confusion quotes about love

Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? ~Proverbs 6:27



Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him? ~Pierre Troubetzkoy



If they can put one man on the moon why can't they put them all there? ~Chocolate Waters



"Your money, or your life." We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



History is past politics, and politics present history. ~John Robert Seeley, The Growth of British Policy



Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too. ~Lionel Kauffman



The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before. ~Herman Melville, White Jacket



Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. ~Bern Williams



Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. ~Ann Landers



There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ~Lady Blessington



Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. ~Andre Gide, Nourritures Terrestres



Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore



Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. ~Euripides



The Christian Right is neither. ~Author Unknown



Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. ~Abbott Lawrence Lowell



A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~Donna Roberts A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~Donna Roberts



There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death. ~Kenneth Patchen



I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. ~Jane Wagner



Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little. ~Hannah More



The poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. ~Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination, 1950