Amusement Quote by Logan Pearsall Smith

It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.

— Laurence Sterne

Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to…

— C. S. Lewis

The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

— Hafez

... Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of His, they…

— Charles Dickens

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth.

— William Ellery Channing

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come natural ...

— Anonymous

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart

— Henry Ward Beecher

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of…

— James Herriot

Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.

— Sonya Hartnett