“life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.”
Source: Little Women
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Louisa May Alcott174
American novelist 1832–1888Related quotes
Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst
Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
“The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes book Elsie Venner
Elsie Venner (1859)
“Stern Ruin's plowshare drives elate,
Full on thy bloom.”
Robert Burns To a Mountain Daisy
To a Mountain Daisy, st. 9 (1786)
“Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.”
Nicholas Sparks book Nights in Rodanthe
Source: Nights in Rodanthe
“Love is very fruitful both of honey and gall.”
Amor et melle et felle est faecundissimus.
Cistellaria, Act I, scene 1, line 70
Cistellaria (The Casket)
“Arrogance in full bloom bears a crop of ruinous folly from which it reaps a harvest all of tears.”
Source: The Persians (472 BC), lines 821–822 (tr. Christopher Collard)