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Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The world is indebted for all triumphs
which have been gained by reason and humanity
over error and oppression.
- Thomas Jefferson
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Samuel Johnson [also attributed to Oscar Wilde]
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The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid,
but he who conquers that fear.
- Nelson Mandela
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle
than the courage of a final moment;
but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
- John F. Kennedy
The great gift of Easter is hope -
Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God,
in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love,
which nothing can shake.
- Basil C. Hume
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
- H. L. Mencken
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
Love is like an hourglass,
with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
- Jules Renard
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
Love is only a dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day -
and another, in case it doesn't rain.
- Mae West
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
Love is metaphysical gravity.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Love thy neighbor -
and if he happens to be tall,
debonair and devastating,
it will be that much easier.
- Mae West
A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine
I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed ma hair.
- the movie The Cabin in the Cotton
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is a grave mental disease.
- Plato
My boyfriend and I broke up.
He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
- Rita Rudner
Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
When you are courting a nice girl
an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder
a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
Love is loving what your lover loves.
- Anonymous
Oh, come on, Shrek, wake up and smell the pheromones!
- the movie Shrek (2001)
My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous
A woman in love can't be reasonable -
or she probably wouldn't be in love.
- Mae West
The most important words in the English language
are not "I love you" but "It's benign."
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there.
Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
- Jimmy Carter
I want a girl just like good old mom,
who is different in every way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man
is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
- Mark Twain
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
- Anonymous
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If love is the answer,
could you please rephrase the question.
- Lily Tomlin
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This is my ultimate fantasy:
watching QVC with a credit card
while making love and eating at the same time.
- Yasmine Bleeth
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm not talking about lust.
A woman in lust wants chocolate.
A woman in love wants diamonds.
- the movie How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
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