quotes for lovers

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. ~Groucho Marx



One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one. ~D.H. Lawrence



Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld



Seven days of no swimming makes one weak. ~Author Unknown



Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! ~Wallace Stevens



To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink. ~J.B. Priestley, The Good Companions, 1928



We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves. ~Langston Hughes



More men are killed by overwork than the importance of this world justifies. ~Rudyard Kipling



If the world was flat I'd probably swim off it. ~Author Unknown



While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. ~Samuel Johnson



The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright



Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that. ~Golda Meir



Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. ~Fran Lebowitz



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



There is no substitute for mother's milk. ~Martin H. Fischer



One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. ~E.M. Forster



Some defeats are more triumphant than victories. ~Montaigne, Essays, 1588



Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country! ~Daniel Webster