"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart." – Washington Irving

Love quotes May 5, 2010

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.” – Washington Irving

"To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life." – Walter H. Pater

“To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.” – Walter …

"We purchased Monmouth on Valentine’s Day in 1978. At first, we thought about moving here, even interviewed at Trinity School for our daughters." – Ron Riches

“We purchased Monmouth on Valentine’s Day in 1978. At first, we thought about moving here, even interviewed at …

"The flames kindled on the 4 of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them" – Thomas Jefferson

“The flames kindled on the 4 of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to …

"The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand." – Cesare Lombroso

“The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.” – Cesare Lombroso

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do.

“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do …

"Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine." – Charles Dickens

“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.” – Charles …

"If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work." – D.H. Lawrence

“If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, …

"Ninety-nine percent of the world’s lovers are not with their first choice. That’s what makes the jukebox play." – Willie Nelson

“Ninety-nine percent of the world’s lovers are not with their first choice. That’s what makes the jukebox play.” …

"It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns" – Publius Cornelius Tacitus

“It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite …

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens