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Quotations by Subject: Love (162 quotes)

Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
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Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
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Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.: E. H. Gombrich (1909 - )
The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.: Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950), A Guide to Men, 1922
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Mysticism and Logic (1917) ch. 4
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