quotes about unrequited love

A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~Old New York Proverb



The reverse side also has a reverse side. ~Japanese Proverb



That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. ~Ninon de L'Enclos



Conscience warns us before it reproaches us. ~Comtesse Diane (Marie Josephine de Suin de Beausacq), Maximes de la vie, 1908



Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken. ~Bill Dodds



Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor. ~Author Unknown



There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar



Be naughty - save Santa a trip. ~Author Unknown



True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. ~Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld



I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy. ~Estelle R. Ramey



What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. ~Abraham Lincoln



A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion. ~H.L. Mencken



Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. ~Michael Novak



Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS from giving money to television preachers? ~Elayne Boosler



This psychiatry shit, apparently what you're feeling is not what you're feeling and what you're not feeling is your real agenda. ~Frank Renzulli, The Sopranos, "Pax Soprana," original airdate 14 February 1999, spoken by the character Tony Soprano



Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. ~Martin Fowler



To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. ~W. Somerset Maugham



A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be. ~Nicholas de Chamfort



The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. ~Randall Jarrell