This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
At the beginning of love and at its end the lovers are embarrassed to be left alone.
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
All true love is grounded on esteem.
However fastidious we may be in love, we forgive more faults in love than in friendship.
Love means that the adults be genuinely concerned with the evolution of the true nature of the child. Children are not able to respond to a love which tries to fashion them according to the concept of the adult, no matter how good the latter's intention may be.
Children | Evolution | Good | Intention | Love | Means | Nature | Wisdom |
If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the great cities! The necessaries of life do not occasion at most a third part of the hurry.
Curiosity | Hurry | Life | Life | Love | Mirth | Money | Pleasure | Wisdom |
J. E. Buckrose, pseudonymn of Annie Edith Foster Jameson
Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life.
Elizabeth Bowen, Full name Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Boethius, fully Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius NULL
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Henry Bolingbroke, Henry IV of England
As thou desirest the love of God and man, beware of pride. It is a tumor in the mind, that breaks and ruins all thine actions; a worm in thy treasury, that eats and ruins thine estate. It loves no man, and is beloved of none; it disparages another's virtues by detraction, and thine own vainglory. It is the friend of the flatterer, the mother of envy, the nurse of fury, the sin of devils, and devil of mankind. It hates superiors, scorns inferiors, and owns no equal. In short, till thou hate it, God hate thee.
Devil | Envy | Friend | Fury | God | Hate | Love | Man | Mankind | Mind | Mother | Pride | Sin | Wisdom | God |
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton
There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering, as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us.
Enter into the life which is eternal, pass through the gate of indifference into the palace of mastery, through the door of love out into the great open of deliverance.
Miguel de Cervantes, fully Miguel de Cervantes Saaversa
Those two fatal words, Mind and Thine..."Do not forget, Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "that there are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body. That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, generosity, and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; and when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, love is usually born suddenly and violently."
Beauty | Body | Conduct | Generosity | Good | Intelligence | Love | Man | Mind | Modesty | Qualities | Right | Soul | Ugly | Wisdom | Words | Beauty |
G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost.