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Romantic Quotations

coldblack — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:55:42 +0000

Words are the key to the heart.
- Anonymous

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
- Elizabeth Bowen

Love me, and tell me so sometimes.
- Gail Hamilton

The sea hath its pearls
The heaven hath its stars
But my heart, my heart
Has its love.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
- Jean Anouilh

When love beckons to you follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
- Kahil Gibran

Love transforms; it simultaneously makes us larger and limits and limits our possibilities. It changes our history even as it breaks a new path through the present.
- Michael Dorrius

With thee conversing, I forget all time;
All seasons and their change, all please alike.
- Milton

Soft moonlight and tender love harmonize together wonderfully.
- Ninon de l’Enclos

Love dies only when growth stops.
- Pearl S. Buck

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sweet are the words of Love, sweeter his thoughts:
Sweetest of all what Love nor says nor thinks.
- Richard Garnett

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
- Robert Browning

Love is a circle that doth restless move
In the same sweet eternity of love.
- Robert Herick

Love rules the court,
The camp, the grove,
And men below, and the saints above,
For love is heaven and heaven is love.
- Sir Walter Scott

The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.
- Suzanne Necker

In all our losses, all our gains,
In all our pleasures, all our pains,
The life of life is: Love remains.
In every change from good to ill,–
If love continues still,
Let happen then what will.
- Theodore Tilton

But there’s nothing half so sweet in life
As love’s young dream.
- Thomas Moore

A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.
- William Shakespeare

As sweet and musical
As bright Apollo’s lute, strung with his hair;
And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods
Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
- William Shakespeare

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
- William Shakespeare

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare

Quotations for Mothers

coldblack — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:26:26 +0000

As is the mother, so is her daughter.
- Ezekiel 16:4

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

God could not be everywhere, therefore he created mothers.
- Hebrew Proverb

The fate of the child is always the work of his mother.
- Napoleon

Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotations for Mothers

coldblack — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:23:06 +0000

A mother’s love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion or the gentle chidings of the best friend that God ever gives us.
– Christian Nestell Bovee
The angels, whispering to one another
Can find, among their burning terms of love,
None so devotional as that of “Mother”.
– Edgar Allan Poe
Making a decision to have a child–it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
– Elizabeth Stone
As is the mother, so is her daughter.
– Ezekiel 16:4
One good mother is worth a hundred school masters.
– George Herbert
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
God could not be everywhere, therefore he created mothers.
– Hebrew Proverb
The mother’s heart is in the child’s schoolroom.
– Henry Ward Beecher
We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves.
– Henry Ward Beecher
A mother understands what a child does not say.
– Jewish Proverb
The instruction received at the mother’s knee, and the paternal lessons, together with the pious and sweet souvenirs of the fireside, are never effaced entirely from the soul.
– Lamennais
What do girls do who haven’t any mothers to help them through their troubles?
– Louisa May Alcott
The fate of the child is always the work of his mother.
– Napoleon
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall;
A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
Men are what their mothers made them.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
A mother’s love will draw up from the depths of the sea.
– Russian Proverb
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in them.
– Victor Hugo
She broke the bread into two fragments, and gave them to the children, who ate with avidity. “She has kept none for herself,” grumbled the sergeant. “Because she is not hungry,” said a soldier. “Because she is a mother,” said the sergeant.
– Victor Hugo
She had listened to nothing, but mothers hear certain things without listening.
– Victor Hugo
Is not a young mother one of the sweetest sights which life shows us? If she has been beautiful before, does not her present pure joy give a character of refinement and sacredness almost to her beauty, touch her sweet cheeks with fairer blushes, and impart I know not what serene brightness to her eyes?
– W. M. Thackery

Quotations about Middle Age

coldblack — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:16:07 +0000

Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.
- Bennett Cerf

Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that’ll get you home earlier.
- Dan Bennett

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
- Franklin Pierce Adams

Middle Age: When you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
- Georges Clemenceau

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time catches up with Mother Nature.
- Harold Coffin

A birthday:—and now a day that rose with much of hope, with meaning rife— A thoughtful day from dawn to close: The middle day of human life.
- Jean Ingelow

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man’s life has its own fortunes, its own hope its own desires.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of somene else.
- Ogden Nash

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

Marriage Quotations

coldblack — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:58:54 +0000

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting-point for happiness and usefulness.
- A. P. Stanley

Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love–friends, counselors–a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life’s struggles, must know the highest human happiness;–this is marriage; and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best the he possesses.
- Georges Duhamel

Oh! Surely marriage is a great and sacred responsibility. It is a bark in which two souls venture out on life’s stormy sea, with no aid but their own to help them.
- James Hamilton

Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to divine or universal love.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and the way they express their love.
- Pearl S. Buck

In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one’s way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path.
- Phyllis McGinley

Our partner is essential to the discovery of our own calling, and in a curious way shows us what we want, or more exactly, shows us what is wanted of us from within ourselves and our world.
- Thomas Moore

A marriage based on mutual esteem, built up by lasting affection, and crowned with Heaven’s blessing, is the fair remnant left us on earth of the institutions of Paradise.
- S. Walker

A contract of eternal bond of love,
Confirm’d by mutual joinder of your hands,
Arrested by the holy close of lips,
Strength’ned by the interchangement of your rings,
And all the ceremony of this compact
Seal’d in my function, by my testimony.
- William Shakespeare

Marriage Advice

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin

Marry above thy match and you will get a master.
- Benjamin Franklin

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
- Benjamin Franklin

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.
- Blaise Pascal

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.
- Gaelic Proverb

Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree.
- George Granville

Marriages are not as they are made, but as they turn out.
- Italian Proverb

Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other’s burden.
- John Milton

In marriage never taunt with a past mistake.
- Maxim

Let husband and wife neglect the whole world besides, rather than one another.
- Maxim

I chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but for such qualities as would wear well.
- Oliver Goldsmith

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
- Ovid

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
- Selden

Marriages are best made of dissimilar material.
- Theodore Parker

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.
- William Shakespeare

Funny Quote

If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

- Logan Pearsall Smith

How to be Happy Though Marrried
- Reverend E.J. Hardy, book title, first published 1886

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
- Socrates

Love Quotations

coldblack — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:42:00 +0000

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
- 1 John 4:18

There is nothing that binds heart to heart so
Quickly and safely as to trust and be trusted.
- Anonymous

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love’s sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.
- Christian Nestell Bovee

Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
- Edmund Spenser

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Mauriac

The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
- John Keats

Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other.
- Joshua Liebman

And think not you can guide the course of love. For love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course.
- Kahil Gibran

To live without loving is to not really live.
- Moliere

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.
- Ring Lardner

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
- Robert Burton

No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
- Thomas Moore

Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.
- Virgil

If music be the food of love, play on.
- William Shakespeare

It is not night when I do see your face.
- William Shakespeare

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare

Quotes about Growing Older

coldblack — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:16:42 +0000

But if you’ll prosper, mark what I advise,
Whom age, and long experience render wise.
- Alexander Pope

The principal objection to old age is hat there is no future in it.
- Anonymous

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always fifteen years older then I am.
- Bernard Baruch

The whiter my haid becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.
- Bertand Russell

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
- Bronson Alcott

An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.
- Cicero

It is not by muscle, speed or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgement; in these qualities old age is usually not only not poorer, but is even richer.
- Cicero

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
- Eric Hoffer

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
- Francis Bacon

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
- Friedrich von Schiller

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
- Gerald Brenan

To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
- James A. Garfield

He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen
A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
- John Dryden

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
- Jonathan Swift

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and just not think about your age.
- Lucille Ball

The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.
- Lydia M. Child

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.
- Mme. Swetchine

Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.
- Mme. Swetchine

I grow old, ever learning many things.
- Solon

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
- Sophocles

Youth passes like a dream.
- Theocritus

Quotes about Fathers

coldblack — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:14:14 +0000

We think our Fathers Fools
Our wiser Sons, no doubt, will think us so.
- Alexander Pope

The glory of a man is from the honour of his father.
- Ecclesiasticus 3:11

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relations for father and son.
- Evelyn Waugh

A father is a banker provided by nature.
- French Proverb

One father is worth more than a hundred schoolmasters.
- George Herbert

I have found that the best way to give advice to you children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
- Harry S. Truman

We never know the love of our parents for us until we become parents.
- Henry Ward Beecher

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to giv our children. One of these is roots, the other wings.
- Hodding Carter

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
- Lydia M. Child

No man is responsible for his father. That is his mother’s affair.
- Margaret Turnbull

Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old enough he will not depart from it.
- Proverbs 12:4

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- Shakespeare

Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it yourself, and then all the world will love you, and I more than all the world.
- Thomas Jefferson, from a letter to his daughter

Anything which parents have not learned from experience they can now learn from their children.
- Unknown

Birthday Quotations

coldblack — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:30:02 +0000

General Birthday

the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
- Christina Georgina Rossetti

Birthdays? yes, in a general way;
For the most if not for the best of men:
You were born (I suppose) on a certain day:
So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then?
- James Kenneth Stephen

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
- Jean Paul Richter

May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
- Jonathan Swift

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents … and only one for birthday presents, you know.
- Lewis Carroll

The greatest comfort of my old age, and that which gives me the highest satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance of the many benefits and friendly offices I have done to others.
- Marcus Cato

Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.
- Plato

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
- Plautus

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.
- Robert Browning

The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet.
- Robert Orben

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
- Virginia Woolf

From our birthday, until we die,
Is but the winking of an eye.
- William Butler Yeats

Funny Quotes

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized
for a crime you have not committed.
- Anthony Powell

Getting old ain’t for sissies.
- Betty Davis

Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
- C.E.M. Joad

Inside every older person is a younger person -
wondering what the hell happened.
- Cora Harvey Armstrong

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
- Euripides

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Oh to be seventy again.
- Georges Clemenceau, upon seeing a pretty girl on his eightieth birthday

A birthday:—and now a day that rose
With much of hope, with meaning rife—
A thoughtful day from dawn to close:
The middle day of human life.
- Jean Ingelow

You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime.
- John P. Grier

Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own.
- J. P. Sears

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
- Mark Twain

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.
- Maurice Chevalier

Call this an unfair generalization if you must,
but old people are no good at everything.
- Moe, from the Simpsons

I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller

Of late I appear
To have reached that stage
When people who look old
Who are only my age.
- Richard Armour

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s
birthday but never remembers her age.
- Robert Frost

My birthday!–what a different sound
That word had in my youthful ears;
And how each time the day comes round,
Less and less white its mark appears.
- Thomas Moore

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
- Tom Stoppard

If I’d known I was going to live this long (100 years),
I’d have taken better care of myself.
- Ubie Blake

Milestones

20th

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; and at 40 the judgment.
- Ben Franklin

Live as long as you may. The first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
- Robert Southey

30th & 35th

After 30, a body has a mind of its own.
- Bette Midler

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head
together and your body starts falling apart.
- Caryn Leschen

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
- Georges Clemenceau

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.
- Lew Wallace

Thirty five is a very attractive age;
London society is full of women who have of their own
free choice remained thirty-five for years.
- Oscar Wilde

Time and Tide wait for no man,
but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.
- Robert Frost

40th

The first forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty supply the commentary.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn’t show its age.
Latin: Hoc vinum Falernum annorum quadragenta est. Bene aetatem fert.
- Cicero

Be wise with speed;
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- Edward Young

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
- French Proverb

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
- George Bernard Shaw

What most persons consider as virtue,
after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- Voltaire

Life begins at forty.
- W. B. Pitkin

50th

At age 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
- George Orwell

You take all of the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn’t be enough left to run it.
- Henry Ford

Looking fifty is great–if you’re sixty.
- Joan Rivers

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
- T.S. Eliot

60th

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
- Arnold Bennett

What, start at this! when sixty years have spread
Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head?
Is this the all observing age could gain?
Or hast thou known the worl so long in vain?
- John Dryden

Some people reach the age of sixty before others.
- Lord Hood

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
- Pablo Picasso

70th

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else….I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
- Mark Twain, at his seventieth birthday dinner, in 1905, as quoted in Saving Your Brain, by Jeff Victoroff

On my seventieth birthday I felt as if I were standing on a mountain height, at whose foot the ocean of eternity was audibly rushing; while before me, life with its deserts and flower-gardens, its sunny days and its stormy days, spread out green, wild, and beautiful.
- The Consolations of Age, translated from the German of Zschokke’s autobiography

80th or more

Oh, to be seventy again.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., upon seeing an attractive woman on his 90th birthday