black and white quotes about love
Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, "More light." Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's Field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light. ~Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
He who limps is still walking. ~Stanislaw J. Lec
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. ~Lord Chesterfield
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. ~Leo Tolstoy
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling. ~Lucretius
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as you, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear. ~Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch, 1992
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination. ~Mark Twain
No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war. ~Ambrose Bierce
The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex. ~Wynonna Judd
All I pay my psychiatrist is the cost of feed and hay, and he'll listen to me any day. ~Author Unknown
Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves. ~Roger L'Estrange
Everything can be improved. ~Clarence W. Barron
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity. ~Abraham Lincoln, quoted in What Great Men Think Of Religion by Ira Cardiff
It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Crabbed Age and Youth," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. ~Alexander Pope, The Wife of Bath, 1713
All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress. ~Lin Yutang
Women know not the whole of their coquetry. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims
Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. ~Aesop, "The Man and His Two Wives," Fables
Your necklace may break, the fau tree may burst, but my tattooing is indestructible. It is an everlasting gem that you will take into your grave. ~Verse from a traditional tattoo artist's song, as quoted on pbs.org, "Skin Stories: The Art and Culture of Polynesian Tattoo," 2003
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. ~Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta, "Book Buying"