Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killing the object of its love so that it may be removed once and for all from the wicked game of change: for love dreads change even more than annihilation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

George Burns

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Bernard Shaw

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

George Bernard Shaw

Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

George Bernard Shaw

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.

George Bernard Shaw

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

George Bernard Shaw

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

George Bernard Shaw

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

George Bernard Shaw

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?

George Bernard Shaw

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

George Bernard Shaw

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Gelett Burgess

Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.

Gelett Burgess

Love endeth like the chianti flask, its drops are bitter.

Gelett Burgess

No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.

Gelett Burgess

Hurry not a woman's favor; neither forcer her hastily to surrender to thee. For she goeth into love as she goeth into the waters at the seashore; first a hand and then a lip goeth she in by littles. She diveth not, she leapeth not from the pier; but by gentle shocks and cries of protest she entereth slowly; yet when the waters of love encompass her, then she is supported. She swimmeth in her joy; she floateth on the tide of happiness.

Gelett Burgess

A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.

Gelett Burgess

Son, if a maiden love thee, thou shalt appear handsome in her sight; she shall praise thine eyes, and the corners of thy mouth, yea, she shall admire thy hands. Though thou wert even as the orangutan yet shall she paint thee with fancies.

Fredric March

Keep interested in others, keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young

Frederick William Faber

Love's secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.

Frederick William Robertson

Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.

Fred Astaire

Why didn't you tell me i was in love with you?

Franz Kafka

[Love] has as few problems as a motocar. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.

Franz Kafka

Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who loves himself within the limits of the world.

Franz Kafka

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Franz Kafka

The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

Franz Kafka

There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.

Franz Kafka

I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.