valentines day poems for him

We borrowed golf from Scotland as we borrowed whiskey. Not because it is Scottish, but because it is good. ~Horace Hutchinson


No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't. ~Don Rittner


Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. ~Nelson DeMille


The future influences the present just as much as the past. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident. ~Montesquieu


Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are like us." Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are not like us." Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction. ~Charles R. Magel


Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb


And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing. ~Scott Adams


The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. ~Henri Cartier Bresson


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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. ~Ansel Adams


The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. ~Josh Billings


Oaths are the fossils of piety. ~George Santayana


The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion. Jesus belonged to the race of prophets. He saw with open eyes the mystery of the soul. One man was true to what is in you and me. He, as I think, is the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. ~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet CXVI"


Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith. ~Benjamin Harrison


Golf is an ineffectual attempt to put an elusive ball into an obscure hole with implements ill-adapted to the purpose. ~Woodrow Wilson


One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ~Andre Gide


To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year. ~E.B. White, "The Distant Music of the Hounds," The Second Tree from the Corner, 1954