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Love is an irresistible desire

 


Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. - Seneca

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. - Benjamin Franklin

Never spend your money before you have it. - Thomas Jefferson

When anger rises, think of the consequences. - Confucius

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. - Sophia Loren

Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. - Otto von Bismarck

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. - Henry David Thoreau

Take what you can use and let the rest go by. - Ken Kesey

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. - G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14

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