quotes about falling in love

I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior. ~Darryl Cherney, quoted in Smithsonian, April 1990



It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ~Mark Twain



Half of my heart is deployed. ~Author Unknown



Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ~Robert Byrne, quoted in 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, 1988



The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her. ~Marcelene Cox



Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~Leonardo DaVinci



If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action. ~Douglas Adams



I just don't know why they're shooting at us. All we want to do is bring them democracy and white bread. Transplant the American dream. Freedom. Achievement. Hyperacidity. Affluence. Flatulence. Technology. Tension. The inalienable right to an early coronary sitting at your desk while plotting to stab your boss in the back. ~Hawkeye, M*A*S*H, "O.R."



A father lives after death in his son. ~Sanskrit



Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished. ~Lord Chesterfield



God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down. ~H. Beerbohm-Tree



If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats. ~Lemony Snicket



A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent



Mediocrity is a hand-rail. ~Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Mes pensees



The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. ~Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939



The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? ~Pablo Casals



It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted. ~George A. Dorsey



Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear! ~Herman Melville



Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. ~Voltaire