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Humorous Birthday Quotes

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"Age is a number and mine is unlisted." (Unknown)

"If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself." (Ubie Blake)

"Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed." (Anthony Powell)

"As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two." (Sir Norman Wisdom)

"Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life." (Daniel Francois Esprit Auber)

"First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down." (Leo Rosenberg)

"Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened." (Jennifer Yane)

"They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much." (Malcolm Cowley)

"It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen." (Brigitte Bardot)

"Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." (Jack Benny)

"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed." (Charles Schultz)

"Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed." (Anthony Powell)

"They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body." (Unknown)

"If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes." (Euripides)

"Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age." (Richard Armour)

"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it." (Golda Meir)

First Sign of Maturity

"The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left." (Jerry M. Wright)

Forgetting Wive's Birthday

"The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once." (H. V. Prochnow)

Men

Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs." (Unkown)

"Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age." (C.E.M. Joad)

Women

"Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs." (Unknown)

"Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty." (Robert Frost)

Youth

"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children." (George Bernard Shaw)

"Youth is a disease from which we all recover." (Dorothy Fulheim)

"If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes." (Euripides)

Middle Age

"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever." (Don Marquis)

"Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net."
(Franklin Pierce Adams)

Middle Age: When you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms." (Georges Clemenceau)

"Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed." (Anthony Powell)

"Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional." (Chili Davis)

"Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened." (Jennifer Yane)

"At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage." (John Andrew Holmes)

"Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you." (Bennett Cerf)

Wise Quotes

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Wise Quotes

When “you” change, everything else changes.

One does what one is; One becomes what one does

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens. (Jimi Hendrix)

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me !

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change. (Confucius)

Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.

Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.

Criticizing is easy, art is difficult.

Violence won’t solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.

I don’t know what the key to success is, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone. (Bill Cosby)

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

Not to care for philosophy is to be a true philospher.

The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.

The best mind-altering drug is truth.

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. (Lord Chesterfield)

Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. (Henry Ward Beecher)

A winner listens, a loser just waits until it is their turn to talk.

Guns don’t kill people — people do.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. (Lao Tzu)

If you are not part of the cure, then you are part of the problem.

The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. (Jonathan Kozel)

The best things in life are not things.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. (Benjamin Franklin)

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.(Oscar Wilde)

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Beware of a man of one book.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. (Martin Luther King Jr)

A wise man’s actions speak for himself.

Revenge is a Poison meant for others, which we end up swallowing ourselves.

Vengence is a Dark Light that blinds all who seek it.

Don’t argue with Idiots.. They will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Make sure the facts are straight before you start drawing conclusions

If your words aren’t grounded in the truth, they will backfire.

Finish what is on your plate before you reach for another dish.

After you have figured out who you are, share yourself with the world.

Before you make a decision, be aware of how others see the picture.

theres Nothing in this world worth having, that comes easy

More Wise Quotes

Those who fail to prepare, are preparing to fail.

On times you feel spirits are low always remember that tomorrow is a new day, but then why wait? when every minute, every second, every moment we are alive is an opportunity to dawn positive change

Empty cans make the most noise.

never trust anyone completely, you are bound to get deceived

What’s wrong with falling down??

Because you can always get up and start again !

Wedding Quotes and Sayings

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A life without a wife is like a kitchen without a knife.

Love is the foundation of marriage. And respect is the glue to a relationship. So if you breakdown the word “wedding” just remember: “we” comes before “i”.

Do NOT marry if you have not learnt to say ‘SORRY’ sometimes even when you’re RIGHT, for the success of your married life depends mostly on your humble sorry.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up.

In all of the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of plums.

Marriage–a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

My Greatest wish for the two of you is that through the years your love for each other will so deepen and grow, that years from now you will look back on this day, your wedding day, as the day you loved each other the least.

Look down you gods, and on this couple drop a blessed crown.

Here’s to the groom, a man who keeps his head though he loses his heart.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Here’s to these beautiful bridesmaids.

Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day.

It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.

Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.

Love is not singular except in syllable.

It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano.

An anniversary says, “Think of the dreams you have weathered together. They are intimate accomplishments.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they’re on the same side.

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

She knows all about me and loves me just the same.

May she share everything with her husband, including the housework.

Happy marriages begin when we marry the one we love, and they blossom when we love the one we married.

If nothing last forever, will you be my nothing?

“will u marry me” is a powerful thing to say to a girl….

These two are like Romeo and Juliet, Made for each other

May you live as long as you want but never want as long you live.

God made me beautiful so you would be attracted to me. God made me stupid so I would be attracted to you.

choose your love, and love your choice

As you say your “I Do’s” and exchange vows, remember God is your witness. It is a promise made by two but made to the Holy one.

To be married by the person you love the most is the greatest blessing God can give.

Lean on each other’s strengths; forgive each other’s weaknesses.

Once in a lifetime you meet someone who changes everything.

Say “I Do” in deeds not just in words.

You are my life now and forever.

Don’t stop dating your WIFE and never stop flirting with your HUSBAND.

Don’t marry someone you can live with…….marry someone you can’t live without.

Lawyer Quotes

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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

No brilliance is required in law, just some common sense and relatively cleaner fingernails.

America is the paradise of lawyers.

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

He is not a lawyer who can’t take two sides.

A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself.

Good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

He is not a lawyer who can’t take two sides.

A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself.

Good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

A lawyer without books is like a workman without tools.

A Lawyer can do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

Hundred men with thier guns can steal as much as a lawyer with his briefcase can.

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.

Divorce is one of the game that lawyers play.

Lawyers are always more ready to get a man into troubles than out of them.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

A countryman between two lawyers is just like a fish between two cats.

If there wasn’t a penalty for laughing in court, the jury would never be able to hear the evidence.

A good lawyer is a great liar.

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Sometimes even lawyers need lawyers.

Judge – A law student who marks his own examination papers.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Only painters and lawyers can change white to black.

Laws are like spiderwebs.They catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

The are three sides to every story 1. Your storry 2. My story 3. and the True story

A good lawyer makes you believe the truth but a great lawyer makes you believe in the lie.

The Law is not just about punishment, but about living in society!

Love Relationship Quotes

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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. Thomas Merton

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it. Swedish Proverb

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Sam Keen

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul. Victor Hugo

I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you. Roy Croft

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert Heinlein

It's so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it's not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it.... In our hands. Jaka

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable. Dr Joyce Brothers

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. George Sand

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones

There is no remedy for love but to love more. Thoreau

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it. John Lennon

Cute Love Quotes

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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. Thomas Merton

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the the same direction . Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.. Swedish Proverb

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Sam Keen

I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you. Roy Croft

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert Heinlein

It's so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it's not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it.... In our hands. Jaka

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. George Sand

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones

There is no remedy for love but to love more. Thoreau

Family Quotes

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We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.
Shirley Abbott

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. Barbara Bush

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Johann Schiller

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. Erma Bombeck

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. M*A*S*H

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. Jane Howard

Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble. Best to seek out a relative's open arms. Author Unknown

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. John Bowring

Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul. Thomas Moore

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. Virginia Satir

If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion. Ashleigh Brilliant

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. Joyce Brothers

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family. Trey Parker

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted. Paul Pearshall

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed. Anais Nin

Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others. Sidonie Gruenberg

Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance. Milton R. Saperstein

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter. Brad Henry

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back. Mignon McLaughlin

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes our hearts get tangledAnd our souls a little off-kilterFriends and family can set us rightAnd help guide us back to the light. Sera Christann

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.
George Moore

Famous love quotes

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There is only one happiness in life; to love and to be loved. George Sand

"When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams." Dr Seuss

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. Henri Frederic Amiel

The best thing about me is you. Shannon Crown

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. Bette Davis

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. St. Augustine

If you love me, let me know. If not, please gently let me go. Anonymous

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. Sam Keen

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. Heather Cortez

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller

Quotes on Love

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never… never forget it. Curtis Judalet

Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love. Leo Buscaglia

Love is like a roller coaster,

Once you have completed the ride,

you want to go again. Unknown

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.

Viktor E. Frankl

Love at first sight is often cured by a second look.

Love is sweet when it’s new, but sweeter when it’s true.

Love is like a butterfly, it settles upon you when you least expect it.

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy. Drew Marrymore

Love is like a glass door… sometimes you don’t see it, and it smacks you right in your face.

Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk. Anonymous

Forever is not a word…rather a place where two lovers go when true love takes them there.

Unknown

One’s first love is always perfect until one meets one’s second love. Elizabeth Aston

Where the sacred laws of honour are once invaded, love makes the easier conquest. Addison

Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one’s breath. Eve Glicksman

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do. Myrtle Auvil

When they asked me what I loved most about life, I smiled and said you. Unknown

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other. Francois

I have learned not to worry about love;

But to honor its coming with all my heart. Alice Walker

I speak in hugs & kisses because true love never misses I will lead or follow to be with you tomorrow. Unknown

One does not fall “in” or “out” of love. One grows in love. Leo Buscaglia

Love appears in moments, how long can I hold a moment, as my moment fades, I yearn to catch sight or sound of you, to feel the surging of my heart erupt into joyous sounds of laughter. Chris Watson

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. Unknown

Within you, I lose myself. Without you,

I find myself wanting to be lost again. Unknown

We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. Marie E. Eschenbach

Love is the only satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. Erich Fromm

Love is a puzzle posed by the emotions and not likely to be solved by reason. Anon

Love is hard to get into, but even harder to get out of. Unknown

They say love is blind…and marriage is an institution. Well, I’m not ready for an institution for the blind just yet. Mae West

Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock. Unknown

Love gives light even in the darkest tunnel. Anonymous

Love is always within. When you try to dramatize your love, you lose the depth of the love.

Charan Singh

The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself. Albert Camus

To love is to admire with the heart:

to admire is to love with the mind. Theophile Gautier

If you love someone you would be willing to give up everything for them, but if they loved you back they’d never ask you to. Anon

Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.

Sappho

If love is a game, it has to be the hardest game in the world. After all, how can anyone win a game where there are no rules? CODY MEYERS

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don’t have it, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough. Ann Landers

Good Quotes

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. Albert Einstein

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. Albert Einstein

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. Albert Einstein

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Buddha

I can live for two months on a good compliment. Mark Twain

Golf is a good walk spoiled. Mark Twain

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. Mark Twain

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. Mark Twain

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Mark Twain

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. Mark Twain

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.Mark Twain

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Mark Twain

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Mark Twain

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. Mark Twain

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. Mark Twain

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. Mark Twain

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. Buddha

Best Love Quotes

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We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Sam Keen

Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond my control. Unknown Author

The spaces between your fingers were created so that another's could fill them in. Unknown Author

Today I caught myself smiling for no reason... then I realized I was thinking about you. Unknown Author

If I could be any part of you, I'd be your tears. To be conceived in your heart, born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips. Unknown Author.

Don't say you love me unless you really mean it, because I might do something crazy like believe it. Unknown Author

Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. Bananna

It's amazing how someone can break your heart, but you still love them with all the little pieces. Unknown Author

You know you're in love when you don't wanna go to sleep at night because your life is better than a dream. Unknown Author

Should I smile because we are friends? Or cry because we'll never be anything more? Ian

Love is giving someone the power to destroy you...but trusting them not to. Unknown Author

if you cant get someone off your mind they are probably supposed to be there. Unknown Author

I'm trying really hard not to cry over you because every tear is just one more reminder that I don't know how to let you go. Unknown Author

If I could give you one thing in life, I would give you the ability to see yourself through my eyes, only then would you realize how special you are to me. Unknown Author

The worst feeling you'll ever feel is sitting next to the person who means the world to you knowing that you mean nothing to them. Unknown Author

Missing you quotes

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For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. - Judy Garland

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. - Kay Knudsen

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. - Hans Nouwens

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. - Claudia Ghandi

Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy. - Eskimo Proverb

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
- William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet.

I miss you like the sun misses the flowers, like the sun misses the flowers in the depths of winter, instead of beauty to direct it's light to, the heart hardens like the frozen world which your absence has banished me to. - William Thatcher, Spoken by Heath Ledger in movie, A Knight's Tale.

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. - Kay Knudsen

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. - William Cowper

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. - John Dryden

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. - Hans Nouwens

What shall I do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere I see thy face?
How shall I charm the interval that lowers
Between this time and that sweet time of grace?
- Frances Anne Kemble

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
- W.S. Merwin

All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.
- William Shakespeare

Within you I lose myself...
Without you I find myself
Wanting to be lost again.
Author Unknown

Famous Love Quotes

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Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, & the senses. Lao Tzu

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Ingrid Bergman

Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Leo Tolstoy

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without. Unknown Author

To love is human. To be indulgent is also human. Latin proverb

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain. Abraham Crowley

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. John Donne

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found. Sir Winston Churchill

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. Benjamin Franklin

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. Henry Ward Beecher

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. La Rochefoucauld

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well... Vincent van Gogh

Teen Love Quotes

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. John Donne

To the world you are one person, but to one person you are the world. Unknown Author

And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you. Coliye

Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart. Unknown Author

To translate love into lyrics, is an impossible task, cause you'll know love when you hear it, it all depends on who asks. Daniel long

You are the first thing I think about when I wake up and the last thing I think about when I go to sleep, ensuring I have a pleasant day and sweet dreams. Unknown Author

Loving a person is loving everything but the person. Being in love with that person is loving everything and that person. Denise

Everyone says that you only fall in love once, but that's not true, every time I hear your voice I fall in love all over again. Unknown Author

I knew I loved you when I realized that there was no one else I would rather laugh, cry and make memories with. S. Zubrinic

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. Dr. Seuss

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. Henri Frederic Amiel

No man is worth your tears, and when you find the man who is, he'll never make you cry. Unknown Author
Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Leo Tolstoy

I laugh, I love, I hope, I try I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you. Colin Raye

I get the best feeling in the world when you say hi or even smile at me because I know, even if its just for a second, that I've crossed your mind. Unknown Author

Valentine’s Day Quotes

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When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When you cried you had my urge to hold you. When you said you loved me, you had my heart forever. Unknown Author

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. Shakespeare

On Valentine’s Day... my love asked me if I wanted anything special... all that I replied was "with you, everyday is valentine’s day... I don't need an excuse to love you more one day than the next" Jocelyn

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! Thomas Hood
If I could be anything in the world I would want to be a teardrop because I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips. Unknown Author

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. Unknown Author

If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. Unknown Author

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein

You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without. Unknown Author

I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon. Unknown Author

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Unknown Author

For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. Rosemonde Gerard

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. Henry Ward Beecher

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. Unknown Author

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. La Rochefoucauld

I love You Quotes and Sayings

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I've fallen in love many times... always with you. Unknown Author

For twas not into my ear you whispered But into my heart Twas not my lips you kissed But my soul. Judy Garland

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. Unknown Author

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. George Moore

For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. Rosemonde Gerard

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. Unknown Author

My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, both are infinite. William Shakespeare

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. Unknown Author

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. Robert Browning

The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. Unknown Author

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. Unknown Author

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"

Short Love Quotes

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A god could hardly love and be wise. Publilius Syrus

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. Phyllis Diller

A heart that loves is always young. Greek proverb

Love is a thing aye full of busy dead. Geoffrey Chaucer

A legal kiss is never as good as stolen one. Guy de Maupassant

Love is an egotism of two. Antoille de Salle

A love song is just a caress set to music. Sigmund Romberg

Love is a passion which kindles honor into noble acts. John Dryden

Love is a spirit all compact of fire. William Shakespeare

A lovesick person looks in vain for a doctor. West African proverb

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens

Love is an illusion. Oscar Wilde

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility. Thomas Carlyle

Love is beyond reflection. Japanese proverb

A virtuous is a man's best treasure. Muhammad

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. Washington Irving

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. Unknown Author

My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, both are infinite. William Shakespeare

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. George Moore

I've fallen in love many times... always with you. Unknown Author

For twas not into my ear you whispered But into my heart Twas not my lips you kissed But my soul. Judy Garland

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. Unknown Author

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949

For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. Rosemonde Gerard

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. Unknown Author

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. Robert Browning

The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. Unknown Author

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. - Unknown Author

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. - Jonathan Carroll, "Outside
the Dog Museum"

Positive Attitude Quotes

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“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect It's successful outcome." (William James )

"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances." (Martha Washington)

“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are."
(Muhammad Ali)

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

“I'ts not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life ;it is how you handle what happens to you. “ (Zig Ziglar)

"Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars." (Frederick Langbridge)

"Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it." (Merle Miller)

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you thing about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are." Norman Vincent Peale

"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Always look at what you have left.Never look at what you have lost." Robert H. Schuller

"If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad." Denis Waitley

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." Lou Holtz

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Buddha

Funny Quotes About Family

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I never forget my wife’s birthday. It’s usually the day after she reminds me about it.
Author Unknown

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven’s lieutenants.
Shakespeare

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint is not intended.
Robert Frost

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
Francis Bacon

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
Michael Levine

In some families, 'please' is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was 'sorry'.
Margaret Laurence

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns

If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.
Ashleigh Brilliant

Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.
Author Unknown

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
Elizabeth II

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
Charles Dickens

My family is really boring. They have a coffee table book called 'Pictures We Took Just to Use Up the Rest of the Film.'
Penelope Lombard

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
Jane Howard

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.
Jeff Foxworthy

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
George Bernard Shaw

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance -waiting for the bathroom.
Bob Hope

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Douglas Adams

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
Chinese Proverb

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.
Dodie Smith

Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.
Moby

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
Robert Frost

Quotes Friendship

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Friends are like snowflakes, none of them are the same!

A road to a friend’s house is never long.

A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be somewhere else.

Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. (Abraham Lincoln)

Friends are God’s way of taking care of us.

A friend will bail you out of jail a best friend will be sitting next to you saying “that was great”.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.

Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things.

I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you. (Ann Richards)

Count your age with friends but not with years.

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. (Henry David Thoreau)

An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.

When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. (Edgar Watson Howe)

Because you mean a lot to me, when you cry, I’ll cry, when you laugh, I’ll laugh, when you jump out a window, I’ll laugh again

Friendship is love without his wings! (Lord Byron)

Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. (Euripides)

When you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life.

Loving someone is like honey, so sticky that you will never be parted and so sweet!

True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.

If I had to sum up friendship in one word, it would be comfort. (Terri Guillemets)

Your friend is the person who knows all about you, and still like you.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. (Walter Winchell)

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. (Charles Caleb Colton)

Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise.

Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. (Aristotle)

To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

I live for the nights i won’t remember, with the friends I’ll never forget.

If you were a tear in my eye i would never want to cry because i would be scared to lose u – To my friend

Side by side or miles apart, dear friends are always close to the heart.

In my friend, I find a second self. (Isabel Norton)

A Friend in need, is a Friend indeed!

If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn’t. I would be at the bottom waiting to catch them

A Memory Lasts 4eVeR Never Does it Die, True Friends Stay together and Never Say Goodbye

A Friend Asks For Food While A Best Friend Raids The Fridge.

Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world…

Friendship is Love without his wings.

A ring is round it has no end, and that’s how long I’ll be your friend

A friend will call you an idiot, but a best friend will not only call you one but act like one with you.

Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you.

Your friends are what will matter in the end.

God made us best friends because he knew that our moms couldn’t handle us as sisters

Boyfriends stab you in the heart friends stab you in the back but best friends NEVER carry knives

A good friend helps you when you fall; a best friend laughs at you and trips you again.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

A good friend will be there for you when you cry, But a best friend will have a wet shoulder because of it.

Friends are angels who help us to soar when our wings have forgotten how to fly.

Of all the door’s I have gone through in life, none was more inviting, welcoming and heart filled than the one that led me to you.

If Best friends are forever than why is it so hard to hold on when u feel like you should be letting go?

Funny Family Quotes

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