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“But I account it worth All pangs of fair hopes crost— All loves and honors lost,— To gain the heavens, at cost Of losing earth.”
Theodore Tilton (1835–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sir Marmaduke's Musings, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“God loves an idle rainbow, Not less than labouring seas.”
Ralph Hodgson (1871–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man and his loves make a man and his life.”
Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Saxon Song" (1923)
“The greater cats with golden eyes Stare out between the bars. Deserts are there, and the different skies, And night with different stars. They prowl the aromatic hill, And mate as fiercely as they kill, To roam, to live, to drink their fill; But this beyond their wit know I: Man loves a little, and for long shall die.”
Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O why do you walk through the fields in gloves, Missing so much and so much? O fat white woman whom nobody loves, Why do you walk through the fields in gloves, When the grass is soft as the breast of doves And shivering-sweet to the touch? O why do you walk through the fields in gloves, Missing so much and so much?”
Frances Cornford (1886–1960) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To a Fat Lady Seen from the Train", from Poems (Hampstead: Priory Press, 1910) p. 20
“When I walk into a room, I know that everyone in it loves me. I just don’t expect them to realize it yet.”
Byron Katie (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When a boy drives down the serpentine road of mental health, feeling depressed and isolated because he feels no one who knows the real him loves him, no one needs him, and there’s no hope of that changing, he may one day find a cliff and drive off.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My own mother is always telling us how well behaved our children are, but little does she know how we got them that way! She would turn grey if she knew, I cane her perfect grandson, but she loves the result.”
Ray Comfort (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Help me," Allison says, but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away.”
Daniel Handler (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have found an honest and excellent man [ Eugène Manet, brother of Edouard Manet ] who, I believe, sincerely loves me. I have entered into the positive life after having lived for a long time in by chimeras.”
Berthe Morisot (1841–1895) first seen 1875 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quote from Berthe's letter to her brother Tiburce, 1875; as cited in The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot, with her family and friends, Denish Rouart - newly introduced by Kathleen Adler and Tamer Garb; Camden Press Lon…
“Why hold ye so my heart, nor dimly let Through your deep leaves the light of yesterday, The faded glimmer of a sunshine set? Is it that in your darkness, shut from strife, The bread of tears becomes the bread of life? Far from the roar of day, beneath your boughs Fresh griefs beat tranquilly, and loves and vows Grow green in your gray shadows, dearer far Even than all lovely lights and roses are?”
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821–1873) first seen 1860 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dank fens of cedar, hemlock branches gray" lines 6–14, Poems, 1860
“My Father, it is dark!" "Child, take my hand, Cling close to me; I'll lead thee through the land, Trust my all-seeing care, so shalt thou stand 'Midst glory bright above." Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?”
François Fénelon (1651–1715) said by 1715 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...often see the glamorous side of this career. ...It's really saying it's not like that and I'm just the girl next door. There's always somebody who either loves you or hates you, and you just have to have a thick skin.”
Ashley Tisdale (born 1985) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tisdale talks about possible third single on TRL. MTV. Retrieved July 20 2007.
“No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.”
Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Brethren, understand that the gospel is a gospel which brings a present salvation; and try to feel that it is not presumption, but simply out of the very fundamental principle of it, when you are not afraid to say, "I know that my Redeemer is yonder, and I know that He loves me.”
Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let then no doubt, Celinda, touch, Much less your fairest mind invade: Were not our souls immortal made Our equal loves can make them such.”
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648) said by 1648 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.”
George Henry Lewes (1817–1878) said by 1878 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all goodness; dispensing with the chorus of approving voices; replacing all vain self-reliance with a Divine strength; and with the peace of a reconciled nature consoling the inevitable sorrows of a devoted life.”
James Martineau (1805–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The essential difference between that knowledge which is, and that which is not conclusive evidence of Christian character, lies in this: the object of the one is the agreement of the several parts of a theological proposition; the object of the other is moral beauty, the intrinsic loveliness of God and Divine things. The sinner sees and hates; the saint sees and loves.”
Gardiner Spring (1785–1873) said by 1873 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 365.
“I read once that the true mark of a pro — at anything — is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession.”
Paul Halmos (1916–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God loves the noise as much as the signal.”
Lewis M. Branscomb (1926–2023) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 42: Quote inspired on Branscomb's 1980 essay "God loves the noise
“To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.”
William Mountford (1816–1885) said by 1885 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895). p. 364.
“Every living being on earth loves life above all else. The smallest insect, whose life lasts only an instant, tries to escape from any danger in order to live a moment longer. And the desire to live is most developed in man.”
Inayat Khan (1882–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the disciples were capable of making wrong requests - requests that were self-serving, patently materialistic, shortsighted or immature - I feel sure that we are too. Fortunately God loves us too much to say yes to inappropriate requests.”
Bill Hybels (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Keep on praying because the Father does listen. He loves our company, he wants us to endure in prayerfulness and he is eager to do whatever is best for us.”
Bill Hybels (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.”
Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498) said by 1498 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 124
“He has always been here, and He is here now. He loves you and is working actively for your good in His own way.”
John Townsend (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sweet and lovely, sweeter than the roses in May, And she loves me, there is nothing more I can say.”
Gus Arnheim (1887–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As long as the aristocracy is healthy, the name of the sovereign sacred to it, and it loves the monarchy passionately, the State is unshakeable, whatever be the qualities of the king. But once it loses its greatness, its pride, its energy, its faith, the spirit withdraws, the monarchy is dead, and its cadaver is left to the worms.”
Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821) said by 1821 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Resignation,—not to a whirlwind of inexorable forces, not to a brutal fate or destiny, not to powers who cannot see or hear or feel, but to One Who lives forever, and Who loves us well, and Who has given us all that we have, ay, life itself, that we may at His bidding freely give it back to Him.”
Henry Liddon (1829–1890) first seen 1871 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sermon II: "Humility and Truth" (February 19, 1871), p. 29.
“Ladies and gentlemen, I accept the flowers as a memento of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the southern states. I accept it more particularly as it comes from a colored lady, for if there is any one on God's earth who loves the ladies I believe it is myself.”
Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821–1877) said by 1877 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In one year I learned as much about anti-Semitism as would be enough for three mens' lifetimes. For you cannot wound the sacred convictions of a people, what their heart loves and respects, without causing deep pain and shedding the heart's blood. It was 17 years ago, and my heart bleeds yet.”
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A refusal to believe that God loves us is the unbelief which destroys the soul.”
Edward Norris Kirk (1802–1874) said by 1874 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My dong is super-friendly and loves getting rubbed by children. #CareerEndingTwitterTypos”
Patton Oswalt (born 1969) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 4 November 2013 tweet
“How lucky I was to have played for the Pittsburgh Steelers fans. A proud, hard-working people, who loves their football, and their players.”
Jack Lambert (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Death must obliterate all memories and affections and ideas and laws, or the awakening in the next world will be amid the welcomes, and loves and raptures of those who left us with tearful farewells, and with dying promises that they would wait to welcomes us when we should arrive. And so they do. Not sorrowfully, not anxiously, but lovingly, they wait to bid us welcome.”
Randolph Sinks Foster (1820–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Blessed loves! how happy they have made us on the earth; what will they be when they have deepened through ages, with no alloy of envy or suspicion or selfishness or sorrow?”
Randolph Sinks Foster (1820–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jesus loves me—this I know, For the Bible tells me so”
Anna Bartlett Warner (1827–1915) first seen 1860 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Love of Jesus", in Susan Warner's Say and Seal (1860), vol. 2, ch. 8
“Says she loves me Yes, yes she does Gonna show me tonight, yeah She got the way to move me, Cherry”
Neil Diamond (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In principle, I am an anarchist. Kurt Vonnegut once said he was an agnostic who respects Jesus Christ. I am an anarchist who loves democracy.”
Kenzaburō Ōe (1935–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everybody loves you when you're dead. Everyone is suddenly your dearest friend. Nobody talks no dirt about you. But life, it just goes on above your head, when you're dead.”
Tod A (born 1965) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Everybody Loves You (When You're Dead)", Ask Questions Later (March 30, 1993).
“Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.”
Napoleon (1769–1821) said by 1821 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A scholar who loves comfort is not worthy of the name.”
Confucius (551–479 BC) said by 479 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion — several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know a youth who loves a little maid— (Hey, but his face is a sight for to see!) Silent is he, for he's modest and afraid (Hey, but he's timid as a youth can be!)”
W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) said by 1911 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When maiden loves, she sits and sighs, She wanders to and fro - Unbidden tear-drops fill her eyes, And to all questions she replies With a sad "heigh ho!”
W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) said by 1911 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We must lose our loves, On each beast and bird that moves Turn an envious look.”
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are no longer fighting a great enemy, we are asserting a great principle: that the talents and dreams of average people — their warm human hopes and loves — should be rewarded by freedom and protected by peace. We are defending the nobility of normal lives, lived in obedience to God and conscience, not to government.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source