love and i miss you quotes

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. ~Author Unknown



To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. ~Charles Caleb Colton



The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. ~Henri Frederic Amiel



You know that saying, that when God closes a door he opens a window, well, sometimes out of nowhere he'll do you one better and he'll kick a whole wall down. ~Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan, Glee, "Furt"



A full heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Woman's Rule of Thumb: If it has tires or testicles, you're going to have trouble with it. ~Author Unknown



We often repent the good we have done as well as the ill. ~William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823



Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves. ~E.M. Cioran



Marriage, n. A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911



The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912



With neurotics, it's always "some assembly required." ~Terri Guillemets



The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive - a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good, say the mystics of muscle, is Society - a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form, a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself.... The purpose of man's life, say both, is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question. ~Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957 (Thanks, Mary)



Writing is my time machine, takes me to the precise time and place I belong. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people. ~Steve Busby, in Washington Post, 8 July 1974



An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. ~Walter Bagehot



Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it. ~Pablo Casals



Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt. ~Terri Guillemets



Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ~Abraham Lincoln



Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment. ~Iara Gassen



Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. ~William Hazlitt, The English Comic Writers, 1819