love poems for a mom

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb



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



All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. ~Havelock Ellis



I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. ~Tracy Chapman



No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. ~Samuel Johnson



Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel



Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. ~Tryon Edwards



The faith that stands on authority is not faith. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered. ~Robin Tyler



Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us. ~Christopher Andrea



Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt. ~Terri Guillemets



Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular - with some justification, unfortunately - consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce. ~Lloyd Alexander



Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by. ~Stephen Baker



Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. ~William Hazlitt, On the Clerical Character, 1819



My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. ~Aldous Huxley



There is just one life for each of us: our own. ~Euripides



Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. ~Alan Coren



I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable. ~Sherry Glaser