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“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” – Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

“Dancing is silent poetry.” – Simonides (556-468bc)

“The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.” – Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

“If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.” – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

“But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near.”
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” – Plato (427-347 B.C.)

“The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it.” – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

“Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-)

“Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.” – Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

“We have art to save ourselves from the truth.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” – Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

“I think ‘Hail to the Chief’ has a nice ring to it.” – John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) when asked what is his favorite song

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) upon arriving at U.S. customs 1882

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” – H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

“Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.” – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

“The difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’ is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was ‘involved’ – the pig was ‘committed’.” – Unknown

“Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship.” – Sharon Stone
“If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Cute Quotes for Girls about Boys

If I have a monument in this world, it is my son. – Maya Angelou

The sweetest roamer is a boy’s young heart. – George Edward Woodberry

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations. – Cyril Connolly

Of all the animals, the boy is most unmanageable. – Plato

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. – Robert Frost

When I grow up I want to be a little boy. – Joseph Heller

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick. – George Burns

Best Love Quotes

”Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy. ” Audre Lorde

”It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. ” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

”True love stories never have endings. ” Richard Bach

”In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. ” Erich Fromm

”In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable. ” Madame de Stael

”Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ ” Erich Fromm

”Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s. ” Madame de Stael

”If you want to be loved, be lovable. ” Ovid

”Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ” C. S. Lewis

”Love is more than a noun – it is a verb; it is more than a feeling – it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing. ” William Arthur Ward

”If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ” Michel de Montaigne

”A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. ” Boethius

”Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. ” Maya Angelou

”If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. ” A. A. Milne

”A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. ” Stendhal

”Love is a better teacher than duty. ” Albert Einstein

”If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. ” Emmet Fox

”If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. ” Maya Angelou

”I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. ” George Eliot

”Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. ” Ella Fitzgerald

”I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. ” Daphne Rae

”What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. ” Nathaniel Hawthorne

”I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. ” Judy Garland

”A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. ” Honore de Balzac

”A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night. ” Marilyn Monroe

”How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. ” Barbara Pym

”All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. ” Andre Breton

”Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ” Peter Ustinov

”Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ” Albert Einstein

”If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal. ” John Lennon

”Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never. ” Charles Caleb Colton

”Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times. ” Rita Rudner

”One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. ” Sophocles

”For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. ” Judy Garland

”Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. ” Martin Luther King, Jr.

”First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. ” George Bernard Shaw

”A life lived in love will never be dull. ” Leo Buscaglia

”Do all things with love. ” Og Mandino

”The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. ” Vincent van Gogh

”Come live in my heart, and pay no rent. ” Samuel Lover

”Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ” Rumi

”Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? ” Richard Bach

”At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ” Plato

”Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone. ” C. S. Lewis

”A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. ” Thomas Carlyle

Madame de Stael

Ancient Quotes

Let me share with you some great, famous, ancient quotes. I mean, wise quotes from ancient people.

Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones. – Philippos
I can conceive of two worlds. The world out there and the world within my head. – Philippos
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. – Aesop
It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death. – Anaxandrides
Let us not misunderstand what courage really is. The absence of fear is the courage of the mad. Doing what is right in the presense of fear, is the courage of the noble. – Phillipos
My best dreams and worst nightmares have the same people in them – Phillipos
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. – Sophocles
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates
They can because they think they can. – Virgil
We are what we repeatedly do. – Aristotle
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. – Plato

Men and Women Quotes

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.” – Robert Frost

“Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.” – Albert Einstein

“Men are what their mothers made them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.” – Margaret Fuller

“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.” – Plato

“For most of history, ‘Anonymous’ was a woman.” – Virginia Woolf

“Women are made to be loved, not understood.” – Oscar Wilde

“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” – Will Rogers

“Women don’t want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think – in a deeper voice.” – Bill Cosby

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” – Timothy Leary

Sweet Quotes to Say to Someone Special

I know that all of us always wanted to impress special persons in our lifes. Today, I’m gonna show you some great sweet quotes to say to someone special. At the end, please tell me your opinion about these quotes. Thanks :)

When you are in Love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. ~ Dr Seans

A Friend is a treasure.
More precious than Gold,
For love shared is priceless
And never grows old. ~ Unknown Author

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. ~ Unknown Author

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. ~ Roy Croft

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.~ Unknown Author

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.~ Unknown Author

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~ Plato

Some of the greater things in life are unseen thats why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream… ~ Unknown Author

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend. ~ Albert Camus

You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. ~ Unknown Author

A man cannot reason with the woman he loves: he cares about her too much. ~ Unknown Author

As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never change…I will always keep falling in love with you. ~ Karen

If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together.. there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart.. I’ll always be with you. ~ Winnie the Pooh

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. ~ Winnie the Pooh

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. ~ Unknown Author

The best thing about me is you. ~ Shannon Crown

Life in abundance comes only through great love. ~ Elbert GreenHubbard

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ~ Unknown Author

If I never met you, I wouldn’t like you. If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t love you. If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t miss you. But I did, I do, and I will. ~ Unknown Author

Love means never having to say you are sorry. ~ Erich Sehgal (from book Love Story)

Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever. ~ Unknown Author

We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love. ~ Mother Teresa

Personal Growth Quotes

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Big doors swing on little hinges.” – W. Clement Stone

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” – Winston Churchill

“We find comfort among those who agree with us– growth among those who don’t.” – Frank A Clark

” Sometimes success is better measured in smiles received, giggles heard, and hands held, than in dollars earned, deadlines met, and kilos shed.” – Mike Dooley

“Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.” – Lao Tzu

” Forget the past; use the present to plan for the future.” – Refilwe Henny Muremi

“It not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know.” – Anthony Robbins

“The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.” – Socrates

“If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.” – Lord Chesterfield

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle

“Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.” – Plato

“Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.” – Doug Firebaugh

“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” – Denis Waitley

“Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” – John Maxwell

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.” – Napoleon Hill

“Insist on yourself. Never imitate.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle

“If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison

“A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.” – La Rochefoucauld

“Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and good things will be yours.” – Swedish Proverb

“You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.” –Albert Einstein

Funny Humorous and Love Quotes

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell. – Joan Crawford

It’s been so long since I made love, I can’t even remember who gets tied up. – Joan Rivers

Trust your husband, adore your husband, and get as much as you can in your own name. – Joan Rivers

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip. – Jonathan Carroll

No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn’t take the first pill that comes along. – Joyce Brothers

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. – Katharine Hepburn

True love is like seeing ghosts; we all talk about it, but few of us have ever seen one. – La Rochefoucauld

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question. – Lily Tomlin

The only people who make love all the time are liars. – Louis Jordan

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he’s a baby. – Natalie Wood

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman. – Oscar Wilde

Love is a grave mental disease. – Plato

Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man that I want my children to spend their weekends with? – Rita Rudner

Forget love, I’d rather fall in chocolate. – Sandra J. Dykes

All marriages are happy. It’s trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems. – Shelley Winters

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy. – Steve Martin

A love without indiscretion is no lover at all. – Thomas Hardy

Marriage is a great institution for those who like institutions. – Tommy Dewar

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. – W. Somerset Maugham

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. – Walt Disney

Love is the answer, but while you’re waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. – Woody Allen

The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty. – Woody Allen

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it’s one of the best. – Woody Allen

Positive Friendship Quotes

– “What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies.” – Aristotle

– “The friendship that can cease has never been real.” – Saint Jerome

– “I count myselt in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends.” – William Shakespeare

– “I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial.” – Thomas Jefferson

– “Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak.” – John Donne

– “Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.” – John Boyle O’Reilly

– “Friends have all things in common.” – Plato

– “Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.” – Artistotle

– “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” – Henry Ford

– “What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.” – Unknown

– “No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.” – George Eliot

– “It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm,
A happy and auspicious bird of calm…” – Shelly

– “The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.” – Wilson Mizner

– “The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.” – Thomas Jefferson

– “One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.” – Francoise Sagan

– “Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an oppourtunity.” – Kahil Gibran

– “There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.” – Bejamin Disraeli

– “I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.” – Walt Whitman

– “True friendship is never serene.” – Marquise de Sevigne

– “When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.” – Anatole Broyard

– “Friends are born, not made.” – Henry Adams

– “This communicating of a man’s self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half.” – Francis Bacon

– “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose.” – Tehyi Hsieh

– “There is no hope of joy except in human relations.” – Antoine de Sainte-Exupery

– “The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.” – Edward Everett Hale

– “Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

– “The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?” – Henry David Thoreau

– “Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.” – James Fenimore Cooper

– “Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.” – James Francis Byrnes

Funny Love Quotes

Shopping is better than sex. At least if you’re not satisfied, you can exchange it for something you really like. – Adrienne Gusoff

An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. – Agatha Christie

Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
So each is inevitably disappointed. – Albert Einstein

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity. – Albert Einstein

Men make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. – Anonymous

You know it’s love when you want to keep holding hands even after you’re sweaty. – Anonymous

The four most important words in any marriage…”I’ll do the dishes.” – Anonymous

No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying. – Anonymous

Marriage is like jogging through a puddle of industrial strength rubber glue. You can work hard and make it through the struggles; however, you usually leave your bobby socks and sneakers behind along the way. – Anonymous

When a relationship goes flat, so does a couple of sets of car tires. – Anonymous

Men only have two faults….What they do, and what they say! – Anonymous

You can’t buy love on eBay. – Anonymous

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it? – Bette Midler

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. – Brendan Francis

Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch. – Cathy Carlyle

Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. – Cecilia Egan

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing — and then marry him. – Cher

Men aren’t necessities, they’re luxuries. – Cher

By the time you swear you’re his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is infinite, undying –
Lady, make note of this: One of you is lying. – Dorothy Parker

I’m always looking for meaningful one night stands. – Dudley Moore

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery. – Erma Bombeck

Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. – Fran Lebowitz

It is impossible to love and be wise. – Francis Bacon

Marriage marks the end of many short follies – being one long stupidity. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery. – Fulton J. Sheen

Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it. – George Carlin

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one. – Glenn Beck

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. – Groucho Marx

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. – Helen Rowland

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy. – Henry Kissinger

When we got married I told my wife “If you leave me, I’m going with you.” And she never did. – James Fineous McBride

Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house. – Jean Kerr