Quotes to inspire and reflect

Those marriages generally abound most with love and constancy that are preceded by a long courtship. The passion should strike root and gather strength before marriage be grafted on it.

I know with certainty that a man s work is nothing but the long journey to recover, through the detours of art, the two or three simple and great images which first gained access to his heart.

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we’d never be done with it.

After all, perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.

A person’s life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art, or love, or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened.

The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.

It’s a joy to be old.

The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to slaves.

The lover says how beautiful you are, now that you love me.

A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.

Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.

For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother tomorrow.

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses.

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

Oh! love!... That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

Love came down at Christmas Love all lovely, love divine Love was born at Christmas, Stars and angels gave the sign.

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.

Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.

Journeys end in lover's meetings.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

The happiest time in any man's life is just after the first divorce.

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.

in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.

Don't come crawlin' to a man for love--he likes to get a run for his money.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him.

Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.

I see when men love women they give but a little of their lives, but women, when they love, give everything.

Blood's not thicker than money.

It is not enough to conquer; one must also know how to seduce.

The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes.

In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play.