short valentines day poems for friends

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. Successful marriage demands a certain death to self. ~Jerry You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. ~C.S. Lewis You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy. ~Eric Hoffer



Every moment of pleasure in life has to be purchased by an equal moment of pain. ~Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Up the Long Ladder," Danilo O'Dell



There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will. ~Robert Frost



Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. ~Fred Allen



If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark. ~Leopold Fechtner



Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all. ~Helmut Walcha



If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. ~S.I. Hayakawa



The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax. ~Mike Royko, 1981



The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. ~Ross Perot



I'm a curling addict - I need a hit, and I want to get stoned! ~Author Unknown



In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team. ~Luis Suarez



There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further. ~Werner von Braun



Bear ye one another's burdens. ~Galatians 6:2



The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. ~e.e. cummings



He was a "how" thinker, not an "if" thinker. ~Author Unknown



Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade." Instead, learn the trade. ~James Charlton



A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. ~Elbert Hubbard



Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?"