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- Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
- H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937)
- Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
- Octavio Paz (1914 - ), The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)
- He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.
- Dr. Isaac Barrow (1630 - 1677), quoted in Fifty Years of Sheffield Church Life 1866-1916 by Rev. W. Odom
- Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
- 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all. - Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892), In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4
- But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
- When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.
- Jimi Hendrix (1942 - 1970)
- Alas my love you do me wrong,
To cast me of discurteously; And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company. - Anonymous, Greensleeves
- For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest. - Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
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