Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Seinfeld

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

Jerome K. Jerome

It's really extraordinary what a variety of ways of loving there must be. We all do it as it was never done before.

Jerome K. Jerome

Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection.

Jerome K. Jerome

When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.

Jerome K. Jerome

Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.

Jerome K. Jerome

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

Jerome K. Jerome

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

Jerome K. Jerome

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jeffrey Eugenides

If you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative.

Jeffrey Eugenides

The perishable nature of love is what gives love its profound importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.

Jeffrey Eugenides

We value love not because it's stronger than death but because it's weaker. Say what you want about love: death will finish it. You will not go on loving in the grave, not in any physical way that will at all resemble love as we know it on earth. The perishable nature of love is what gives love its importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

Jim Bishop

True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds - a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.

Jesse McCartney

I love a girl that can make me laugh. I am not really a laugh-at-things type of guy and I don't smile and laugh all the time... But if a girl can make me laugh... I'm in love!!!!

Jesse Jackson

You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.

Jennifer Lopez

You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.

Jennifer Lopez

Always remember, you will live, you will love, you will dance again.

Jennifer Lopez

For me, love is the never-ending question. It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and complications.

Jeff Foxworthy

You might be a redneck if you're moved to tears every time you hear Dolly Parton singing I Will Always Love You.

Jean Kerr

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Jean Giraudoux

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

Jean Houston

In a world such as ours, where we have to cross the great divide of otherness or we will not survive, love is perhaps the most critical aspect that is there in our humanity, to both activate and to practice.

Jean Houston

We are the love, the lover, the loving, and the love. It is the Supreme. It is the deepest force in our lives.

Jim Burns

Do your kids a favor: Love your spouse.

James Carville

There's a simple doctrine. Outside of a person's love the most sacred thing they can give is their labor. Labor is a very precious thing you have and any time you can combined labor and love you've really made a match.

Jamelia

I really, really love being a mum and I absolutely love being a singer so I couldn't be happier.

James A. Michener

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

James A. Garfield

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

James A. Baldwin

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

James A. Baldwin

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

James A. Baldwin

The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.

James A. Baldwin

Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love.