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Love4 quotes
"Nothing-so it seems to me," said the stranger, "is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life... The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of—of things longer." — Jerome K. Jerome · 1908She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. — J.D. Salinger · 1948The tragedy of love is indifference. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1921What a silly thing Love is!...It is not half as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. — Oscar Wilde · 1888Men and women3 quotes
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. — Oscar Wilde · 1891If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry. — O. Henry · 1906Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Truth3 quotes
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth. — Leo Tolstoy · 1855The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. — Nadine Gordimer · 1963Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction...For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it. — G.K. Chesterton · 1905Women3 quotes
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Women and elephants never forget an injury. — Saki · 1904If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry. — O. Henry · 1906America2 quotes
The almighty dollar, that great object of universal veneration throughout our land. — Washington Irving · 1836America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. — John Updike · 1972Australia2 quotes
And the sun sank again on the grand Australian bush-the nurse and tutor of eccentric minds, the home of the weird, and of much that is different from things in other lands. — Henry Lawson · 1892We are dealing with an exceptionally astute and dangerous man...one of the most unscrupulous rascals that Australia has ever evolved—and for a young country it has turned out some very finished types. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1911Being in love2 quotes
My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. — James Joyce · 1914She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. — J.D. Salinger · 1948Human nature2 quotes
Everything has its limit—iron ore cannot be educated into gold. — Mark Twain · 1906There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes. — Mark Twain · 1910Inflection points2 quotes
There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go-if there are no doors or windows-he walks through a wall. — Bernard Malamud · 1973It was at the highest point in the arc of a bridge that I became aware suddenly of the depth and bitterness of my feelings about modern life, and of the profoundness of my yearning for a more vivid, simple, and peaceable world. — John Cheever · 1978Nature of God2 quotes
There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion. It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1893God made man, without man's consent, and made his nature, too; made it vicious instead of angelic, and then said, Be angelic, or I will punish you and destroy you. But no matter, God is responsible for everything man does, all the same; He can't get around that fact. There is only one Criminal, and it is not man. — Mark Twain · 1910Nature of truth2 quotes
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. — Nadine Gordimer · 1963Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction...For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it. — G.K. Chesterton · 1905Youth2 quotes
I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more—the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort—to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires—and expires, too soon, too soon—before life itself. — Joseph Conrad · 1898There's nothing so dangerous as sitting still. You've only got one life, one youth, and you can let it slip through your fingers if you want to; nothing easier. Most people do that. — Willa Cather · 1912Aging1 quote
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920Aliens1 quote
I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. — Arthur C. Clarke · 1951American capitalism1 quote
The almighty dollar, that great object of universal veneration throughout our land. — Washington Irving · 1836Apologies1 quote
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. — P.G. Wodehouse · 1910Art1 quote
We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. — Henry James · 1893Beauty of nature1 quote
There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion. It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1893Black resilience1 quote
They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own. — William Faulkner · 1942Body and soul1 quote
The body, she says, is subject to the forces of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure. — Saul Bellow · 1984Books1 quote
If a book is well written, I always find it too short. — Jane Austen · 1817Carpe diem1 quote
There's nothing so dangerous as sitting still. You've only got one life, one youth, and you can let it slip through your fingers if you want to; nothing easier. Most people do that. — Willa Cather · 1912Charity1 quote
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. — Jack London · 1907Comedy1 quote
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. — James Thurber · 1953Confoundment1 quote
It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1891Contradiction1 quote
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. — H.P. Lovecraft · 1928Conversation1 quote
Conversation... Is the art of never appearing a bore, of knowing how to say everything interestingly, to entertain with no matter what, to be charming with nothing at all. — Guy de Maupassant · 1876Convictions1 quote
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920Creation1 quote
We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. — Henry James · 1893Creativity1 quote
We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. — Henry James · 1893