love quotes for us

Eagles may soar in the clouds, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines. ~Attributed to both Jason Hutchison and John Benfield



The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. ~T.S. Eliot, quoted in Time, 23 October 1950



There is nothing more dangerous than history used as a defense, or history used for preaching; history used as a tool is no longer history. ~Marcel Trudel



What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man? ~Rita Mae Brown



I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. ~Alan Watts



Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful. ~Author Unknown



All great art comes from a sense of outrage. ~Glenn Close



Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't. ~George Lucas



The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. ~Eric Hoffer



An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. ~Jean Cocteau, Newsweek, 16 May 1955



Music is the poetry of the air. ~Richter



History is merely gossip. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan



There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provincialism. ~Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay, 1923



I wish life had an Undo function. ~Author Unknown



Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed. ~Marva Collins



Necessity does the work of courage. ~Nicholas Murray Butler



People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel. ~Voltaire, Traite sur la tolerance



There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them. ~Charles D. Gill



Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. ~Author Unknown