off

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with

~ W.C. Fields

then I think poetic licence is warranted and I may add my own thoughts.

'When the passion subsided and the moment was best
you kissed me gently falling into peaceful loving rest'.

subsided (s)

Natures first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold
Her early leaf's a flower
But only so an hour
Then leaf subsides to leaf
So Eden sank to grief
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay
-Robert Frost

Flowers

Gather the flowers , but spare the buds.

Andrew Marvel

Mr Speaker I smell a rat, I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky, but I'll nip him in the bud.

Sir Boyle Roche

rat(s)

RATS!
They fought the dogs & killed the cats , & bit the babies in the cradle .

Robert Browing

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

Anon

rules

It is much safer to obey than to rule ..

Thomas Kempis

rule

Remember the golden rule. Whoever has the gold makes the rules.

The Wizard of Id

Golden

Sleep is that golden chaine that ties health & our bodies together.

Thomas Dekker

O little town of Bethlehem

How still we see thee lie,

Above thy deep and dreamless sleep

The silent stars go by.

(hymn)

Stars


Each time we have a quarrel
It almost breaks my heart..
Because I'm so afraid..
That we will have to part..
Each night I ask the stars up above..
Why must I be a teenager in love...

-Dion

heart

The way to a man's heart is through his back.

Hey I read this under my Leo horoscope!

Heart

What comes from the heart , goes to the heart .

Samuel T. Coleridge