hurting love quotes

An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented. ~Lemony Snicket



Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897



He who can be a good son will be a good father. ~Author Unknown



There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way." ~C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, 1943



I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated His ability. ~Oscar Wilde



If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up. ~Tommy Bolt



A dog may be man's best friend, but the horse wrote history. ~Author Unknown



He that is not jealous is not in love. ~St. Augustine



The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. ~Stephen King



On CBS Radio the news of Ed Murrow's death, reportedly from lung cancer, was followed by a cigarette commercial. ~Alexander Kendrick



Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. ~Theodore Geisel



The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. ~Gustave Flaubert



Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. ~Jean de la Bruyere Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. ~Jean de la Bruyere



Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed. ~William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, 1693



If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct. ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin



Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety. ~Australian Traffic Rule, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren, 1938



President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt to be historic, the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.... The bill that lay on the polished mahogany desk was born in violence in Selma, Alabama, where a stubborn sheriff... had stumbled against the future. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967



Success is due less to ability than to zeal. ~Charles Buxton



It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. ~Ansel Adams



Women know not the whole of their coquetry. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims