Quotations

It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. - Unknown



Don’t create a problem for which you do not have the answer – Burke



No prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only awarded for building arks. - Unknown



You can learn many things from children…. Like how much patience you have. - Unknown



If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollar – J Paul Getty



There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them – Heisenberg



Don’t marry for money; You can borrow it cheaper – Scottish proverb



It is better on the ground wishing you were flying, than vice versa. - Unknown



If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
* Michel de Montaigne



Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
* Oscar Wilde



You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
* Henry Adams



When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
* Joseph Campbell



Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge



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



Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead;
It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
* Pierre Corneille



Pleasure of love lasts but a moment,
Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
* Jean Pierre Claris De Florian



Unable are the Loved to die
For Love is Immortality.
* Emily Dickinson



Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
* Isak Dinesen



It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
* Lawrence Durrell



Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
* Havelock Ellis



Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
* Louise Erdrich



Love must not touch the marrow of the soul.
Our affections must be breakable chains that we
can cast them off or tighten them.
* Euripedes



It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
* F. Scott Fitzgerald



Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
* Benjamin Franklin



Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
* Erich Fromm



Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
* Goncourt



They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.
* Graham Greene



The love we give away is the only love we keep.
* Elbert Hubbard



We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
* Jacques Jacques Maritain



Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
* Jean Kerr



However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
* François Duc de La Rochefoucauld



True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
* François Duc de La Rochefoucauld



To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
* Charles A. Lindbergh



There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
* Martin Luther



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



Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
* Langdon Mitchell



Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
* Thomas Moore



Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
* Napoleon I



There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
* Friedrich Nietzsche



This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.
* Friedrich Nietzsche



I got to kiss her and say 'I love you' and 'Have a nice trip.'
* Cheryl O'Brien



Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him,
Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.
* Ovid



Love, free as air at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
* Alexander Pope



Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
* French Proverb



Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
* Bertrand Russell



We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
* Madame De Staël



There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
* George Bernard Shaw



Friends are born, not made.
* Henry Adams



Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
* Aristotle



Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
* Albert Camus



It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson



Real friendship is shown in times of trouble;
prosperity is full of friends.
* Euripedes



No man can be happy w