Monday 15 April 2013

Quotations for Birthdays



Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.  ~Dan Bennett


Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.  ~Truman Capote


Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.  ~Bob Hope


First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly.  ~Branch Rickey


Youth is a disease from which we all recover.  ~Dorothy Fulheim


Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.  ~Herbert Asquith


I'm sixty years of age.  That's 16 Celsius.  ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997


You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience.  ~Author Unknown


I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.  ~Author Unknown


So mayst thou live, dear! many years,
In all the bliss that life endears,...
~Thomas Hood, "To My Daughter, On Her Birthday"


A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.  ~Robert Frost


Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.  ~Jean Paul Richter


The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.  ~Lucille Ball


May you live to be a hundred years
With one extra year to repent.
~Author Unknown


Birthdays are good for you.  Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.  ~Larry Lorenzoni


Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.  ~Author Unknown


Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.  ~Jennifer Yane


Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.  Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  ~Tom Wilson

Quotations for Birthdays


We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.  ~Author Unknown


There is still no cure for the common birthday.  ~John Glenn


A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun.  Enjoy the trip.  ~Author Unknown


Believing hear, what you deserve to hear:
Your birthday as my own to me is dear...
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
~Martial


Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year:  The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.  ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson


Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.  ~Chili Davis


Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.  ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990


Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.  ~Sam Ewing


Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children.  ~George Bernard Shaw


In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups.  In old age, we yearn to be kids.  It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.  ~Jerry M. Wright


When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.  It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.  ~Mark Twain


You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.  ~Ogden Nash


They say that age is all in your mind.  The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.  ~Author Unknown


We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881


Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.  ~Don Marquis


Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.  ~Charles Schulz

Quotation about love



There's no denying that the only real unhappiness in life is losing a man.... Death isn't nature's greatest mistake - falling in love is.  If we didn't do that, all the misery in life would be cut right out of it.  Oh my goodness, so would all the fun.  So, what are you gonna do about it.  ~When Ladies Meet, 1941 movie written by Rachel Crothers, John Meehan, Leon Gordon, S.K. Lauren, and Anita Loos, spoken by the character Bridgie Drake  (not sure if this is also in the 1933 movie or 1932 play - anyone know?)


While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones. ~Rabindranath Tagore


Life can be hard but if you've got somebody to love — yeah! ~Terri Guillemets


Love is why I came here in the first place. ~John Denver


Your love has gone all through my body
like honey in water,
as a drug is mixed into spices,
as water is mingled with wine....
~Author Unknown


Love is metaphysical gravity.  ~R. Buckminster Fuller


Love is my religion - I could die for it.  ~John Keats


It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.  ~Dan Greenburg


Sunshine surrounds the earth as love surrounds our souls. ~Terri Guillemets


Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.  ~Author Unknown


Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.  ~Author Unknown


If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?  ~Author Unknown


Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.  ~Author Unknown


A man finds love and is satisfied.  A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.  ~Kay Knudsen


Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.  ~Henry Louis Mencken


Love knows no answer for it does not question.  ~Silent Lotus


You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.  ~Author Unknown


Sometimes we make love with our eyes.  Sometimes we make love with our hands.  Sometimes we make love with our bodies.  Always we make love with our hearts.  ~Author Unknown


True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them.  ~Author Unknown


You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well.  ~Author Unknown


Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. ~Author Unknown


There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Trip over love, you can get up.  Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown


The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ~Thomas Merton


Love is not blind - it sees more, not less.  But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.  ~Julins Gordon


And what's romance?  Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose, and it's always daisy-time.  ~D.H. Lawrence


Love is given to us as a time, but to keep it always, we must make it a place. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.  ~Author Unknown


No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


Be it in the garden, the nursery or the bedroom, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


I am so tired - so tired.
I see too many people,
Read too many books.
Do too many things.
I hate the theaters,
I hate my work,
I want you, - only you....
Come to me between the cool sheets
And let me burrow my head in your shoulder....
~Pauline Cohn, "Rest"


It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you.  ~Author Unknown


I'm far from perfect, but I'll be perfect for that imperfect person that's perfect for me.  ~Amanda Bynes


Passion spins around love and I am dizzy around you always. ~Terri Guillemets


When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others.  That is what the world calls a romance.  ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray


Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.  Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.  ~Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin


Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Come live in my heart and pay no rent.  ~Samuel Lover


Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.  ~Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons


If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.  ~Emma Goldman, The Tragedy of Women's Emancipation


I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art.  ~Thomas Moore


When I am gone, my love, do not look for me in the places we used to go to together.  Look for me in the places we always planned to go to together.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Love isn't blind, it's retarded.  ~Don Foster and Susan Beavers, Two and a Half Men


Free love? as if love is anything but free.  Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.  ~Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love


Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.  ~Miguel de Unamuno


If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.  ~Michel de Montaigne


I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.  ~Javan


Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.  ~Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon  (Thanks, David)


Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.  ~Francesca M. Cancian


What I need to live has been given to me by the earth.  Why I need to live has been given to me by you.  ~Author Unknown


A heart that loves is always young.  ~Greek Proverb


If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.  ~Claudia Ghandi


It's hard to defeat a woman in love. ~Terri Guillemets


Falling in love is so hard on the knees.  ~Aerosmith


In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.  ~Hans Nouwens


Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. ~Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain, 1922


In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head. ~Terri Guillemets


The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. ~G.K. Chesterton


I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long.  If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.  ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes


Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.  ~George Bernard Shaw


The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.  ~Edward Thomas


[W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.  ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally

Quotation about love



Candle light, moon light, star light,
The brightest glow is from love light.
~Terri Guillemets


Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky. ~V.F. Calverton


Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. ~Author unknown, attributed to an 8-year-old named Greg


What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you. ~Alan Zweibel and Jessie Nelson, The Story of Us


Ah! a blessing beyond all fate
My sole mate 'tis my soul mate.
~Pixie Foudre


Love is a Mystery.  You can't find it; it has to find you.  ~Author Unknown


The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.  ~Victor Hugo


Love is the greatest refreshment in life.  ~Pablo Picasso


Your fortune is misfortune if it is not Love.  ~Silent Lotus


Sometimes a couple stays together for the sake of the kids — two kids who pledged to be forever true. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


I was half in love with her by the time we sat down.  That's the thing about girls.  Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1945


Love means nothing in tennis, but it's everything in life.  ~Author Unknown


Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.  ~Author Unknown


You see, I'd never stopped to wonder why it was that millions of boys all over creation weren't seeing her and instantly falling in love with her, worshipping her body and mind and soul and spirit as I did.  It never occurred to me until this precise moment that maybe lots of boys wouldn't have thought she was gorgeous.  Maybe she only seemed so gorgeous to me because - and this is the shocker - her face came alive when I walked in front of it.  ~Author Unknown (I got this from Sassy magazine years ago but then lost the magazine - anyone know the attribution?)


Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint.  ~Turkish Proverb


What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.  ~Pearl Bailey


Love is how you earn your wings. ~Karen Goldman


Love is when you can be your true self with someone, and you only want to be your true self because of them. ~Terri Guillemets


It is really one moment of looking love dead in the eye that takes us everywhere in a flash. ~Swami Chetanananda


Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever.  He can only lose the woman.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.  ~Germaine Greer


We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love.  It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.  ~W. Somerset Maugham


We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. ~Robert Fulghum, True Love


Before you pledge your undying love to someone, make them promise they won't die. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ~Voltaire


In a deep moment of love, thinking stops. The moment is so intriguing, the moment is so tremendously powerful, the moment is so intensely alive, that thinking stops. You are simply in awe, a great wonder surrounds you. ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh


Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.  ~William Shakespeare

Quotation about Love



    
 
Love is like a friendship caught on fire.  In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.  As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.  ~Bruce Lee


Life only starts when love comes.  ~From the movie Bill of Divorcement, 1932


Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes


What good is love if you never ask anything of it?  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.  ~George Jean Nathan


Love makes time pass; time makes love pass.  ~French Proverb


True love stories never have endings. ~Richard Bach  (Thanks, Bonnie)


The past is behind us, love is in front and all around us. ~Terri Guillemets


It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


When you're attracted to someone it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously, so what we know as fate is two neuroses knowing that they're a perfect match.  ~Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron, and David S. Ward, Sleepless in Seattle


Platonic love is love from the neck up.  ~Thyra Smater Winsolow


The music may have stopped but my heart beats to another tune, this rhythm called love.  ~A.C. Van Cherub


We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.  ~Tom Robbins


The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.  ~Margaret Atwood


Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~Rumi


Love! Immortality! it speedily became so hot in my breast, that I thought the geographers had misplaced the equator, and that it now ran directly through my heart. And from my heart poured out the feeling of love;—it poured forth with wild longing into the broad night. The flowers in the garden beneath my window breathed a stronger perfume. Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart feels most powerful emotions in the night, when it believes itself to be alone and unperceived, so also do the flowers, soft-minded, yet ashamed, appear to await for concealing darkness, that they may give themselves wholly up to their feelings, and breathe them out in sweet odours. Pour forth, ye perfumes of my heart, and seek beyond yon blue mountain for the loved one of my dreams! ~Heinrich Heine, "The Hartz Journey" (1824), Pictures of Travel, translated from German by Charles Godfrey Leland, 1855


Love is not a matter of what happens in life.  It's a matter of what's happening in your heart.  ~Ken Keyes


Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~Lao Tzu


You really shouldn't say "I love you" unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget. ~Author unknown, attributed to an 8-year-old named Jessica


Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. ~John Milton


In the midst of pain and urgent trouble we can not realize the supreme happiness of being loved — sweetest and deepest of all meditations.... ~Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens


Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. ~Zelda Fitzgerald


For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Love is the law of life. ~Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Quotation about Love



Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve.  ~Percy Bysshe Shelley


Love is the poetry of the senses.  ~Honoré de Balzac


Love is a game that two can play and both win.  ~Eva Gabor


Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house.  ~Author Unknown


The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters.  It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.  ~Francis Quarles, Emblems


Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby.  ~Paul-Jean Toulet


We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.  ~Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach, Aphorism


We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.  ~François, duc de La Rochefoucauld


Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.  ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651


Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved.  ~Christopher Paul Rubero


A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.  ~Latin Proverb


The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate


Be everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.  ~Amrit Desai


I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,
After the day's great sun.
~Charles Hanson Towne


A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be. ~Nicholas de Chamfort


Love is not consolation. It is light. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ~Erich Segal


A loving heart is the truest wisdom. ~Charles Dickens


Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. ~Fyodor Dostoevski


[T]here is no hope for us in this painful, mysterious world save in giving ourselves to love. ~Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens


Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ~Elinor Glyn


True love, to whom my heart is prey,
How dost thou hold me in thy sway,
That in each day I find no fault
But daily wait for love's assault.
~Pernette du Guillet


A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, "I love you."  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.  ~William Butler Yeats


Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Smiles escape from clouds above and angels ring a chorus of your love.  ~Daniel, @blindedpoet


You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.  ~Author Unknown


Love is what you've been through with somebody.  ~James Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960


Love is being stupid together.  ~Paul Valery


In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.  ~Charles Baudelaire


Open your heart and take us in,
Love - love and me.
~W.E. Henley


On a cloudy night, when nothing seems above, still, there is love.  Always love.  For something, from someone.  It's never done.  Never.  ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com


Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love.  I'd stepped in it a few times.  ~Rita Rudner


Fall not in love therefore; it will stick to your face.  ~Tony Hendra, "Deteriorata"


Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so.  ~Charles du Bos


Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.  ~D.H. Lawrence


What an infinity of bliss the possession of your love seemed to me — the future so full of passionate sweet life that my spirit shrank blinded from trying to explore it; I stopped content with the delicious sense of that moment alone. ~Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens


Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.  ~Cathy Carlyle


I love you like crazy, baby
'Cuz I'd go crazy without you.
~Pixie Foudre


What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another.  ~William Carlos Williams


I learned the real meaning of love.  Love is absolute loyalty.  People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades.  You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them.  And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting.  ~Sylvester Stallone


Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee,
It passed into thy lifelong regency.
~Gilbert Parker


The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.  ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670


At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.  ~Plato


As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.  ~William Shakespeare


Quotation about Love




When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.  ~Natalie Clifford Barney


Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.  ~Rabindranath Tagore


It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.  ~John Bulwer


'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. ~Lord Byron


A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown


Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. ~Author unknown, as printed in The Hoosier Farmer


You know you have found love when you can't find your way back. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. ~Lynda Barry


Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891


Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. ~Karl Menninger


If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life. ~Cher


Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult. ~David Frost


Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new. ~Ursula K. Le Guin


Love is not singular except in syllable. ~Marvin Taylor


Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. ~John Ciardi


People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ~Douglas Yates


While duty measures the regard it owes
With scrupulous precision and nice justice,
Love never reasons, but profusely gives,
Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all,
And trembles then, lest it has done too little.
~Hannah More


Ah me! why may not love and life be one? ~Henry Timrod


Take away love and our earth is a tomb. ~Robert Browning


Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. ~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet CXVI"


He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. ~Leo Tolstoy


It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. ~Marguerite de Valois


A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.  ~Mother Teresa


You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.  ~Werner Erhard


Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation.  And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Love me and the world is mine.  ~David Reed


It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely.  Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.  ~Paul Valéry, Tel quel, 1943


The love game is never called off on account of darkness.  ~Tom Masson


They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above.  ~E.Y. "Yip" Harburg and Fred Saidy, dialogue just before the song "Old Devil Moon" in the musical Finian's Rainbow  (Thanks, Katherine!)


Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.  ~David Byrne


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


You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.  ~Dr. Seuss


Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.  ~Zora Neale Hurston


Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.  ~Emily Brontë


The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


An old man in love is like a flower in winter.  ~Portuguese Proverb


Will you love me in December as you do in May,
Will you love me in the good old fashioned way?
When my hair has all turned gray,
Will you kiss me then and say,
That you love me in December as you do in May?
~James J. Walker


I don't think you can keep someone you truly love at arm's length on purpose, they'll always end up in your arms.  ~Holly Nichole Miller


Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.  ~Honoré de Balzac

Quotations about Love



Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.  ~Lord Dewar


When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.  ~Natalie Clifford Barney


Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.  ~Rabindranath Tagore


It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.  ~John Bulwer


'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. ~Lord Byron


A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown


Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. ~Author unknown, as printed in The Hoosier Farmer


You know you have found love when you can't find your way back. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. ~Lynda Barry


Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891


Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. ~Karl Menninger


If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life. ~Cher


Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult. ~David Frost


Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new. ~Ursula K. Le Guin


Love is not singular except in syllable. ~Marvin Taylor


Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. ~John Ciardi


People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ~Douglas Yates


While duty measures the regard it owes
With scrupulous precision and nice justice,
Love never reasons, but profusely gives,
Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all,
And trembles then, lest it has done too little.
~Hannah More


Ah me! why may not love and life be one? ~Henry Timrod


Take away love and our earth is a tomb. ~Robert Browning


Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. ~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet CXVI"


He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. ~Leo Tolstoy


It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. ~Marguerite de Valois


A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.  ~Mother Teresa


You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.  ~Werner Erhard


Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation.  And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Quotations about Love




Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.  ~Henry David Thoreau


To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Without love, what are we worth?  Eighty-nine cents!  Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.  ~Laurence Marks, M*A*S*H, "Love Story," original air date 7 January 1973, spoken by the character Hawkeye


A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.  ~Frank A. Clark


Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.  ~Robert Heinlein


The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it.  You and you alone make me feel that I am alive.  Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.  ~George Moore


We loved with a love that was more than love.  ~Edgar Allan Poe


If I love you, what business is it of yours?  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


The hardest-learned lesson:  that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.  ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld


My debt to you, Belovèd,
Is one I cannot pay
In any coin of any realm
On any reckoning day.
~Jessie B. Rittenhouse


We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.  ~Quoted by Alexandra Penney in Self


Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.  ~Jean Anouilh


When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.  ~Bill Balance


Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.  ~Rose Franken


Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.  ~Ben Hecht


A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"
(Thanks, Krystel)


Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.  ~Swedish Proverb


Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.  ~Henry Van Dyke


Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.  ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975


Passion makes the world go round.  Love just makes it a safer place.  ~Ice T, The Ice Opinion, quoted in Reader's Digest, "Quotable Quotes," February 2002


Love is no respecter of age or practicality
Neither morality: unabashed
She enters where she will
Unheeding that her immortal fires
Burn up human hearts...
~Phillip Pulfrey, from Beyond Me, www.originals.net

Quotations about Love






Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière


When love is not madness, it is not love.  ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca


Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.  ~Malagasy Proverb


Do I love you because you're beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella


For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard


Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate!  ~Sandra J. Dykes


Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.  ~Mark Overby


Love is a symbol of eternity.  It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.  ~Author Unknown


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.  ~Author Unknown


Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.  ~Proverb


The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.  ~Theodor Reik, Of Love and Lust, 1957


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


Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595


The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.  ~Albert Ellis


Love one another and you will be happy.  It's as simple and as difficult as that.  ~Michael Leunig


Who would give a law to lovers?  Love is unto itself a higher law.  ~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524


Who, being loved, is poor?  ~Oscar Wilde

Quotations about Love





The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.  ~Mother Teresa


Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.  ~Albert Einstein


There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.  It is God's finger on man's shoulder.  ~Charles Morgan


You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.  ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"


Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.  ~Ovid


Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.  ~Eric Fromm


Love has no desire but to fulfill itself.  To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.  To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.  ~Kahlil Gibran


Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners.  Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.  ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975


Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.  ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949

tamil rhymes





Thursday 11 April 2013

kajal agarwal profile

KAJAL AGARWAL PROFILE

 
Name: Kajal Agarwal
Date of birth: June 19th, 1985
Place of birth: Mumbai
Marital Status: Unmarried
Height: 5 ft 4 inches
Education: Graduation in Mumbai
Attraction spot: Her smile and eyes
Languages Known: English, Hindi and Marathi

Family Background

Father’s Name: Vinay Agarwal
Mother’s Name: Suman Agarwal
Sister’s Name: Nisha Agarwal


Film Background

Debut Film: Kyun! Ho Gaya Na (Bollywood)
Debut in Tollywood: Lakshmi Kalyanam
Famous movies: Chandamama, Bommalattam,Magadheera,Arya 2, Om Shanti, Darling, Brindaavanam
Latest movies: Veera, Singham (Bollywood), Dhada
Upcoming movies: Maatraan, The Business Man

Awards

Kajal Agarwal won the CineMAA Award for Best Actress for her performance in movie Brindaavanam.

Worked as: An actress and Model

Favorites

Favorite Color: Blue, white and Red
Favorite Clothes: Jeans,t-shirts and Sarees
Favorite Place: Kerala, Goa, Mauritius
Favorite Sports: Cricket
Favorite Food: Hyderabadi Biryani, any Spicy foods
Favorite Actor: Mahesh Babu, Shahrukh Khan
Favorite Actress: Kajol, Preity Zinta
Hobbies: Music, Watching films and dancing

Achievements

Kajal Agarwal started her acting from 2004 in Bollywood with movie Kyun! Ho Gaya Na. In the film, she played a minor supporting role as friend of film lead actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. After this, Kajal made her debut in Tollywood and played her first leading role in 2007 in the fim Lakshmi Kalyanam alongside Kalyan Ram, which did worked well at the box office. Her next film was Chandamama which recieved positive reviews and became her first major successful film. In 2008, she made her Kollywood debut with movie Pazhani opposite Bharath.
In 2009, she signed a high budget Telugu historical movie Magadheera in the movie she essayed double roles for the first time. Her character of a princess in Magadheera got lot of comments by viewers. The film was also commercially successful and broke several records. Magadheera's enormous success turned Kajal into one of the most sought-after actresses in the Telugu film industry and she also got nominated for  the Filmfare Award for Best Actress.
In 2010, Kajal Agrawal appeared in movie Darling opposite Prabhas and received positive response becoming a commercial success at the box office. She was again nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her performance in Darling. She appeared with Karthi in the Tamil thriller movie Naan Mahaan Alla and movie performed well at the box office and was declared a blockbuster. In the same year, she acted the role of Bhoomi in movie Brindaavanam opposite Jr. NTR and actress Samantha. The film performed well at the box office and Kajal Agarwal won the CineMAA Award for Best Actress for her performance.
In 2011, her movie Mr. Perfect opposite Prabhas was opened to positive reviews, while Kajal won appraisal by critics. Times of India also praised her and wrote that she looks great, expresses well and fits into the role perfectly. In the same year, she made her Bollywood debut as leading actress in movie Singham opposite Ajay Devgan.The film was announced super hit at the box office













beautiful love birds

















Shahrukh khan awards

Awards
  1. 1992 - Winner Best Debut/Newcomer for Deewana
  2. 1993 - Winner Best Actor for Baazigar
  3. 1993 - Nominated Best Actor for Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa
  4. 1993 - Winner Best Performer Critics' Choice for Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa
  5. 1993 - Nominated Best Performance In Negative Role for Darr
  6. 1994 - Winner Best Performance In Negative Role for Anjaam
  7. 1995 - Winner Best Actor for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
  8. 1997 - Winner Best Actor for Dil To Pagal Hai
  9. 1997 - Nominated Best Actor for Yes Boss
  10. 1998 - Winner Best Actor for Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
  11. 1998 - Nominated Best Performance In Negative Role for Duplicate
  12. 1999 - Nominated Best Comedian for Baadshah
  13. 2000 - Winner Best Actor Critics' Choice for Mohabbatein
  14. 2000 - Nominated Best Actor for Mohabbatein
  15. 2001 - Nominated Best Actor for Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
  16. 2002 - Winner Best Actor for Devdas
  17. 2002 - Winner Filmfare Special Award Swiss Consulate Trophy
  18. 2003 - Nominated Best Actor for Kal Ho Naa Ho
  19. 2003 - Winner Filmfare Power Award (along with Amitabh Bachchan)
  20. 2004 - Winner Best Actor for Swades
  21. 2004 - Nominated Best Actor for Main Hoon Na
  22. 2004 - Nominated Best Actor for Veer Zaara
  23. 2004 - Winner Filmfare Power Award
  24. 2006 - Nominated Best Actor for Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna
  25. 2006 - Nominated Best Actor for Don - The Chase Begins Again
    National Honors
        * 1997 - Best Indian Citizen Award
        * 2002 - Rajiv Gandhi Award for Excellence in the Field of Entertainment
        * 2005 - Padman Shri India's fourth highest civilian award from the Government of India
        * 2007 - Adawe Ahmed Farah
    International Honors
    * DIFF Dubai International Film Festival 2006 honoring Shahrukh Khan along with Oliver Stone.

Filmography - Shahrukh Khan

Movie Title Role Year/Notes
Deewana Raja Sahai 1992
Idiot Pawan Raghujan
Chamatkarr Sunder Srivastava
Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman Raju (Raj Mathur)
Dil Aashna Hai Karan
Maya Memsaab Lalit Kumar 1993
King Uncle Anil Bhansal
Baazigar Ajay Sharma/Vicky Malhotra
Darr Rahul Mehra
Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa Sunil
Anjaam Vijay Agnihotri 1994
Karan Arjun Arjun Singh/Vijay 1995
Zamana Deewana Rahul Malhotra
Guiddu Guddu Bahadur
Oh Darling! Yeh Hai India Hero
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge Raj Malhotra
Ram Jaane Ram Jaane
Trimurti Romi Singh/Bholey
English Babu Desi Mem Vikram/Hari/Gopal Mayur 1996
Chaahat Roop Rathore
Army Arjun
Dushman Duniya Ka Badru
Gudgudee (Special appearance)   1997
Koyla Shankar
Yes Boss Rahul Joshi
Pardes Arjun Saagar
Dil To Pagal Hai Rahul
Duplicate Bablu Chaudhry/Manu Dada 1998
Achanak Himself
Dil Se Amarkant Varma
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai Rahul Khanna
Baadshah Raj Heera/Baadshah 1999
Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani Ajay Bakshi 2000
Hey Ram Amjad Ali Khan
Josh Max
Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega Rahul
Mohabbatein Raj Aryan Malhotra
Gaja Gamini Himself
One 2 Ka 4 Arun Verma 2001
Asoka Asoka
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham Rahul Raichand
Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam Gopal 2002
Devdas Devdas Mukherjee
Shakti: The Power Jaisingh
Saathiya Yeshwant Rao
Chalte Chalte Raj Mathur 2003
Kal Ho Naa Ho Aman Mathur
Yeh Lamhe Judaai Ke Dushant 2004
Main Hoon Na Maj. Ram Prasad Sharma
Veer-Zaara Veer Pratap Singh
Swades Mohan Bhargava
Kuch Meetha Ho Jaaye Himself 2005
Kaal  
Silsiilay Sutradhar
Paheli Kishenlal/The Ghost
The Inner and Outer World of Shah Rukh Khan Himself (Biopic)
Alag   2006
Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna Dev Saran
Don - The Chase Begins Again Vijay/Don
I See You  
Chak De India Kabir Khan 2007
Heyy Babyy Raj Malhotra
Om Shanti Om Om Prakash Makhija/Om Kapoor
Krazzy 4   2008
Bhoothnath Aditya Sharma
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (Not released yet) Surinder Sahni
Billo Barber Sahil Khan 2009
Koochie Koochie Hota Hain Rocky
My Name is Khan Rizwan Khan
Dulha Mil Gaya Raj