Affection is responsible for nine-tenths

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

C. S. Lewis

Leave a Comment February 10, 2012

Absence diminishes mediocre passions

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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A woman knows the face of the man

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Honore de Balzac

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A very small degree of hope

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Stendhal

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A pair of powerful spectacles

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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A man reserves his true and deepest love

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

George Jean Nathan

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A loving heart is the beginning

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Thomas Carlyle

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A kiss makes the heart young

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

Rupert Brooke

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Love is a smoke

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. – William Shakespeare

Leave a Comment February 13, 2011

I’m a little valentine

I’m a little valentine

Red and White

With ribbons and lace

I’m a beautiful sight

I can say, “I Love You”

On Valentine’s Day

Just put me in an envelope

And give me away

Leave a Comment February 12, 2011