Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.

Henry Ward Beecher

Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.

Henry Ward Beecher

Love, in this world, is like a seed taken from the tropics, and planted where the winter comes too soon; and it cannot spread itself in flower-clusters and wide-twining vines, so that the whole air is filled with the perfume thereof. But there is to be another summer for it yet. Care for the root now, and God will care for the top by and by.

Henry Ward Beecher

Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.

Henry Ward Beecher

Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

Henry Ward Beecher

When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.

Henry Ward Beecher

Earthly love is a brief and penurious stream, which only flows in spring, with a long summer drought. The change from a burning desert, treeless, springless, drear, to green fields and blooming orchards in June, is slight in comparison with that from the desert of this world's affection to the garden of God, where there is perpetual, tropical luxuriance of blessed love.

Henry Ward Beecher

Loving is like music. Some instruments can go up two octaves, some four, and some all the way from black thunder to sharp lightning. As some of them are susceptible only of melody, so some hearts can sing but one song of love, while others will fun in a full choral harmony.

Henry Ward Beecher

Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.

Henry Ward Beecher

Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you nave gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths--not until then can you know what love is.

Henry Ward Beecher

The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.

Henry Ward Beecher

There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will have its wind-flower, and every crevice a leaf; while from the fertile soil will be reared a gorgeous troop of growths, that will carry their life in ten thousand forms, but all with praise to God. And so it is when the soul knows its summer. Love redeems its weakness, clothes its barrenness, enriches its poverty, and makes its very desert to bud and blossom as the rose.

Henry James

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

Henry James

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Henry James

And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.

Henry Drummond

On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.

Henry Drummond

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.

Henry Drummond

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Cloud

Things don't change in a marriage until the spouse who is taking responsibility for a problem that is not hers decides to say or do something about it.

Henry Cloud

Marriage is not slavery. It is based on a love relationship deeply rooted in freedom. Each partner is free from the other and therefore free to love the other. Where there is control, or perception of control, there is not love. Love only exists where there is freedom.

Henry Fielding

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

Henry Fielding

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Henry Fielding

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Henry Fielding

Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman's lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.

Henry Fielding

Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love.

Henry Fielding

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Henry Fielding

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Henry Fielding

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Heinz Fischer

I declare myself an Austrian and a European. A united Europe will be a peaceful Europe.

John Knowles

What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.