Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Frost

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Robert Frost

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

Robert Frost

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

Robert Frost

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

Robert Frost

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

Robert Frost

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Robert Bly

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Rita Mae Brown

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

Rita Hayworth

When you're in love you're living, you matter.

Rita Rudner

I knew so little about money I used to sign my check, "Love, Rita."

Rita Rudner

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

Rita Rudner

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

Rita Rudner

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Mae Brown

I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.

Rita Mae Brown

A narcissism shared by two.

Rita Mae Brown

I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.

Rita Mae Brown

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Rita Mae Brown

You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.

Rita Mae Brown

Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.

Rita Mae Brown

Love is the wild card of existence.

Rita Mae Brown

Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.

Rita Mae Brown

Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.

Rita Mae Brown

Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.

Rick Mercer

The Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you. But if you vote for them you're throwing your vote away.

Rick Moody

Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs me over, that every low, mean syllable uttered in my direction seems to intimate the violence of murder, that every family seems like an opportunity for ruin and every marriage a ceremony into which calamity will fall and hearts will be broken and lives destroyed and people branded by the mortifications of love?

Richard Wagner

...you know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never...

There are fewer ways of making love than they say, and more than one believes.

Rene Descartes

When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

Thornton Wilder

You swore you loved me, and laughed and warned me that you would not love me forever. I did not hear you. You were speaking in a language I did not understand. Never, never, I can conceive of a love which is able to foresee its own termination. Love is its own eternity. Love is in every moment of its being: all time. It is the only glimpse we are permitted of what eternity is. So I did not hear you. The words were nonsense.

Thornton Wilder

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.