valentines day romantic poems

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. ~Washington Irving



It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854



If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe. ~Carl Sagan



There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been! ~Percy Bysshe Shelley



America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos. ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949



To me faith means not worrying. ~John Dewey



Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ~Arthur C. Clarke



Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. ~Carl Sandburg, "Arithmetic"



Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein



Nutrimentum spiritus (food for the soul). ~Berlin Royal Library, inscription



A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The best way to get something done is to begin. ~Author Unknown



Anthologies of aphorisms are usually arranged according to themes.... This is not the best method for the aphorism, because it often has several themes and interpretations. ~Markku Envall



The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. ~Jean Paul Richter



If it can't be fixed by duct tape or WD-40, it's a female problem. ~Jason Love



The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words. ~National Review



Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ~Pablo Picasso



Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. ~Amy Lowell



Silence is more musical than any song. ~Christina Rossetti



To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness. ~Henri Frederic Amiel