Quotes For Him (216 quotes, page 3) | Quotes of famous people

“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.

Love , Pain , Pleasure

“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.”

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.

For Boyfriend , Love , Feeling , Home

“Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.”

Colley Cibber (1671–1757) British poet laureate

Xerxes, Act IV, sc. iii (1699).

Love

“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

Wedding , Love , Happiness

“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)

Funny , Wise , Faith , Family

“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.
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)

Love , Life , Dreams

“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

Courageous , Hope , Good Night , Wedding

“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

love , Depressing , Love

“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).

Life , Age , Lovers , Happiness

“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)

Birthday , Wise , Success , Happy

“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_
From the poems written in English

Good Night , Graduation , Dreams

“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 , Lovers , Happiness

“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.

Powerful , Love

“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)

Love

“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

Love , People , Parting

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