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- We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
- Bill Vaughan
- Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
- Lynda Barry
- It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)
- There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "On Reading and Writing"
- He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2
- The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "Mostly Harmless"
- Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "Last Chance to See"
- Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
- Rabbi Julius Gordon
- Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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