funny quotes on love

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. ~Ray Bradbury, The Golden Apples of the Sun



Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them. ~Confucius, Analects



He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. ~B.C. Forbes



The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. ~Colin Wilson



Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. ~Agnes Repplier



TV a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. ~Goodman Ace



There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. ~Robert Graves, 1962 interview on BBC-TV, based on a very similar statement he overheard around 1955



Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu



Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. ~Harriet Nelson



Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. Rumors circulate around the schoolyard: kids who draw or wear white socks and bring violins to school on Wednesdays might have cooties. I confess to having yielded to these pressures. ~Chris Van Allsburg



A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. ~Ansel Adams



Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. ~Tennessee Williams, "The Rose Tattoo"



There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death. ~Fran Lebowitz



We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Fear makes us feel our humanity. ~Benjamin Disraeli



An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. ~Rod Laver



In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. ~Jose Narosky



Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once a week. ~George Bernard Shaw