A collection of quotes on the topic of for boyfriend, for wife, love, love.
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Variant: The only remedy for love is to love more.
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
Lysander, Act I, scene i.
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
“My best friend is one who brings out the best in me”
Actually due to Harris Weinstock: "My best friend is the man who can bring out of me my best, and your best friend is the one who tends to bring out the best in you" (May 1914) Attributed to Henry Ford as early as 1948.
Misattributed
“Love the life you live.
Live the life you love.”
Variant: Love the life you live. Live the life you love.
Variant: You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”
Variant: Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
“Love is not what you do. Love is what you are.”
“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
“Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.”
“Life is not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.”
Variant: Life is not the breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away.
“Love is the greatest refreshment in life”
“There is another world, but it is in this one.”
Il y a assurément un autre monde, mais il est dans celui-ci...
Œuvres complètes, vol. 1, Gallimard, 1968.
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you”
“If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eyes”
“You have only one life, make the most of it.”
Source: Holes, page 57.
Context: "You don't know that," said Mr. Pendanski. "I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it."
“Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”
“Without love, there's nothing without love.”
Without Love
Music, Slippery When Wet (1986)
“Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.”
"Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" in a letter to Arabelle Porter (28 May 1955); published in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956 (1995). Sometimes misquoted as "Be in love with your life every minute of it."
Variant: Be in love with your life every detail of it
“I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.”
Variant: I love you madly, irrationally, infinitely.
Source: Doctor Zhivago (1957)
Source: My Sister's Keeper (2004)
“I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.”
A Fish Dinner in Memison (1941)
Context: The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
Variant: nobody hαs ever meαsured, not even poets, how much the heαrt cαn hold.
“To know and not to do is really not to know.”
“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”
Variant: A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
Source: The Princess Bride
Source: Message in a Bottle
“You are my life, but you are not my purpose.”
Source: Swoon
“Love is the strongest force in the world.”
Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
“My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.”
Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
“Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.”
“A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.”
Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 11
“Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.”
Statement shortly before his death, as quoted in Life of Andrew Jackson (1860) by James Parton, p. 679.
“That's not my love; that's just your life.”
Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Isso não é o meu amor; é apenas a sua vida.
“When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.”
Book of Humorous Quotations, ed. Connie Robertson (1998), page 83
Jesus' Course in Miracles (2000) by Helen Schucman and William Thetford, Ch. 16 The Forgiveness of Illusions, p. 162
“I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.”
"The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America" (2001)
“The important thing is to be nothing.”
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“Because I loved myself, I was loved.”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
Source: Oedipus at Colonus, Line 1616–18
“And may the last voice you hear be mine!”
http://www.slideshare.net/hazman/frank-sinatra-2436159
“I like the saying "The world is as you are."”
The Circle, p. 21
Catching the Big Fish (2006)
Context: I like the saying "The world is as you are." And I think films are as you are. That's why, although the frames of a film are always the same — the same number, in the same sequence, with the same sounds — every screening is different. The difference is sometimes subtle but it's there. It depends on the audience. There is a circle that goes from the audience to the film and back. Each person is looking and thinking and feeling and coming up with his or her own sense of things. And it's probably different from what I fell in love with.
So you don’t know how it's going to hit people. But if you thought about how it's going to hit people, or if it's going to hurt someone, or if it's going to do this or do that, then you would have to stop making films. You just do these things that you fall in love with, and you never know what's going to happen.
“None of it is important or all of it is.”
Introduction
The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951)
Context: "... Let us go," we said, "into the Sea of Cortez, realizing that we become forever a part of it; that our rubber boots slogging through a flat of eel-grass, that the rocks we turn over in a tide pool, make us truly and permanently a factor in the ecology of the region. We shall take something away from it, but we shall leave something too." And if we seem a small factor in a huge pattern, nevertheless it is of relative importance. We take a tiny colony of soft corals from a rock in a little water world. And that isn't terribly important to the tide pool. Fifty miles away the Japanese shrimp boats are dredging with overlapping scoops, bringing up tons of shrimps, rapidly destroying the species so that it may never come back, and with the species destroying the ecological balance of the whole region. That isn't very important in the world. And thousands of miles away the great bombs are falling and the stars are not moved thereby. None of it is important or all of it is.
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.”
“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
Variant: The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.
Source: The Way of Chuang Tzu
“You are my sun,
my moon, and
all my stars.”
Variant: Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
“I have too many fantasies to be a housewife…. I guess I am a fantasy.”
Variant: I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
“A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.”
Variant: It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
“The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.”
“In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.”
“If there are no books. There is no civilization.”
“Love is anterior to life,
Posterior to death,
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of breath.”
Love, p. 167
Collected Poems (1993)
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Long-term relationships--the ones that matter--are all about weathering the peaks and valleys.”
Jo, Chapter 33, p. 259
Source: 2009, Safe Haven (2010)
“We turn not older with years but newer every day.”
Source: http://archive.emilydickinson.org/correspondence/norcross/l379.html Letter
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
Book III, Ch. 5
Attributed
“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”
