Decent Quotes

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ~Stephen Leacock

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.  ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Are we not like two volumes of one book?  ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.  ~Ben Hecht

Without love, what are we worth?  Eighty-nine cents!  Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.  ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye

Grow old with me!  The best is yet to be.  ~Robert Browning

Who, being loved, is poor?  ~Oscar Wilde

kisses are a better fate
than wisdom.
~e.e. cummings

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.  ~William Shakespeare

Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day’s Saint Valentine’s.
For that good bishop’s sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.
~Michael Drayton

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, “Outside the Dog Museum”

I claim there ain’t
Another Saint
As great as Valentine.
~Ogden Nash

For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.  ~Albert Einstein

Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939

One night I had a dream

I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord
and across the sky flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene I noticed two sets of footprints,
one belonged to me and the other to the Lord.
When the last scene of my life flashed before me,
I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
I noticed that many times along the path of my life,
there was only one set of footprints.
I also noticed that it happened at the very lowest
and saddest times in my life.
This really bothered me and I questioned the Lord about it.
“Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you,
you would walk with me all the way,
but I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life
there is only one set of footprints.
“I don’t understand why in times when I needed you most,
you should leave me.”
The Lord replied, “My precious, precious child,
I love you and I would never, never leave you
during your times of trial and suffering.
“When you saw only one set of footprints,
it was then that I carried you.”

A special world for you and me
A special bond one cannot see
It wraps us up in its cocoon
And holds us fiercely in its womb.

Its fingers spread like fine spun gold
Gently nestling us to the fold
Like silken thread it holds us fast
Bonds like this are meant to last.

And though at times a thread may break
A new one forms in its wake
To bind us closer and keep us strong
In a special world, where we belong.

- Sheelagh Lennon -