quotes about giving up on love

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book



I expanded with the joy of your love and presence but now that you're gone I just feel bloated. ~Carrie Latet



America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~Abraham Lincoln



Drugs have taught an entire generation of American kids the metric system. ~P.J. O'Rourke



Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected. ~Source Unknown



Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. ~Robert S. Lynd



Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says, "I am coming." ~Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Minor Poems, Copa



What lies lurk in kisses. ~Heinrich Heine



The people I'm furious with are the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket. ~Anita Loos, New York Times, 10 February 1974



Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. ~G.K. Chesterton



People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong. ~Bill Vaughan People living deeply have no fear of death. ~Anaiis Nin, Diary, 1967



If men had more up top we'd need less up front. ~Jaci Stephen



I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. ~Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)



Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb, sometimes attributed to William C. Hazlitt



As far as the Moon is concerned, he is always full. ~Terri Guillemets



Quotations for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them. ~James Murray



The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. ~Robert Frost



I'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four. ~Fred Allen



The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. ~Washington Irving



I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life. ~Bill Clinton