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To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its missi
Charles A. Lindbergh on love

Abroad in the world today is a monstrous falsehood, a consummate fabrication, to which all social agencies have loaned themselves and into which most men, women, and children have been seduced..."the Eleventh Commandment"; for such, indeed, has become the injunction: You Must Adjust.
Robert M. Lindner on change

The four stages of man are: Infancy, Childhood, Adolescence and obsolescence.
Art Linkletter on age

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.
John Barrymore on marriage

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
John Barrymore on sex

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
Walter Lippmann on opposition

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
M.W. Little on success

In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.
Titus Livius on adversity

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Titus Livius on avarice

Such impetuous schemes and boldness are at first sight alluring, but are difficult to handle, and in the result disastrous.
Titus Livius on boldness

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Titus Livius on fear

The discipline of desire is the background of character.
John Locke on character

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing
John Locke on dreams

All wealth is the product of labor.
John Locke on wealth

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
Vince Lombardi on success

By the data to date, there i sonly one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.
Lazarus Long on age

Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.
Lazarus Long on beauty

Don't tax me, don't tax thee, tax the man behind the tree!
Sen. Russell Long on taxes

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on adversity

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on affection