nothing gold can stay poem

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. ~Bruce Lee



Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. ~Virgil A. Kraft



Women who miscalculate are called mothers. ~Abigail Van Buren



The family is a haven in a heartless world. ~Attributed to Christopher Lasch



Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb



The two rules of procrastination: 1) Do it today. 2) Tomorrow will be today tomorrow. ~Author Unknown



But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions? ~Vincent Van Gogh



Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Never ruin an apology with an excuse. ~Kimberly Johnson



We are all parasites; we humans, the greatest. ~Martin H. Fischer



Ellipsis: the omission from a sentence of a word or words that would be required for complete clarity but which can usually be understood from the context. The sequence of three dots (...) used to indicate the omission of some matter in a text.



I don't think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups. ~Rita Rudner I don't think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups. ~Rita Rudner



But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. ~Benjamin Disraeli



To ride a horse is to ride the sky. ~Author Unknown



Dogs eat. Cats dine. ~Ann Taylor



A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone. ~Jo Godwin



The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. ~Woodrow Wilson



Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a Lesbian. ~Fran Lebowitz



Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge. ~Don Kardong



America is the best half-educated country in the world. ~Nicholas Murray Butler