love and care quotes

Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward. ~Job 5:7



We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed.... This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light. ~J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com



Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions. ~George Santayana



It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover. ~Marge Piercy



If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death. ~Charles Sanders Peirce



If you look at his portraits they always give you an indelible impression of his great height. So does his life. Height of purpose, height of ideal, height of character, height of intelligence. ~David Lloyd George



We love men. We just don't want to see them naked. ~Two Nice Girls



Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston



The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. ~e.e. cummings



You can never plan the future by the past. ~Edmund Burke, "Letter to a Member of the National Assembly"



I never pray to God to make a putt. I pray to God to help me react good if I miss a putt. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez



God created sex. Priests created marriage. ~Voltaire



It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business. ~Dolley Madison



Today is the last day of some of your life. ~Author Unknown



Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic. ~John A. Logan



A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. ~James Joyce, Ulysses



Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men - and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented.... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort - as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails. ~Robert Ingersoll, Crimes Against Criminals



A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid. ~Jack Benny



To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him. ~Jeremy Taylor