love and heartbreak quotes

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts! ~William Shakespeare, Othello



If you can't hear the angels, try quieting the static of worry. ~Terri Guillemets



Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. ~Mohammed Ali



Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night. ~George Allen



Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. ~Zen Proverb



What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. ~Voltaire



Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. ~H.L. Mencken



Give a woman a job and she grows balls. ~Jack Gelber



Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward. ~Ken Venturi, on Art Rosenbaum



A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. ~S.N. Behrman



Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley



For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth. ~Mary Lou Retton



Your heart knows best. Your brain knows how to get you there. ~CJ Reed, @cjreed2112



I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round. ~Karl Kraus



Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. ~S.D. Gordon



Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick



The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul's best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. ~Doug Larson



The easiest way to keep a secret is without help. ~Author Unknown