Interesting Quotes

[honeychile]

I got these from Better Homes and Gardens online. I don't know if you can access them without getting the emails or not; I have a free subscription and find a lot of interesting items. So, with marriage in the air, I thought I'd post these, at least:

A Kiss

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. --Christian Nestell Bovee

Kisses are the messengers of love. --Danish Proverb

Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath. --Eve Glicksman

I feel worthy of every kiss I laid upon you for in each of them went part of my heart. --Alberto Carlos Campos

Is not a kiss the very autograph of love? --Henry Finck

I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss. --William Shakespeare (Henry VI)

And when my lips meet thine, Thy very soul is wedded unto mine. --H. H. Boyesen

When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past-- For years fleet away with the wings of the dove-- The dearest remembrance will still be the last, Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love. --Lord Byron

A kiss is the shortest distance between two. --Henny Youngman

A thing of use to no one, but prized by two. --Robert Zwickey

We kiss and it feels like we have just shrugged off the world. --Jim Shahin

How delicious is the winning Of a kiss at Love's beginning. --Thomas Campbell

A kiss is something you cannot give without taking and cannot take without giving. --Anonymous

Marriage

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. --Andre Maurois

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage. --Martin Luther

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. --Mignon McLaughlin

The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes. --Amy Grant

Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry. --Tom Mullen

Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. --Ambrose Bierce

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life? To strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting. --George Eliot

Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner, it feels limitless, not limited. --Gloria Steinem

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. --Dr. James C. Dobson

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. --Joseph Barth

In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic, a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, an enabler rather than a reformer. --H. Norman Wright and Gary J. Oliver

My heart is ever at your service. --William Shakespeare

No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying. --Unknown

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash. --Dr. Joyce Brothers

Love:

Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity. --Unknown

To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten. --Unknown

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. --When Harry Met Sally (Movie)

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. --"The Rose" (Song by Bette Midler)

Some people come into our lives, Leave footprints in our hearts, And we are never ever the same. --Unknown

I love thee, I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old... --Bayard Taylor

'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Never frown because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile. --Unknown

The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. --Pascal

To love is not to look at one another, but to look together in the same direction. --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale. --Anonymous

Love is something eternal...the aspect may change but not the essence. --Vincent van Gogh

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew. --Unknown

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. --Dr. Karl Menninger

Did my heart love till now? Forswear it sight, For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night. --William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)