Quotes 1921 till 1940 of 3711.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.
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Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
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Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.
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Love, and do what you like.
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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.
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Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
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Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
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Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.
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Man's life is like unto a winter's day, Some break their fast and so depart away, Others stay dinner then depart full fed; The longest age but sups and goes to bed. Oh, reader, then behold and see, As we are now so must you be.
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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
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