quotes about true love

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. ~Tryon Edwards



Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ~William Makepeace Thackeray



We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732



What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. ~Aldous Huxley



Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters. ~Anne Hollander



There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton



Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. ~Edna Ferber



The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity. ~Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon



Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all. ~Bob Lemon, 1977



Jesus saves... passes to Moses... shoots... scores! ~Author Unknown



The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. ~Arthur Schopenhauer



Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ~Margaret Fuller



There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provincialism. ~Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay, 1923



Every man is the architect of his own fortune. ~Sallust



You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. ~John Wooden



A simple and irrefutable argument to knock creationism on its ass: (1) Humans are a mistake - subproof: opposable thumbs and enlarged brain capacity are the combined number one factor in the increasingly speedy destruction of planet Earth. (2) God doesn't make mistakes. (3) Therefore, God couldn't have created people. ~Cassus Garrulitas



Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ~Norman Cousins



Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. ~Robert Orben