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loving all men was the most astounding Rome had ever seen.
JaneAddams PEACE, 1931
370. Love is the only force capable of pulling down barriers which may stand between matter and spirit, visible and invisible, individual and God.
Anwar al-Sadat PEACE, 1978
371. How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
Albert Einstein PHYSICS, 1921
372. There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Martin Luther King PEACE, 1964
373. No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated.
Heinrich Böll LITERATURE, 1972
374. A loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.
Albert Camus LITERATURE, 1957
375. What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland.
Samuel Beckett LITERATURE, 1969
376. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway LITERATURE, 1954
377. Love reciprocated is always rejuvenating.
T. S. Eliot LITERATURE, 1948
Replying to a toast by the sculptor Jacob Epstein on his seventieth birthday in 1958, the year after his marriage at sixty-eight to Valerie Fletcher, age thirty
378. In the security bred of many harmless marriages, it had been forgotten that love is no hothouse flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed, but, flower or weed, whose scent and color are always wild!
John Galsworthy LITERATURE, 1932
379. You don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
William Faulkner LITERATURE, 1949
380. How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love.
Albert Camus LITERATURE, 1957
381. The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw LITERATURE, 1925
MARRIAGE
382. Married love, enduring through a thousand vicissitudes, seems to me the most beautiful of miracles, even if the most common.
François Mauriac LITERATURE, 1952
383.1 believe marriage to be the best and most important relation that can exist between two human beings.
Bertrand Russell LITERATURE, 1950
384. If the world of the twentieth century cannot succeed in this one thing, married love, then it has committed suicide.
Sinclair Lewis LITERATURE, 1930
385. You should look around carefully at the members of the opposite sex, and pick one out that you'd like to be with all your life. Get married young, and stay married.
Linus Pauling CHEMISTRY, 1954; PEACE, 1962
386. Incidentally, you're my fiancée now.
George Hitchings MEDICINE, 1988
Proposal to Joyce Shaver Hitchings, M.D., while she was driving him to an event
387. You can be married in the church if you want to, but not to me.
John Bardeen PHYSICS, 1956; PHYSICS, 1972
To his fiancée
388. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."
Ernest Hemingway LITERATURE, 1954
389. It's only an improbable accident when a woman and a man who are both of them big enough not to be jealous of each other's bigness do meet—and then, probably, when they do meet, one of them will already be married to some little pretentious squirt and they can't marry!
Sinclair Lewis LITERATURE,
JaneAddams PEACE, 1931
370. Love is the only force capable of pulling down barriers which may stand between matter and spirit, visible and invisible, individual and God.
Anwar al-Sadat PEACE, 1978
371. How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
Albert Einstein PHYSICS, 1921
372. There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Martin Luther King PEACE, 1964
373. No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated.
Heinrich Böll LITERATURE, 1972
374. A loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.
Albert Camus LITERATURE, 1957
375. What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland.
Samuel Beckett LITERATURE, 1969
376. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway LITERATURE, 1954
377. Love reciprocated is always rejuvenating.
T. S. Eliot LITERATURE, 1948
Replying to a toast by the sculptor Jacob Epstein on his seventieth birthday in 1958, the year after his marriage at sixty-eight to Valerie Fletcher, age thirty
378. In the security bred of many harmless marriages, it had been forgotten that love is no hothouse flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed, but, flower or weed, whose scent and color are always wild!
John Galsworthy LITERATURE, 1932
379. You don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
William Faulkner LITERATURE, 1949
380. How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love.
Albert Camus LITERATURE, 1957
381. The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw LITERATURE, 1925
MARRIAGE
382. Married love, enduring through a thousand vicissitudes, seems to me the most beautiful of miracles, even if the most common.
François Mauriac LITERATURE, 1952
383.1 believe marriage to be the best and most important relation that can exist between two human beings.
Bertrand Russell LITERATURE, 1950
384. If the world of the twentieth century cannot succeed in this one thing, married love, then it has committed suicide.
Sinclair Lewis LITERATURE, 1930
385. You should look around carefully at the members of the opposite sex, and pick one out that you'd like to be with all your life. Get married young, and stay married.
Linus Pauling CHEMISTRY, 1954; PEACE, 1962
386. Incidentally, you're my fiancée now.
George Hitchings MEDICINE, 1988
Proposal to Joyce Shaver Hitchings, M.D., while she was driving him to an event
387. You can be married in the church if you want to, but not to me.
John Bardeen PHYSICS, 1956; PHYSICS, 1972
To his fiancée
388. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."
Ernest Hemingway LITERATURE, 1954
389. It's only an improbable accident when a woman and a man who are both of them big enough not to be jealous of each other's bigness do meet—and then, probably, when they do meet, one of them will already be married to some little pretentious squirt and they can't marry!
Sinclair Lewis LITERATURE,
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