Many Splendid Things

I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing ladies' hands -

 after all, one must start somewhere.  

~Sacha Guitry

“Women and cats will do as they please, 

and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” 

― Robert A. Heinlein

"A self-centered man admitted: "Sure, I know that the Bible says to love our neighbors as ourselves. But frankly, I don't believe that my neighbors can stand all that affection."

Anonymous 

A Bonk on the Head

We begin and began together

When stars collided long ago

Head and tail, me and you

Or vice versa.  Legendary,

Blazing across the sky

Haley’s Comet

Cruising through space,

A remote and familiar

Talisman of ever expanding galaxies,

A meeting of two so young,

Pronouncing the future,

What is meant to be, the pattern set

Then forgotten

An important part of creation

Which not man nor nature may part,

For the evil things can only delay

The inevitable eternal Union

Assisted by angels, who

Have been sent and are

Walking perhaps unnoticed,

Often in fear and pain among us.

Awaken, then my love,

To dream in the

Unfathomable heights

Of night or to be swallowed

In unimaginable depths.

To find that we have been

Born on eagle’s wings

For a time,

Until, becoming less angelic we

See that love truly does exist on this plane

And so does evil.

An encounter with things that

Should not be but are,

We see stars of a different kind.

People who throw kisses are mighty hopelessly lazy.  ~Bob Hope

"Love of country is like love of woman;

 he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good."

Felix Adler

"No one in love is free, or wants to be."

Rock a bye Baby

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.    ~Helen Rowland

Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;

Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more;

A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on,

To make that thousand up a million;

Treble that million, and when that is done,

Let's kisse afresh, as when we first begun.

~Robert Herrick, "To Anthea (III)"

"I was nauseous and tingly all over. . . . 

I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Woody Allen

Patty

Joy of Cooking