The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
~ Ferdinand Foch
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
~ Nin
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists,
or simulate it where it does not.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal
work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine
and I do like male authority to lean on.
~ Julie Andrews
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain
point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the
imagined, past and future, the communicable and the
incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as
contradictions.
~ Andre Breton
A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
~ George Jean Nathan
Whenever I date a guy, I think, 'Is this the man I want my
children to spend their weekends with?'
~ Rita Rudner
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If you do not change direction, you may end
up where you are heading.
~ Lao Tzu
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in.
Aim at earth and you get neither.
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep
sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
Necessity, the mother of invention.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is a game in which one always cheats.
~ Honore de Balzac
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
~ George Jean Nathan
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
~ Stendhal
You can discover more about a person in an hour
of play than in a year of conversation.
~ Plato
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
~ Erich Segal
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live
without and know we cannot live within.
~ James A. Baldwin
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Love that is not madness is not love.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
We are sometimes as different from ourselves
as we are from others.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men
who have loved her in her youth.
~ Stendhal
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
~ Richard Bach
A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
~ Honore de Balzac
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It
enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and
provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our
lives have already become.
~ C. S. Lewis
When love is not madness, it is not love.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical
limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and
sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue
sky and the blue water.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
