quotes on love

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. ~H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956



When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. ~Mark Rutherford



Health is a relationship between you and your body. ~Terri Guillemets



A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot. ~John Steinbeck



Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister. ~Alice Walker



Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb



The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. ~Gloria Leonard



God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. ~St. Augustine



Decaf? No, it's dangerous to dilute my caffeine stream. ~Author Unknown



A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours. ~Ray Fitzgerald, in Boston Glove, 1970



Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. ~Aaron Levenstein



This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anyone could have. ~Author Unknown



It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. ~G.K. Chesterton It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment. ~Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning



Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. ~Albert Schweitzer



We have always had reluctance to see a tract of land which is empty of men as anything but a void. The "waste howling wilderness" of Deuteronomy is typical. The Oxford Dictionary defines wilderness as wild or uncultivated land which is occupied "only" by wild animals. Places not used by us are "wastes." Areas not occupied by us are "desolate." Could the desolation be in the soul of man? ~John A. Livingston, in Borden Spears, ed., Wilderness Canada, 1970



A lot of guys think the larger a woman's breasts are, the less intelligent she is. I don't think it works like that. I think it's the opposite. I think the larger a woman's breasts are, the less intelligent the men become. ~Anita Wise



Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't. ~George Bernard Shaw



When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then. ~John Oliver Hobbes



In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage. ~Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, 1986



But fate ordains that dearest friends must part. ~Edward Young