philosophy quotes on love

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. ~Ernest Hemingway



How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that made me want to drink? ~Author Unknown



No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. ~Thomas Jefferson, letter, 1796



Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him? ~Pierre Troubetzkoy



We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul - and you answer. ~Terri Guillemets



Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever - but would rather not. ~Author Unknown



It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures. ~William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823



Not savages? and what else are we, I ask you? We are worse savages than the Australian bushmen, since possessing the knowledge of our savagery, we persist in it. ~"The Mission," Chapter 6



The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. ~Mata Hari



Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are. ~Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, 1899



A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practise it. ~Alexander Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727



Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. ~Thomas Jefferson, letter to Nathaniel Macon



I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~Colonel Potter, M*A*S*H



I just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there. ~Bob Hope, about his golfing



Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside. ~Rabindranath Tagore



Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow. ~Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You



When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. ~Peter Marshall



The I in illness is isolation, and the crucial letters in wellness are we. ~Author unknown, as quoted in Mimi Guarneri, The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing