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Quotations by Subject: Love (162 quotes)

Results from Poor Man's College:

A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary.: Dorothy Fisher
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.: C. C. Colton
The tipping custom originated in England when small sums were dropped into a box marked T.I.P.S. --TO INSURE PROMPT SERVICE.: Author Unknown, (apocryphal)
In the late 19th century Evanston, Illinois, nicknamed "Heavenston" by Frances Willard, was a Methodist-minded town, so pious that the town fathers, resenting the dissipating influence of the soda fountain, passed an ordinance forbidding the sale of ice cream sodas on Sunday. Some ingenious confectioners, obeying the law, served ice cream with syrup but no soda. This sodaless soda was the Sunday soda, and became so popular that orders for "Sundays" crossed the counter everyday of the week. When objection was raised to christening the dish after the Sabbath, the spelling was changed to Sundae, and so developed one of America's most characteristic dishes.: William Lyon Phelps
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.: Author Unknown
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is "man" himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.: Edward Steichen
Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - it was gone.: Author Unknown
Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it.: Author Unknown

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