Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elbert Hubbard

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.

Eleanor Roosevelt

After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world, I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time.

Eleanor Roosevelt

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

Eduardo Galeano

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

Edward Abbey

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Edward Abbey

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

Edward Abbey

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

Atom Egoyan

I just think I love the process of making films. It's not tortuous for me at all. I love being with my crew. I love actors. There's a joy to the process.

Aristotle

The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

Aristotle

Love is the cause of unity in all things.

Aristotle

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

Aristotle

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

Aristotle

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Aristotle

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

To love someone is to identify with them.

Aristotle

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Aristotle

Happiness depends on ourselves.

Aristotle

Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.

Aristotle

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

Aristotle

He who hath many friends hath none.

Ben Hecht

Love's the only thing I've thought of or read about since I was knee-high. That's what I always dreamed of, of meeting somebody and falling in love. And when that remarkable thing happened, I was going to recite poetry to her for hours about how her heart's an angel's wing and her hair the strings of a heavenly harp. Instead I got drunk and hollered at her and called her a harpy.

Ben Hecht

Love is a hole in the heart.

Ben Hecht

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

Ben Kingsley

Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.

Ben Harper

There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.

Ben Harper

My choice is what I choose to do and if I'm causing no harm it shouldn't bother you. Your choice is who you choose to be and if you're causin' no harm, then your alright with me.

Ben Harper

You can't just say I love you, you have to LIVE I love you

Ben Harper

I love being on the road, I love playing.