love quotes for him short

Brains are an asset, if you hide them. ~Mae West



The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. ~Thomas Carlyle, Characteristics



Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? ~Jules Feiffer



Many of us believe that wrongs aren't wrong if it's done by nice people like ourselves. ~Author Unknown



The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh



Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. ~George Bernard Shaw



It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast. ~W.J. Cameron



Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back. ~Gwyn Thomas



When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. ~Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind, 1955



The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art. ~Terri Guillemets



A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. ~E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951



The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history. ~Benedetto Croce, History as the Story of Liberty



There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. ~Stan Kelly-Bootle



We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. ~Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philosophique, 1764



Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. ~Francis Bacon



Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. ~Abraham Flexner



When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own. ~Lenore Coffee



Kittens can happen to anyone. ~Paul Gallico