quotes about love and life and happiness

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets. ~Robert Ingersoll, A Lay Sermon There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn



No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. ~Anton Chekhov



Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye. ~Marie Louise De La Ramee



I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. ~Author Unknown



I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all. ~Jawaharlal Nehru



The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. ~Author Unknown



War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage. ~Dick Motta



The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau



Saying: a usually pithy and familiar statement expressing an observation or principle generally accepted as wise or true.



To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. ~John Burroughs



A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer. ~Author Unknown



A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. ~Thomas Jefferson



You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart. ~Author Unknown



The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess. ~John Gay, The Beggar's Opera



In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight. ~Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin



The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. ~Blaise Pascal



What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Child Harold's Pilgrimage



Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? ~Maurice Freehill



He who burns his bridges better be a damn good swimmer. ~Author Unknown

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