Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficu |
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. |
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. |
Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. |
Maid of Athens, ere we part, / Give, oh give me back my heart! |
Maidens like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair |
Man being reasonable must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication; Glory, the grape, love, gold - in these are sunk - The hopes of all men and of every nation |
Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms. |
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication. |
Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. |
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence |
May none these marks efface! / For they appeal from tyranny to God. |
Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men. |
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. |
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. |