Samuel Laman Blanchard (1804–1845) British author and journalist
"That Good Wine Needs No Bush".
Sketches from Life (1846)
Context: It is surely one of the strangest of our propensities to mark out those we love best for the worst usage; yet we do, all of us. We can take any freedom with a friend; we stand on no ceremony with a friend.
“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
Paul McCartney (1942) English singer-songwriter and composer
"The End"; The last full song track of Abbey Road (1969) the last Beatles album to be recorded before the band broke up. (Let It Be was the last album released, but had been recorded earlier.)
Lyrics, The Beatles
Source: The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics
“If it takes you apart, that's not love. Love puts you back together.”
Catherine Ryan Hyde (1955) American writer
“Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
Isaac McLellan (1806–1899) American writer
New England's Dead, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) American writer and scientist
"Conservation" (c. 1938); Published in Round River, Luna B. Leopold (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 145-146.
1930s
Context: Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. … Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism.
Thornton Wilder book The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Source: The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)
Context: Soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Charles Barron (1950) American politician
Commenting on Robert Mugabe, 6 June, 2008. http://observer.com/2008/06/barron-praises-robert-mugabe-for-doing-what-mandela-and-tutu-wouldnt/
