Fond Quotes

478 Fond quotes by 387 unique authors

A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed… — Christian Nestell Bovee
The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse — Benjamin Franklin
What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach,… — William Shakespeare
Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem. — Edmund Spenser
Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour… — May Sarton
Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining. — Robert Burns
Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from… — Juvenal
Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest. — John Keble
If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover; Therefore are the lindens ever Chosen seats of each fond lover. — Heinrich Heine
Studious of ease, and fond of humble things. — Ambrose Philips
The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed… — Francois Guizot
If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them. — Paula Rego
I'm very fond of food. I get hungry, and I like to eat almost all the time. — Laura Schlessinger
I was very fond of strange stories when I was a child. — Wu Cheng'en
Psychoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future… — Stephen Grosz
Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness. — Honore de Balzac
Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch. — William John Locke
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. — Charles Caleb Colton
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply… — Marguerite Duras
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. — E. M. Forster
I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles… — Mark Haddon

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