quotes about life and love

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



If the light in your life has changed to yellow, I recommend you floor it. It's safer than the alternative. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



Few great men could pass Personnel. ~Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society, 1956



Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill. ~Betty Friedan



We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. ~Michel de Montaigne



God's interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics. ~Martin H. Fischer



We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. ~Madame de Stael



The rule was "No autopsy, no foul." ~Stewart Granger, on the pickup games of his childhood



The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on. ~Elbert Hubbard



There must be more to life than having everything! ~Maurice Sendak



When it comes to exploring the sea of love, I prefer buoys. ~Andrew G. Dehel



I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



The stars, which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields of heaven. ~Philip James Bailey



To many of the modern generations, history, like God, is dead. ~Derek Heather



Fate, Chance, God's Will - we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens, will merge on a windowpane? Gotta be Fate. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life. ~Charles Dickens



For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by surprise. ~P.Z. Pearce



It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. ~Jackie Mason



What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's. ~Olin Miller



And the Easter bells be ringing! ~Edna Dean Proctor, "Easter Bells"