quotes on valentines

A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart. ~Author Unknown



A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys. ~Michael Oakeshott, On History



It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology. ~Leopold von Ranke, History of the Popes



I did not fully understand the dread term "terminal illness" until I saw Heathrow for myself. ~Dennis Potter, 1978



Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. ~Charles Dickens



As the print of the seal on the wax is the express image of the seal itself, so Christ is the express image - the perfect representation of God. ~St Ambrose



A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment. ~Duke of Endinburgh



Food is like sex: when you abstain, even the worst stuff begins to look good. ~Beth McCollister



The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself. ~James B. Herrick



Women like silent men. They think they're listening. ~Marcel Achard, Quote, 4 November 1956



If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. ~Doug Larson



War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle, 1855



History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. ~Thomas Jefferson



An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. ~Mahatma Gandhi



Different isn't always better, but better is always different. ~Author Unknown



I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. ~Galileo Galilei



The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky - seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness. ~Joseph Conrad



Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. ~Life's Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



Efficiency is intelligent laziness. ~David Dunham