happy valentines day quotes for a friend

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. ~John Louis von Neumann



Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. ~Lord Acton



Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. ~Jessamyn West



Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. ~Winston Churchill



W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only cumbrous name, the names of the others being monosyllabic. This advantage of the Roman alphabet over the Grecian is the more valued after audibly spelling out some simple Greek word, like "epixoriambikos." Still, it is now thought by the learned that other agencies than the difference of the two alphabets may have been concerned in the decline of "the glory that was Greece" and the rise of "the grandeur that was Rome." There can be no doubt, however, that by simplifying the name of W (calling it "wow," for example) our civilization could be, if not promoted, at least better endured. ~Ambrose Bierce



Art hath an enemy called ignorance. ~Ben Jonson



The plague of government is senile delinquency. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



The first step... shall be to lose the way. ~Galway Kinnell



Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other. ~Rene Yasenek



I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did. ~Benjamin Harrison



Fate, Chance, God's Will - we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens, will merge on a windowpane? Gotta be Fate. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life. ~Charles Dickens



The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ~Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire



You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon. ~David Lloyd George



There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first. ~Adela Rogers St. Johns



Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality. ~Emily Dickinson



A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to. ~Louis J. Camuti



Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. ~Graham Greene



When Hell freezes over, I'll curl there, too. ~Author Unknown



Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not! ~Author Unknown



Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin