“The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end”
61 quotes · page 2 of 4
“The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end”
“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind ”
“Life is half spent before we know what it is ”
“While we are postponing, life speeds by”
“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops”
“The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies ”
“Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world”
“Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved”
“Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object”
“There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol”
“Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love”
“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity”
“Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us; footprints on the sands of time.”
“All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never; every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever.”
“A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay”
“Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction”
“The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come”
“As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion”
“Paper napkins never return from a laundry - nor love from a trip to the law courts”