sad love poems for him

Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions. ~Author Unknown



The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive. ~William Ralph Inge



A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If you mess up, 'fess up. ~Author Unknown



Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. ~Katherine Mansfield



We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. ~John Ciardi



The finish line is sometimes merely the symbol of victory. All sorts of personal triumphs take place before that point, and the outcome of the race may actually be decided long before the end. ~Laurence Malone



The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ~Mark Twain, attributed



Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, "More light." Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's Field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light. ~Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider



I got a postcard from my gynecologist. It said, "Did you know it's time for your annual check-up?" No, but now my mailman does. ~Cathy Ladman



What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. ~Karl Menninger



A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships. ~Victoria Secunda



Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it's time to get up. ~Author Unknown



She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. ~Raymond Chandler



How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



History maketh a young man to be old, without either wrinkles or gray hairs; priviledging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof. ~Thomas Fuller



You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet



The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. ~Ezra Pound



Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole. ~Author unknown, supposedly from a Washington Post reader submission word contest in which readers were asked to alter a word by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter and supply a new definition