quotes about love and pain

I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine. ~Alfred North Whitehead



A smile confuses an approaching frown. ~Author Unknown



My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table



It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused. ~Marcel Proust



Short A: I respect your privacy, please read the long answer as well.



I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges. ~William Albert Allard, "The Photographic Essay"



Loyd: "Only if you have an ordinary life. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life."



Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. ~Aldous Huxley



Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams. ~Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence



If you want to take long walks, take long walks. If you want to hit things with sticks, hit things with sticks. But there's no excuse for combining the two and putting the results on TV. Golf is not so much a sport as an insult to lawns. ~National Lampoon, 1979



The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



An optimist is the human personification of spring. ~Susan J. Bissonette



Sometimes the best man for the job isn't. ~Author Unknown



Every vice has its excuse ready. ~Publilius Syrus



Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ~Robert Frost



Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. ~William James, The Principles of Psychology



The greatest wealth is health. ~Virgil



Advertising is only another form of statistics. ~Hartman Jule



Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960