i will love you forever poems

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something. ~Auguste Strindberg, Miss Julie, 1888



And as the seasons come and go, here's something you might like to know. There are fairies everywhere: under bushes, in the air, playing games just like you play, singing through their busy day. So listen, touch, and look around - in the air and on the ground. And if you watch all nature's things, you might just see a fairy's wing. ~Author Unknown



Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. ~G.C. Lichtenberg



I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. ~Frank Sinatra



If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken. ~Idries Shah



The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind. ~Charles Francis Adams



A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order than any other, because the pupils do not know who she's looking at. ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902



The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem. ~Aaron Kilbourn



Law never made men a whit more just. ~Henry David Thoreau



No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. ~Russell Lynes



Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence. ~Rosalynn Carter



History is the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity. ~Robert S. Lynd



Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance. ~Robert Quillen



Skipping: the ultimate display of nonconformity. ~Jessi Lane Adams



Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow. ~Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You



Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. ~Samuel Johnson



When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



A friend is a brother who was once a bother. ~Author Unknown