cute valentine quotes

There is luxury in self-reproach.... When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. ~Oscar Wilde



The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there. ~Monica Baldwin



There are no friends in wartime. ~Frank Burns, "Bug-Out," original airdate 21 September 1976, written by Jim Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum, directed by Gene Reynolds



Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food. ~Anna Fellows Johnston



It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968



Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ~Robert Frost



Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go." ~Alan Redpath



Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires." ~John McSherry



A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. ~Colette



Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims



Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. ~C.C. Colton



Two-lane blacktop isn't a highway - it's an attitude. ~Author Unknown



You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax - tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. ~Pearl Williams



A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. ~Paul Valery, Mauvaises pensees et autres, 1942



I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace. ~Henry James



Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank? ~Walt Whitman Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. ~H.L. Mencken



America is the only country ever founded on the printed word. ~Marshall McLuhan



Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that - as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. ~Charles Dickens