Life is short, so fall in love, dear maiden, before your…

“But where do we find what's lasting? Where do the deathless things hide?”

— Adam Zagajewski

I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.

— Marianne Moore

Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the most industrious…

— John Adams

“She could have rambled with all the fervor of a woman who had loved one entity for longer than most races live, and with…

— Darrell Drake

There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health…

— Willa Cather

In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference, and age…

— Leopold Hartley Grindon

Always man needs woman for his friend. He needs her clearer vision, her subtler insight, her softer thought, her winged soul, her pure and…

— Mary C. Ames

Before Midnight is one of the years best movies. Full to the brim with humor, heartbreak, and ravishing romance. Richard Linklater directs with ardor…

— Peter Travers

As each man's strength gives out, as it no longer responds to his will, the inertia of the whole gradually comes to rest on…

— Carl von Clausewitz

In proportion as the ardor of divine love brings you nearer to God, so will a larger concourse of saintly brethren flock to you.…

— John Cassian

Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and…

— Andre Gide

I remind you that I belong with great ardor to everyone and for this reason I am suffering immensely for all.

— Pio of Pietrelcina

He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's…

— Sun Tzu

“Fogoso gozo fogo.”

— Filipe Russo

But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero