Tuesday, July 14, 2009

favourite quotes

"Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working"

"We are always the same age inside" --Gertrude Stein

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." -- Elbert Hubbard

"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was." -- Dag Hammarskjold

Marriage Quotes

"Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens? " -- Alan King

"Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without."-- James C. Dobson

"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love." -- Michel de Montaigne

"Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage." -- Ambrose Bierce

"Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person." -- Sophia Bush

"The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character." -- Peter De Vries

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." -- Socrates

"Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry." -- Rita Rudner

"One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again." -- Judith Viorst

"When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife." -- Prince Philip

"When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place." -- Helen Gahagan

Love Quotes

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." -- Lao Tzu

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' " -- Erich Fromm

"It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun."-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." -- Aristotle

"Love is a game that two can play and both win." -- Eva Gabor

"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old." -- John Ciardi

"Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery


"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen." -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread." -- Mother Teresa

"What the world really needs is more love and less paper work." -- Pearl Bailey