Affection Quotes

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The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many… — B.F. Skinner
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can… — Michel de Montaigne
We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem… — Michel de Montaigne
I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? — William Shakespeare
The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems,… — Plato
I do love the road, because for me, the road is very comfortable, and it's very much what I've always wanted to do. It's one… — Margaret Cho
If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would… — John Ruskin
To be loved is the birthright of every mewling babe, but, once grown, a man is not assured of such affection. — Katherine Marsh
Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration. — W. Somerset Maugham
Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father. — Ben Jonson
To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any… — Samuel Johnson
The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration;… — William McFee
Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from… — Joseph Conrad
Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of… — Robertson Davies
Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I… — Robertson Davies
The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator. — Mary Astell
As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong… — Wendell Berry

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