love poems sad

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower. ~Jean Paul Richter



Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. ~Mark Twain



When friends tell you how awesome you look, drop the "I still have more to go" crap. You worked hard and you deserve the compliment! ~Jillian Michaels



And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ~Abraham Lincoln



The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. ~Robert Brault



Art is not a thing; it is a way. ~Elbert Hubbard



Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. ~Jane Austen



But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Gifts," Essays, Second Series, 1844



Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. ~Lin Yutang



I say there are spots that don't come off.... Spots that never come off, d'you know what I mean? ~J.K. Rowling, "The Egg and The Eye," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Mad-Eye Moody



Nature is my medicine. ~Sara Moss-Wolfe



Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. ~Lord Chesterfield



A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. ~Arnold H. Glasgow



Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old. ~Mary H. Waldrip



How can the Church be received as a trustworthy guide in the invisible, which falls into so many errors in the visible? ~John W. Draper



The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt



If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina. ~H.L. Mencken



What's done to children, they will do to society. ~Karl Menninger



I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport.... ~Amy Johnson



Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game. ~Burt Shotten