Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.

Samuel Johnson

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

Samuel Johnson

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

Samuel Johnson

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Samuel Johnson

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Sam Worthington

Most actors go, I read the script and fell in love with it; I fall in love with the directors.

Sam Altman

It's better to have a few users love your product than for a lot of users to sort of like it.

Ryan Giggs

I hope this match never ends. When the match ends, the memories begin.

Ryan Gosling

Parents' tolerance of violence is so different to their tolerance of sexuality. If violence is involved in the sexuality it's somehow perceived as entertainment, but if love is involved with sexuality it's seen as pornographic and is not acceptable.

Ruth Graham

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Rumer Godden

If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love ...

Rufus Wainwright

I love being not cool.

Rowan Williams

In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.

Robert Jordan

Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever.

Robert Jordan

Love is an odd thing. As odd a thing as there is.

Robert Jordan

I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.

Robert K. Greenleaf

Love without laughter can be grim and oppressive. Laughter without love can be derisive and venomous. Together they make for greatness of spirit.

Robert James Waller

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

Robert Jeffress

While love is one of God's attributes, it's not his only attribute. God is also holy and just.

Rodney Atkins

I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love.

Rodney Dangerfield

It would be great if people never got angry at someone for doing something they've done themselves.

Rodney Dangerfield

My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.

Roberto Bolano

Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better

Robertson Davies

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.

Robertson Davies

That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a decent woman would have been-no, she had yielded because a man wanted her. The subject was not one that could be freely discussed even among intimates, but it was understood without saying that if women began to yield for such reasons as that, marriage and society would not last long. Any man who spoke up for Mrs Dempster probably believed in Free Love. Certainly he associated sex with pleasure, and that put him in a class with filthy thinkers like Cece Athelstan.

Robertson Davies

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Robertson Davies

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

Robertson Davies

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Robert Solow

It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is not that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.

Robert Sternberg

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Southwell

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live.

Robert Southey

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

Robert Southey

The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.