Passion Quotes

Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.

Anon

Man's attitude toward great qualities in others is often the same as toward high mountains - he admires them but he prefers to walk around them.

Courage is the lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.

Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

Give us men to match our mountains, Give us men to match our plains: Men with empires in their purpose And new eras in their brains.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Abigail Van Buren

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

Finley Peter Dunne

A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite, lose her waistline, her bustline, her ability to bear a child, even her sense of humor, but none of that implies a loss of her sexuality, her femininity

Most of life is routine-dull and grubby, but routine is the mountain that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.

Stephen Leacock

The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.

I see love, like art, as an obsession. Maybe that's an overly romantic view of human existence, but I'm an overly romantic human being. If love, like rock and roll, doesn't consume me 24-7, it's not love. It can be respect, appreciation, admiration, wonderment, it can be a world of glory and a lifetime of peace, but I can't call it love. Love burns me and confuses me. Love's a light that can't be extinguished.

She came downstairs like a doe stepping into a clearing on the first day of hunting season. I felt like a coward. I was lower than dirt. I had used every trick in my book to get her to come downstairs. I had manipulated her emotions, cheated and wormed to beat her at this game we were playing. But then I saw her, and I was so happy. I knew I would have burned the building down for the sight of her running toward me out of the flames.

Candice Raquel Lee

The ruling passion be it what it will The ruling passion conquers reason still.

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

Happy are those lovers who when their senses require rest can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet sleep then comes and lasts until the body has recovered its general harmony. On awaking the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action.

Giacomo Casanova

If we seek the pleasures of love passion should be occasional and common sense continual.

Robertson Davies

Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain causes eyes to sparkle cheeks to glow blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.

Anonymous

Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

I have loved to the point of madness that which is called madness that which to me is the only sensible way to love.

Françoise Sagan

My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex she objects.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed half the problems of bed are solved.

I prefer love over sex.

Enrique Iglesias

I know nothing about sex because I was always married.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion history romance and art would be useless.

Honoré de Balzac

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

Benjamin Disraeli

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught which else free will Would not admit.

Give me that man That is not passion's slave.

William Shakespeare

The human race has been set up. Someone somewhere is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started?

You call it madness but I call it love.

Don Byas

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice-T

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Love is not altogether a delirium yet it has many points in common therewith.

Soul meets soul on lover's lips.

Percy Bysshe Shelly

I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.

Mae West

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

Bob Hope

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Stephen Leacock

She walks in beauty Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

Love teaches even asses to dance.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

W Somerset Maugham

Anyone can be passionate but it takes real lovers to be silly.

Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

Hunter S. Thompson

If love is blind why is lingerie so popular?

Anonymous

It does not matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

Patrick Campbell

Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures.

I need sex for a clear complexion but I'd rather do it for love.

Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry I think of my sex life. And if I have to laugh well I think of my sex life.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

George Santayana

Disappointments should be cremated not embalmed.

Henry S. Haskins

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

Maria Edgeworth

Hands have not tears to flow.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Where the mind is past hope the heart is past shame.

John Lyly

Nobody has ever measured even poets how much a heart can hold.

Zelda Fitzgerald

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