short love sayings and quotes
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ~Booker T. Washington
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light. ~Earl Nightingale
A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. ~Helen Rowland
By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us. ~Edwin Markham
Tooth decay was a perennial national problem that meant a mouthful of silver for patients, and for dentists a pocketful of gold. ~Claudia Wallis Top off the tea... it lubricates the grey matter. ~Good Neighbors, quoted from stashtea.com
Remember folks, street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph. ~Jim Samuels
America is a tune. It must be sung together. ~Gerald Stanley Lee, Crowds
The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
How can you put on a meaningful drama when, every fifteen minutes, proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? ~Rod Serling, quoted in Submitted for Your Approval, Public Broadcasting Station, 1995
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. ~Virginia Woolf
What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. ~John 3:8
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. ~Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, 1893
Give me the fresh air, a beautiful partner, and a nice round of golf, and you can keep the fresh air and the round of golf. ~Jack Benny
Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands. ~Jayne Mansfield
Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. ~Ambrose Bierce
Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
When you're really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights - and flowers will bloom on a barren land. ~Grey Livingston
It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent. ~Machiavelli
How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960