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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours.


Charles Caleb Colton

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CHARLES CALEB COLTON If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -Charles Ca...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We all have demons that were trying to fight; mine just happens to be you.
ANMOL ANDORE That’s what happened when you were possessed by a woman. All of a sudden you stopped running from ...
TARRYN FISHER On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to es...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to es...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not t...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman...
HELEN ROWLAND To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman...
LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY If you lived with her, you must have been in love with her.'
'No. I wanted to be in love with h...
NORA ROBERTS If you love her, you cannot see her . . . because love is blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Fill your life with love and you will be healthy, young, beautiful and full of energy and strength.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY For a woman to deny the necessity of true love in her life would be to deny herself, and her creator...
DWAIN K. WHITE SR. Make him love you,” Ruthless Me whispered. “Make it so he can’t live without you. The devil yo...
C.J. ROBERTS If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never ...
SHERRILYN KENYON You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to love her.
GORDON ATKINSON To love is to be afraid. You are frightened, deathly terrified, that something will happen to those ...
MARIE LU Caleb," I say, "I love you."
His eyes gleam with tear as he says, "I love you, too, Beatrice.
VERONICA ROTH The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion hu...
CHARLES COLTON What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feel...
EZRA TAFT BENSON All I want is to love you and fill you with happiness.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE To be happy with a man you have to understand him a lot and love him less , but...to be happy with a...
BHALCHANDRA She held herself until the sobs of the child inside subsided entirely. I love you, she told herself....
H. RAVEN ROSE ...love was desire and desire was an emptiness.
TARRYN FISHER If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fa...
AYN RAND You should make a woman angry if you wish her to love
PUBLILIUS SYRUS If I lay here
If I just lay here
would you lie with me and just forget the world?
SNOW PATROL Need-love says of a woman, "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfo...
C.S. LEWIS She is Cuba. If you want to love her, you have to be with her, but you can't be with her in her ...
ANDY GARCIA Here's the promise that you will love her the way she needs to be loved. You will comfort her and su...
DON IMMEL May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through...
THOMAS S. MONSON There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her i...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Caleb,' I say. 'I love you.
VERONICA ROTH The woman is a reflection of her man's love. A well-loved woman sees the world through the lenses of...
ALEXANDRA PINTO You are painting a picture of a woman who cannot think for herself in almost all circumstances,
JAMES POHL If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance,...
SENA JETER NASLUND An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her care...
JANE AUSTEN All things will eventually be yours,if you use with dexterity the instrument called patience.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have...
DALAI LAMA To marry a woman who you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop lovin...
ALBERT CAMUS Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more tha...
TARRYN FISHER You sort of fell in love with Jane when you met her. She was exuberant, original, strong-minded and ...
JACOB EPSTEIN It's when you think of me that I have goosebumps there with you.
ANTHONY T.HINCKS Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tear...
CHARLES DICKENS What you do not love with all your soul you cannot reach with all your soul.
MARIANA FULGER The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know i...
LIONEL RICHIE Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand of it. Love every leaf, every ray of God'...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The amount of her madness
depends on the amount of her love.
If she is crazy, frantic, ins...
MELODY LEE Materialistic things cannot make you truly happy; it’s your faith in God that can bring real satis...
LATIKA TEOTIA One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM People say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, an...
MITCH ALBOM All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.
JOHNNY CASH If I love you, what business is it of yours?
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE If I love you, what business is it of yours?
JOHANN VON GOETHE If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
SOURCE UNKNOWN If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
We are faithful as long as we love, but you
demand faithfulness of a woman without love, and th...
LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH If you choose money over love, you will always be poor.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO If love be rough with you, be rough with love;Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Where you are with what you have, what you can do.
DHARM BABU You will not know when her charm,smile,talent will overtake you, once you feel in love with her you ...
ARDIT BALISHA If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
KHALIL GIBRAN If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
KAHLIL GIBRAN That which is of great value cannot be attained through aggression.
You will be able to find th...
OSHO If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with
STEPHEN STILLS Nothing is more private than a woman's body; it is her physical, emotional, and moral citadel. S...
LEWIS B. SMEDES The sadest part of love life is when you cannot live with and without the one you love
AMIT ABRAHAM If you have to fall in love, fall in love with the magnificent beauty of a sunset. That love will be...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Life is what you make of it…if you stumble, pick yourself back up, if you fail turn it into a step...
N. S. COLE I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a wo...
YVES SAINT LAURENT Sad thing for a woman to be loosely free as she goes from one man to another, but later to find that...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love;
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Why do you call her 'love'?" James asks. "I've heard you say that before, too. A lot. Are you in lov...
TAHEREH MAFI Inspire with Love.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO You may think that love cannot last forever, but if you were to wake up with love in your heart ever...
DEVIN FRYE Your woman tells me you will hunt me down and eat my marrow while I live."

"Did she?" Cha...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Do you really expect me to fall apart every time another woman throws herself at you? Because, if th...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS Don't let two men fall in love with you, girls. It's not the sort of thing that ends well."
-Un...
ALLY CARTER I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up wi...
RICK YANCEY There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you l...
ARTHUR PINERO There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you l...
ARTHUR WING PINERO You don't want to love--your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you'r...
D.H. LAWRENCE Staying in a relationship with someone who doesn't love him/herself, is a direct reflection of how m...
JACINTA MPALYENKANA You don't love a woman because she's beautiful, She is beautiful because you love her.
OLASOT Sometimes I wake up wanting to tell you to leave everything you claim to hold dear behind and be wit...
AHMED MOSTAFA A memory made alone abides in isolation; such is love that is never shared. Fill your life with shar...
LYNDA I FISHER This is the sacred secret of love. Love a person for their heart and only their heart, and you will ...
SUZY KASSEM If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pa...
ANNE FADIMAN Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
AGATHA CHRISTIE I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, ...
CARL SANDBURG After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy?
EMILY GIFFIN If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her hu...
DARK JAR TIN ZOO There will be a time when love is beautiful and passionate and nothing else will exist but you and t...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR A light-hearted point to consider: Do you know the number one reason a man falls in love with a woma...
SUSAN C. YOUNG Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are ...
JOHN STEINBECK Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better tha...
KHALIL GIBRAN Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better tha...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

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CHARLES CALEB COLTON Le moment présent a un avantage sur tous les autres : il nous appartient.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most en...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must fi...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are bot...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, t...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Through the proportion of those who think be extremely small, yet every individual flatters himself ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse in a mill
CHARLES CALEB COLTON War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so sav...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is this paradox in pride--it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The old ways are the safest and surest ways
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old sy...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one pro...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquain...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, real...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON