Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.
~ Albert Einstein
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
~ Mother Teresa
The
moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called Love and
feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that
for you the world is transformed.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
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.
~ Thomas Fuller
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.”
~ Lao Tzu
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.
~ C. S. Lewis
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
~ Lao Tzu
Necessity, the mother of invention.
~ Plato
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.
~ Thomas Aquinas
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
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
~ Audrey Hepburn
The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
The
fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which
obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one
gives rise is not the passion of the other.
~ Honore de Balzac
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
~ Victor Hugo
The
hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim
twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel
that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen
thee and thou art enough.
~ George Edward Moore
I ‘ve got a good right hook.
~ Julie Andrews
Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
~ Honore de Balzac
Love doesn’t sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.
~ Og Mandino
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I
believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only
because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
~ C. S. Lewis
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
~ Stendhal
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
We
are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It
is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
We loved with a love that was more than love.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
~ Tom Robbins
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
~ Pearl Bailey
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
~ Emily Bronte
