valentines day love quotes

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go. ~Ramsey Clark



If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family. ~Berke Breathed, Bloom County Babylon



Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. ~Bradley Millar



I am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech. ~Nancie J. Carmody



If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Dogen



You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu



Tea is liquid wisdom. ~Anonymous



Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else. ~Author Unknown



When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894



Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart. ~Russell Page



When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. ~Samuel Johnson



Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ~Elbert Hubbard



Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities. ~Paul Eldridge, Maxims for a Modern Man



Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did. ~Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe



The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears. ~Bill Vaughn



How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive? ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, spoken by the character Homer Simpson



Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. ~Hannah Arendt



You know you live in Phoenix when you are willing to park 3 blocks away because you actually found shade from a palm tree imported 300 miles from California and nurtured with water piped 250 miles from Nevada. ~Author Unknown



It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating little friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more. ~Agnes Repplier