Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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A mourner o'er the humblest grave.
- Lord Byron (George Gor... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Love and being in love are not the same. A woman takes the man she loves into her body and absorbs h... CHLOE THURLOW It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and L... MARGARET FULLER It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and L... MARGARET FULLER Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman,... ANDREA DWORKIN Love and being in love are not the same thing. The woman takes the man she loves into her body and a... CHLOE THURLOW It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER The queen of diamonds
wears her rings
A life of fortune
material things
The queen of hearts
has a bi... RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. AMY BLOOM You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest goo... FELIX ADLER Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest goo... FELIX ADLER Love of country is like love of woman--he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good... FELIX ADLER Love of country is like love of woman -- he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest go... FELIX ADLER Life is a game and true love is a trophy. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love. MORIHEI UESHIBA Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM You can't take love for granted! You need to be patient. And just as flowers take time to blossom, l... AVIJEET DAS For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, the canker,... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) There are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all other loves, and I think that she must ... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It seemed to me an error in reasoning for a man to isolate a woman he loves from all the circumstanc... MILAN KUNDERA I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ... TAMMARA WEBBER A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction. OSCAR WILDE Life is a risk. CARMELO ANTHONY They may not know each other to say it, but it was never hidden. How much ever they hated each other... PARUL WADHWA 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 A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not l... MARCEL PROUST Without music, life is a journey through a desert. PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. POPE FRANCIS To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... It is the lies he's telling her - as he has been, Nassun understands suddenly, her whole life - that... N.K. JEMISIN The first duty of a woman in her all life is to obey. VIKRANT PARSAI The woman is a reflection of her man's love. A well-loved woman sees the world through the lenses of... ALEXANDRA PINTO Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love... HONORE DE BALZAC Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love... FRANKLIN P. JONES While outside the window, the raindrops pitter pattered on leaves that shivered and sparkled, inside... AVIJEET DAS His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Life is a school of probability. WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning. LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Everybody in life is a chameleon. MELANIE CHISHOLM Life is a grand party. EZRA MILLER I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love AUGUST STRINDBERG She's committed to her marriage and loves her husband and daughter very much and she believes in the... MARSHA BERRY She hasn’t got it all figured out...far from it, in fact. But she loves God and she loves to ... MANDY HALE It is the simple things that are in the ocean. People think that simple things are on the seashore, ... C. JOYBELL C. The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she c... AUDREY HEPBURN I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth. DOUG HUTCHISON One of the strongest loves I’ve ever witnessed is the love a mother has for her child. RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Many a woman is in a relationship with or married to her man not because she loves him but only beca... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA He loves her like a gambler loves a fast racehorse or a desperate man loves whiskey. That kind of lo... DOROTHY ALLISON The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a w... NAOMI WOLF A woman can spend her day cleaning the floors so her house can look presentable.
A man that she love... MARLENE M. CHAVEZ All mankind loves a lover. RALPH WALDO EMERSON She is always pretending she loves me, but look at her now. Am I in her thoughts? Is there a tender ... SHERWOOD ANDERSON When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI My life is a struggle. VOLTAIRE Because I think she loves you more than she loves sex. And you love her more than you love alcohol, ... KRISTA RITCHIE Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one w... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS A tribute to all woman who are the strength of life, the rock of her family, the gentle heartbeat to... JASMINA SIDEROVSKI All's well that carries on well AMIT ABRAHAM Buffy loves Angel. He loves her. And I love Ho Hos. JOSS WHEDON If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a... ERICH FROMM Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Love. Do you feel it? It encircles you in its embrace of simplicity. Moment by moment love is there ... COLLEEN LAUKKA Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea!
Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free.
-... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe. GEORGE HERBERT Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that. JAMES DYSON Life is a lot like skateboarding. LIL WAYNE For me, life is a bowl of cherries. SISSY SPACEK Life is a right, not collateral or casual. SUHEIR HAMMAD He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY Empowered Women 101: A confident woman doesn't make her whole life purpose her man. She understands ... SHANNON L. ALDER I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things ... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI There is no greater heaven than the heart of a loving mother She takes care of you when you are... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA These are moments of love and ecstasy. Deeply moving moments when we will fly! Fly together in the a... AVIJEET DAS My love for these books, at its purest, is not really about Peeta or anything silly and girly. I lov... ROXANNE GAY You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. ANON. You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. ANONYMOUS You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her IVAN PANIN Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance. OSCAR WILDE If I moved back, my mother would love for me to move in because she absolutely loves her boys. 12 bo... TERRY BRADSHAW Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. BETTE DAVIS If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fa... AYN RAND A woman has but two loves in life: the one who broke her heart and the one she spends the rest of he... LIZ NEWMAN Self-love is the source of all our other loves. PIERRE CORNEILLE Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can't even imagine a wor... RONALD REAGAN Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose. BEN OAK
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LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Fame is the thirst of youth. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very t... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervant... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON 'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close ... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I stee... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days --... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whore's la... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Think not I am what I appear. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution,... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spit... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON That low vice, curiosity! LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell! LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thou... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, ... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pict... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of b... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and... 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