romantic poems for lovers

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God alone. ~William Blake



Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds. ~George Jean Nathan



In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer



Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



A hunter of shadows, himself a shade. ~Homer



The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," 1841



Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work. ~Lemony Snicket



The typical gambler might not really understand the probabilistic nuances of the wheel or the dice, but such things seem a bit more tractable than, say, trying to raise a child in this lunatic society of ours. ~Arthur S. Reber, The New Gambler's Bible



There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently. ~Margaret Smith



I wouldn't be surprised if one day Carl's halo slipped and choked him. ~Allan Wells, referring to Carl Lewis, 1989



I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it. ~Bob Thaves, "Frank & Ernest"



It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. ~Edgar W. Howe



We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. ~Francis Bacon



We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage. ~James Russell Lowell



It is never too late to have a happy childhood. ~Tom Robbins



I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. ~Robert Frost



The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God. ~Meister Eckhart



Someday is not a day of the week. ~Author Unknown



It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God. ~Jean Ingelow