famous quotes about life and love

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage. ~Doug Larson


True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. ~Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld


Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. ~Ludwig van Beethoven


Lost time is never found again. ~Benjamin Franklin


Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. ~Tom Stoppard


A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ~George Santayana


Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one. ~W.C. Fields


Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. ~Seneca


What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace. ~Agnes M. Pahro


Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident. ~P.J. O'Rourke


There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965


Wine is bottled poetry. ~Robert Louis Stevenson


Don't vote, it only encourages them. ~Author Unknown


I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me. ~Charles Lamb


Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ~William Feather Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ~William Feather Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ~William Feather


One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb


My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict. ~Rabindranath Tagore


We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. ~Nick Faldo


Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen? ~Thomas Carlyle, "Sartor Resartus"