Famous Quotes P10

• 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. - Anais 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

• Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love. - Leo Buscaglia

• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. - Peter Ustinov

• Love is a game that two can play and both win. - Eva Gabor

• Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. - George Bernard Shaw

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

• Love is all we have; the only way that each can help the other. Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. - James A. Baldwin

• Love does not dominate; it cultivates. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire

• Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. - Barbara de Angelis

• Life is the flower for which love is the honey. - Victor Hugo

• Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. - Khalil Gibran

• Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. - David Grayson

• Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion. - Javan

• Love conquers all. - Virgil

• Love consists in this that two solitude’s protect and touch and greet each other. - Rainer Maria Rilke

• Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you. ‘Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ - Erich Fromm

• In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. - Erich Fromm

• It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. - Miguel de Unamuno

• It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office - Shirley MacLaine

• Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. - Mother Teresa

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

• When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. - Natalie Clifford Barney

• Where there is great love, there are always wishes. - Willa Cather

• If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. - A. A. Milne

• If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. - Michel de Montaigne

• If you want to be loved, be lovable. - Ovid

• I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. - Theodore Dreiser

• I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. - Judy Garland

• I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. - Daphne Rae

• I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. - George Eliot

• I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. - J. D. Salinger

• If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. - Emmet Fox

• Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. - Richard Bach

• To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. - Lao Tzu

• First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. - George Bernard Shaw

• For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. - Judy Garland

• Fortune and love favor the brave. - Ovid

• Friendship is Love without his wings! - Lord Byron

• Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. - Charles Caleb Colton

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

• How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. - Barbara Pym

• The more one judges, the less one loves. - Honore de Balzac

• What is really beautiful must always be true. - Stendhal

• That which does not kill us makes us stronger. - Friedrich Nietzsche

• I drink to make other people interesting. - George Jean Nathan

• One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

• I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. - Rita Rudner

• Come live in my heart, and pay no rent. - Samuel Lover

• Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. - Julie Andrews

• I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. - Rita Rudner

• Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. - C. S. Lewis

• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. - C. S. Lewis

• I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams… Man… is above all the plaything of his memory. - Andre Breton

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