Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Henrik Ibsen

Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.

Henri Matisse

In love, the one who runs away is the winner.

Henri Matisse

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

Henri Nouwen

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

Henri Nouwen

Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say to God: 'I love you, too.'

Henri Nouwen

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Henri Nouwen

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.

Henri Nouwen

Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.

Hiawatha

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

Heywood Broun

The ablity to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.

Herve Villechaize

I love you all too much, it's one of just of my problems.

Hesiod

Love those who love you, help those you help you, and give to those who give to you.

Hesiod

Love, the fairest among the undying gods, who loosens the limbs of all gods and men, conquers resolve and prudent counsel within the breast.

Henry Ford

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Helen Prejean

Lavish love on others receive it gratefully when it come to you. Cultivate friendship like a garden. It is the best love of all.

Helen Rowland

Love is woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. It is a game at which men must play against stacked cards, and without the slightest inkling of the trump.

Helen Rowland

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Helen Rowland

Soft, sweet things with a lot of fancy dressing - that's what a little boy loves to eat and a grown man prefers to marry.

Helen Rowland

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

Helen Rowland

There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.

Helen Rowland

Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

Helen Rowland

Love: woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall.

Helen Rowland

Love will never be ideal until man recovers from the illusion that he can be just a little bit faithful or a little bit married.

Helen Rowland

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

Helen Rowland

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.

Helen Rowland

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Helen Rowland

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Helen Rowland

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Helen Rowland

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

Helen Rowland

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

Helen Rowland

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

Helen Rowland

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.