quotes about summer love

I believe in God; I just don't trust anyone who works for him. ~Author Unknown



It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words - almost as though one were inventing them. ~Rupert Hart-Davis



Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. ~Lin Yutang



In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman. ~Abel Hermant, Le Bourgeois, 1906



The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation. ~G.R. Elton, The Practice of History



Don't learn safety by accident. ~Author Unknown



I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. ~Jean Cocteau



To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God. ~Victor Hugo



I'm on a 90-day wonder diet. Thus far, I've lost 45 days. ~Author Unknown



Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own. ~Bertrand Russell, What I Believe, 1925



It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. ~Alistair Cooke



You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~Author Unknown



Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage. ~Author Unknown



To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart. ~W. Macneile Dixon



A show of envy is an insult to oneself. ~Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko



Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness. ~Bill Griffith, Griffith Observatory comic strip, 1977



I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Love makes time pass; time makes love pass. ~French Proverb



Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Always tell the truth. Even if you have to make it up. ~Author Unknown