Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thornton Wilder

you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life

Thornton Wilder

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Thornton Wilder

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Thomas Otway

The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.

Thomas Otway

If love be treasure, we'll be wondrous rich.

Thomas Paine

O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her.?Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

Thomas Paine

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Thomas Hood

The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made a dam.

Thomas E. Mann

We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way.

Thomas Browne

Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

Thomas Browne

True affection is a body of enigmas, mysteries and riddles, wherein two so become one that they both become two.

Timothy Leary

Think for yourself and question authority.

Thomas S. Monson

How long has it been since you looked into the eyes of your mother and, holding nothing back, spoke those welcome words, 'Mother, I truly love you'? How about Father, who daily toils to provide for you? Fathers appreciate hearing those same precious words from the lips of a child, 'I love you.'

Thomas S. Monson

The good you have done, the kind words you have spoken, the love you have shown to others, can never be fully measured.

Thomas S. Monson

God’s love is there for you whether or not you feel you deserve love. It is simply always there.

Thomas S. Monson

Love is the very essence of the gospel.

Thomas S. Monson

May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality... First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love.

Thomas Sowell

Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign of our times that everyone talks openly about sex, but we seem to be embarrassed to talk about love.

Robert Morgan

What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me Thine forever, And should I fainting be, Lord, let me never, never Outlive my love for Thee.

Robert Montgomery

The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive.

Robert Menzies

I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.

Robert Indiana

Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril,

Robert Heller

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

Robert H. Schuller

Grace is God's love in action for those who don't deserve it.

Robert H. Schuller

We are the Love, loving.

Vita Sackville-West

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree

Vita Sackville-West

I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves...

Vita Sackville-West

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

Walt Whitman

Now I see that there is no such thing as love unreturn'd. The pay is certain, one way or another.

Walt Whitman

Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another; (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)

Walt Whitman

Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the sun to them, they will open, and bring form, color, perfume, to you; If you become the aliment and the wet, they will become flowers, fruits, tall blanches and trees.

Walt Whitman

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

Walt Whitman

Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long been forgotten by me.