cupid love quotes

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. ~Quentin Crisp



A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature really smile. Never does she look so delightful, as when the sun is brightly reflected by the water, while the waves are gently rippling, and the prospect receives life and animation from the glancing transit of an occasional row-boat, and the quieter motion of a few small vessels. But the land must be well in sight; not only for its own sake, but because the immensity and awfulness of a mere sea-view would ill accord with the other parts of the glittering and joyous scene. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years. ~John Fischer



Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



America is a place where Jewish merchants sell Zen love beads to agnostics for Christmas. ~John Burton Brimer



I would have thought that the knowledge that you are going to be leapt upon by half-a-dozen congratulatory, but sweaty team-mates would be inducement not to score a goal. ~Arthur Marshall



At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb



A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. ~George Eliot



The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage. ~Aeschylus, The Suppliant Maidens



The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize lecture, 11 December 1968



Do vegetarians eat animal crackers? ~Author Unknown



History is a pageant and not a philosophy. ~Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta: The Muse of History



If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose. ~Ulysses S. Grant



It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. ~Joseph Joubert



I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird



Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive. ~Havelock Ellis, On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue, 1937



May the lights of Hanukkah usher in a better world for all humankind. ~Author Unknown



Coffee in styrofoam is against my religion. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com



Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. ~Roger Caras