love and happiness quotes

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. ~Samuel Johnson



In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. ~Simone de Beauvoir



Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. ~Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero-Worship



Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason. ~Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion



A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye. ~Anthelme Brillat-Savarin A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline. ~Herbert B. Prochnow



I love sewing and have plenty of material witnesses. ~Author Unknown



A great artist is always before his time or behind it. ~George Moore



Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak. ~John Donne



There is nothing more dangerous than history used as a defense, or history used for preaching; history used as a tool is no longer history. ~Marcel Trudel



If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles. ~Benjamin Franklin



There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house. ~Joe Ryan



Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone. ~Georg Simmel



I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. ~Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu, Pensees Diverses



These blessed candles of the night. ~William Shakespeare, referring to stars, Merchant of Venice



Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. ~Barry Switzer



It's double the giggles and double the grins, and double the trouble if you're blessed with twins. ~Author Unknown



Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility. ~Stephen Baker



Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld



Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky