romeo and juliet quotes and meanings

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which. ~Algernon Charles Swinburne Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. ~John Dryden



Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb



No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness. ~Sheik Abd-al-Kadir



Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love. ~Author Unknown



This statesman was no conqueror, but his superiority consisted in his moral conquest; this President vanquished no foreign people, and his superiority lay in his self-constraint; this excellent judge of human nature cast a spell over nobody, yet is more fascinating than the shining victors of history. ~Emil Ludwig



The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Janie's a pretty typical teenager - angry, insecure, confused. I wish I could tell her that's all going to pass, but I don't want to lie to her. ~Alan Ball, American Beauty, 1999



These are Americans who still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do. These are Americans who still dream big dreams - they just sense their leaders have forgotten how. ~Barack Obama, Emily's List Annual Luncheon, 2006 May 11



The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right. ~Robert Farrar Capon, "Being Let Go," New York Times, 5 August 1984 The shortest answer is doing. ~Lord Herbert



When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband. ~Shana Alexander, State-by-State Guide to Women's Legal Rights, 1975



Skipping is great exercise! It burns twice as many calories as walking. It has less impact on your joints than running. And it is joy-based, unlike running which generates from our fight or flight reflex. ~Kim Corbin, founder of iskip.com



An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. ~Juvenal, Satires



Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire



The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals. ~Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead



If you pick 'em up, O Lord, I'll put 'em down. ~Author Unknown, "Prayer of the Tired Walker"



I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage, and guarantee he'd be dead within the year. ~Bette Davis



Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility. ~Stephen Baker



What is soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room. ~Ray Charles



It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot. ~Nubar Gulbenkian, 1972



Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966