“Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Variant: Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.
Quotes For Him page 3
Amelia Earhart (1897–1937) American aviation pioneer and author
As quoted in Soaring Wings : A Biography of Amelia Earhart (1939) by George Palmer Putnam, p. 83
Cited as Amelia Earhart, "My Husband," Redbook magazine (Sept. 1933) in Mary S. Lovell, The Sound of Wings (1989), p. 101.
“Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.”
Colley Cibber (1671–1757) British poet laureate
Xerxes, Act IV, sc. iii (1699).
“Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and difficult as that.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“The future was not what it used to be.”
K. A. Bedford book Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait
Source: Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (2008), Chapter 13 (p. 156)
“We will take the good-will for the deed.”
Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 49.
“But there's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
Love's Young Dream', st. 1. <br class="br"> Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”
János Arany (1817–1882) Hungarian writer
As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893) by James Wood, p. 11
“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.”
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer
Source: A Writer's Notebook (1946), p. 13
“Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”
Aphra Behn (1640–1689) British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer
The Younger Brother, Act III, sc. ii (published posthumously 1696).
“There is no knowledge that is not power.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Old Age
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)
“Dream by making and make by dreaming.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Seagull from Afar http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21382/Seagull_from_Afar_ <br class="br">From the poems written in English
“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.”
Anatole France book The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Les amants qui aiment bien n'écrivent pas leur bonheur.
La Bûche [The Log] (November 30, 1859)
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”
Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet
As quoted in A Small Drop of Ink: A Collection of Inspirational and Moving Quotations of the Ages (2003) by Linda Pendleton.
“Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.”
Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) American playwright and novelist
TIME magazine (3 February 1958)
“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist