Relationships and Family

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love.

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. J. R. R.

 

Golf is like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove;

 

It is the little rift within the lute,

 

It is the little rift within the lute,

 

O Love, O fire! once he drew

 

O Love, O fire! once he drew

 

Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus.

 

Well, my daddy left home when I was three, And didn’t leave much to Ma and me, Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze. Now I don’t blame him because he run and hid, But the meanest thing he ever did was Before he left, he went and named me Sue.

 

You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; Tomorrow ’ill be the happiest time of all the glad New Year; Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May.

 

Not only does democracy make everyman forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens to the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,

She has always been there, my darling.

She has always been there, my darling.

But, once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky!

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Where we love is home—home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Where we love is home—home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.