“People who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone, and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it.”
Adam Bede (1859)
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George Eliot 300
English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880Related quotes

Variant: If I ever fall in love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.
Source: What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (2006), Ch. 21, pp. 317-318
Source: What Is the What
Context: I cannot count the times I have cursed our lack of urgency. If I ever love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.

Address to the United States Congress (13 November 1945), quoted in The Times (14 November 1945), p. 4. Aneurin Bevan said to Attlee afterwards: "That was a noble speech. I felt very proud", quoted in John Campbell, Nye Bevan and the Mirage of British Socialism (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988), p. 187.
1940s

“Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind.”

Central Hall, Westminster, London, UK, November 2, 1971
1970s

A quote from the special inclusions in the sheet music book for her album "Under the Pink".
Songs

“Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.”