Quotes! (Words all grown up.)

Love suffers long, and is kind, love envies not;  love vaunts not itself, 
is not puffed up, does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is 
not easily provoked, thinks no evil;  rejoices not in iniquity, but re-
joices in the truth;  bears all things, believes all things, hopes all 
things, endures all things.  Love never ends.

                                      — Paul
                                       (Roughly from the King James 
                                        Version of the Bible, modernized 
                                        slightly by me)

In a love affair, forever is at least over the weekend.

                                      — Anon.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

                                      — Peter Ustinov

Love is a hole in the heart.

                                      — Ben Hecht

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings 
infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can 
grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it 
possible to see the other whole against the sky.

                                      — Rainer Maria Rilke
                                       (translated by Jane Barnard Greene 
                                        and M.D. Herter Norton)

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than 
he is in a woman, any woman, with beautiful legs.

                                      — Marlene Dietrich 

Men love with their eyes;  women love with their ears.

                                      — Zsa Zsa Gabor

The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.

                                      — Margo Kaufman 

A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man's a man only as long 
as he can.

                                      — Moms Mabley 

Women, it's true, make human beings, but only men can make men.

                                      — Margaret Mead

To an ambitious man, what he already has is nothing.  It's what he doesn't 
have that counts.

                                      — Cletus Grahame from Gordon R. 
                                        Dickson's book "Tactics of Mistake"


I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a 
department store, and he wanted my autograph.

                                      — Shirley Temple

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

                                      — Lord Acton

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

                                      — Adlai Stevenson

No man is fit to be trusted with power.... Any man who has lived at all 
knows the follies and wickedness he's capable of.

                                      — C.P. Snow

My Uncle Naibob wasn't a failure.  He just started out at the bottom and 
liked it there.

                                      — Minnie Pearl

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, 
diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

                                      — Groucho Marx

Success has made failures of many men.

                                      — Cindy Adams

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first
examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many poeple and on 
how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some 
experience with another.

                                      — W.H. Auden

Generally speaking, the more civilized and polished a people become, the 
less poetic its ways; everything weakens as it mellows.

                                      — Diderot

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

                                      — Sainte-Beuve

The discipline of poetry teaches poets, at least, that they often have to 
say things they can't pretend to understand... In composing a poem, one 
often seems to move directly from ignorance to revelation.

                                      — Kathleen Norris

There is only one trait of the writer.  He is always watching.

                                      — Morley Callaghan

Nothing worse could happen than to be completely understood.

                                      — Carl Jung 

I want to know why, if men rule the world, they don't stop wearing 
neckties.

                                      — Linda Ellerbee

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally 
to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

                                      — Marlo Thomas

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are 
as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

                                      — Maureen Reagan

Men, their rights and nothing more;  Women, their rights and nothing less.


                                      — Susan B. Anthony 

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

                                      — Katherine Anne Porter 

The great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe 
it.

                                      — Isabel Patterson

A horse sweats.  A man perspires.  A lady shines.

                                      — Clara Lsyle Seavy
                                       (My grandmother, 
                                        a true Southern belle.)

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

                                      — Rupert Brooke

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are 
feeling sensible.

                                      — W. H. Auden