quotes on i love you

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along. ~Samuel Butler, "Speech at the Somerville Club," 27 February 1895



The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



I hire tea by the tea bag. ~Martin Amis, on renting the essentials of life after breaking up with a lover, Money: A Suicide Note (Thanks to bartleby.com for verifying the details of the source.)



The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. ~William James



If a healthy minded person takes an interest in science, he gets busy with his mathematics and haunts the laboratory. ~W.S. Franklin



How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. ~Claude Debussy



If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. ~Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You



Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. ~William Feather



A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it. ~Author Unknown



A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment! ~Douglas Jerrold, The Postman's Budget



Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb



If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. ~Nora Ephron, Heartburn, 1983



Failure is an event, never a person. ~William D. Brown, Welcome Stress!



I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short. ~Shelley Winters



He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed. ~Harry Kalas, on Garry Maddox, 1981



Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. ~Mohammed



Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. ~John Frederick Boyes



It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married. ~Robert Frost



To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. ~Stanislaus I of Poland