Affection Quotes

1417 quotes by 966 authors

Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them. — Sophie Swetchine
Prescription for Life-long Happiness: Purpose enough for satisfaction; Work enough for sustenance; Sanity enough to know when to play and rest; Wealth enough for basic… — Ernie J Zelinski
Many toxic parents compare one sibling unfavorably with another to make the target child feel that he's not doing enough to gain parental affection. This… — Susan Forward
To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in terms of money,… — Wendell Berry
It is not because food, clothes and property are inherently evil that Christians today must lower their standard of living. It is because others are… — Ronald J. Sider
All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first. — Matthew Henry
There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost. — Benjamin Disraeli
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second… — Thomas de Quincey
Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The more merit, the less affection. — Baltasar Gracian
Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and… — Willa Cather
The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. — William Shakespeare
Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward, But then woos best when most his choice is froward. — William Shakespeare
Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first. — William Shakespeare
Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this. — Plato
The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul. — Aristotle
The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
When we are young and again when we are old, we depend heavily on the affection of others. Between these stages we usually feel that… — Dalai Lama
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim. — Henry Fielding

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