short love sayings and quotes

I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. ~Comte de Mirabeau


Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don't mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives. ~e.e. cummings, Introduction, Poems, 1954


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


He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. ~Sydney Smith


And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living! ~Tertullian


How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. ~Josh Billings


Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. ~Ben Hecht, Miracle of the Fifteen Murderers


Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise. ~Proverbs 20:1


The sun is nature's Prozac. ~Astrid Alauda, 1990


Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle. ~Marya Mannes, But Will It Sell?, 1964


Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, it is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver. ~Jack Handey


My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. ~Henny Youngman


Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough. ~Confucius, Analects


Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. ~World Health Organization, 1948


There are aphorisms that, like air planes, stay up only while they are in motion. ~Vladimir Nabokov


You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Author Unknown


A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ~Jean Paul Richter


Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first. ~Josh Billings


The challenge of retirement is how to spend time without spending money. ~Author Unknown