short valentines day poems for friends

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms. ~Thomas Bailey Aldrich



There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night. ~Marie de Rabutin-Chantal



He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well. ~English Proverb



Even the gods love jokes. ~Plato



History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils. ~Jacques Barzun, Clio and the Doctors



Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork. ~Harold Lowman



Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts. ~Steve Prefontaine



When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1670



Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast. ~James Bramston, Man of Taste



There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection is the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted. ~Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behaviour



If you are not as close to God as you used to be, who moved? ~Author Unknown



Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. ~Don Marquis



The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service. ~Albert Einstein



He gave her a look you could have poured on a waffle. ~Ring Lardner



Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. ~George Seaton



Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence. ~Attributed to Gene Baylos



Food. Water. Shelter. Air. Sleep. Societal inflation has expanded need into greed. Suddenly the basic survival needs also include a cell phone, cable TV, and French manicured fingernails.... We've become the absolute biggest whiners of all human history with the absolute smallest justification for whining. ~Charlie Diekatze



Writing the first 90 percent of a computer program takes 90 percent of the time. The remaining ten percent also takes 90 percent of the time and the final touches also take 90 percent of the time. ~N.J. Rubenking



Our age will be known as the age of committees. ~Ernest Benn



The men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room. ~J.K. Galbraith, The Age of Uncertainty, 1977