love quotes

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated



My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution. ~George Washington, letter, 1789



Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately. ~Lord Chesterfield



For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? ~Luke 9:25



The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill



Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body. ~Cher



You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. ~Ruth E. Renkl



The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling. ~Lucretius



If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips. ~Attributed to John Wagner



At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly equivalent to herding cats. ~The Washington Post Magazine, 9 June 1985



Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. ~W.J. Cameron



When Hell freezes over, I'll play hockey there too. ~Author Unknown



If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time. ~Author Unknown



He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. ~Herbert Gold



Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997



The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends. ~Saki



You must start with a positive attitude or you will surely end without one. ~Carrie Latet



Nothing there but basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo. ~Ogden Nash



Gipsy gold does not chink and glitter. It gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark. ~Attributed to the Claddaugh Gypsies of Galway