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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
John Updike1932–2009Couples (1968), Ch. 1
- Marriage
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov1921–2004BBC obituary (2004)
- Forgiveness
Life is but a brief moment. The years go by quickly and old age arrives suddenly before we have an inkling. People desire so many things and waste their days in vain. Some yearn for gold, others for power, yet others for glory and a higher station. But when death’s moment nears and they look back at their lives they’ve lived, they realise they’ve been happy only during those moments when they’ve loved.
BVBorje Vahamaki
- Life & Death
Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!
Jules Verne1828–1905Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), Chapter XXXVIIIn context
- Happiness
It is worth being shot at to see how much one is loved.
Queen Victoria1819–1901After being shot at by Roderick Maclean on 2 March 1882, as quoted in Stanley Weintraub, Victoria. Biography of a queen (1987), p. 450.
Love is lord of all, and is in all the same.
Virgil70–19 BCGeorgics (29 BC), Book III, lines 242–244 (tr. John Dryden).
Love conquers all; let us, too, yield to Love!
Virgil70–19 BCEclogues (37 BC), Book X, line 69 (tr. Fairclough)
I feel once more the scars of the old flame.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 23 (tr. C. Day Lewis); Dido acknowledging her love for Aeneas.
Unconscionable Love,
To what extremes will you not drive our hearts!
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 412 (tr. Fitzgerald)
It is in love that religion exists and not in ceremony, in the pure and sincere love in the heart. Unless a man is pure in body and mind, his coming into a temple and worshipping Shiva is useless.
Swami Vivekananda1863–1902Address at the Rameswaram Temple on Real Worship
- Religion
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire1694–1778
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire1694–1778
- Marriage
Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the body.
Voltaire1694–1778Le Dernier Volume Des Œuvres De Voltaire: Contes — Comédie — Pensées -— Poésies — Lettres (1862)
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Slapstick (1976), Prologue
I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, “Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.”
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Slapstick (1976), Prologue