love poems by famous poets

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me. ~Mark Twain



There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes. ~Jose Ortega y Gasset



I am fully conscious of the fact, that aphorisms are like wandering Gypsies. They must always be published without guarantee of the authenticity. ~Erkki Melartin



It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller



We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. ~Olin Miller



Most horror movies are certainly that. ~Brendan Francis



When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. ~Ingrid Newkirk



If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too? ~Steven Wright



It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. ~Max Eastman



Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. ~Tennessee Williams



If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today. ~Author Unknown



What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your own mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've certainly learned something about it yourself. ~Douglas Adams



The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself. ~Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, 1953



You're not dumb, or stupid, just thoroughly wrong. ~Jerry Kopke



The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. ~Barry Goldwater



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A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs. ~Joan Welsh



Divorce: The past tense of marriage. ~Author Unknown



Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age. ~Dave Beard