Conceit

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  • What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
        Victor Hugo   Best?
  • The pleasure of love is in loving.
        François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
  • There isn't much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren't really living without it.
        Real Live Preacher   Best?
  • All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.
        T. E. Lawrence   Best?
  • To love another person is to see the face of God.
        Victor Hugo   Best?
  • A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.
        Alexander Senturia   Best?
  • A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
        Kurt Vonnegut   Best?
  • To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.
        Logan Pearsall Smith   Best?
  • The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly.
        Paul McCartney   Best?
  • Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
        Ovid   Best?
  • That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.
        Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   Best?
  • Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
        Cicero   Best?
  • A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
        Ogden Nash   Best?
  • Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
        Sir Arthur Eddington   Best?
  • If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.
        Art Costa   Best?
  • Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
        Toni Morrison   Best?
  • The Knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
        Blaise Pascal   Best?
  • It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  • The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
        Thich Nhat Hanh   Best?
  • If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
        Charlotte Bronte   Best?
  • His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
        Lois McMaster Bujold   Best?
  • Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
        Antoine de Saint-Exupery   Best?
  • Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
        Isaac Asimov   Best?
  • You cannot conceive the many without the one.
        Plato   Best?
  • For God hates utterly
        Sophocles   Best?
  • The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  • If you can stay in love for more than two years, you're on something.
        Fran Leibowitz   Best?
  • Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
        Bellamy Brooks   Best?
  • Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  • Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • I don't do this for my health, you understand. I do it for the pain. I *LOVE* the pain!
        Professor Hugh D. Young   Best?
  • This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
        Rita Mae Brown   Best?
  • The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
        G.K. Chesterton   Best?
  • Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
        Mark A. Overby   Best?
  • You've decided to love me for eternity and I'm still deciding who I want to be today.
        Ani Difranco   Best?
  • VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?

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