Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

George Bernard Shaw

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

George Bernard Shaw

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?

George Bernard Shaw

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

George Bernard Shaw

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Gelett Burgess

Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.

Gelett Burgess

Love endeth like the chianti flask, its drops are bitter.

Gelett Burgess

No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.

Gelett Burgess

Hurry not a woman's favor; neither forcer her hastily to surrender to thee. For she goeth into love as she goeth into the waters at the seashore; first a hand and then a lip goeth she in by littles. She diveth not, she leapeth not from the pier; but by gentle shocks and cries of protest she entereth slowly; yet when the waters of love encompass her, then she is supported. She swimmeth in her joy; she floateth on the tide of happiness.

Gelett Burgess

A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.

Gelett Burgess

Son, if a maiden love thee, thou shalt appear handsome in her sight; she shall praise thine eyes, and the corners of thy mouth, yea, she shall admire thy hands. Though thou wert even as the orangutan yet shall she paint thee with fancies.

Fredric March

Keep interested in others, keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young

Frederick William Faber

Love's secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.

Frederick William Faber

The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold?

Frederick William Robertson

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

Frederick William Robertson

Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.

Fred Astaire

Why didn't you tell me i was in love with you?

Franz Kafka

[Love] has as few problems as a motocar. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.

Franz Kafka

Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who loves himself within the limits of the world.

Franz Kafka

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Franz Kafka

The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

Franz Kafka

Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

Franz Kafka

There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.

Franz Kafka

I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.

Franz Kafka

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

Erich Maria Remarque

We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

Erich Fromm

. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine . . . It is not enough that men are not slaves; if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death.

Erich Fromm

There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word love. It has been preached by those who were ready to condone every cruelty if it served their purpose; it has been used as a disguise under which to force people into sacrificing their own happiness, into submitting their whole self to those who profited from this surrender. [...] It has been made so empty that for many people love may mean no more than that two people have lived together for twenty years just without fighting more often than once a week.

Erich Fromm

Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.

Erich Fromm

Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.

Erich Fromm

Love is a power which produces love.

Erich Fromm

Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.

Erich Fromm

I need you because I love you.