The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur SchopenhauerLanguage is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.
Noam ChomskyMan is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.
Mark TwainMost people would rather give than get affection.
AristotleI think that you can love people without it being the great love.
Taylor SwiftThe momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Francis BaconDo you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.
Henny YoungmanWhen women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
H. L. MenckenI definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.
George BestAll you need is love.
John LennonI like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
George EliotAt the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‚feeling‘ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinHuman language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
Noam ChomskyFor what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
George EliotTo an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
George OrwellModeration is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
Benjamin DisraeliIt’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.
Jim CarreyMy wife and I are very affectionate.
Tom BradyMan is by nature a political animal.
AristotleIf I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.
Dwayne JohnsonI wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Khalil GibranWe all have our imperfections. But I’m human, and you know, it’s important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.
Beyonce KnowlesI’m Machiavelli’s offspring, I’m the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.
Kendrick LamarThe greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
John RuskinEverywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Thomas CarlyleThe true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAll my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
George Bernard ShawAffection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. LewisI love Brad in every state.
Angelina JolieThey do not love that do not show their love.
William ShakespeareMost of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.
Carl SaganThe real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.
Marilyn MonroeLove him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
James BaldwinMad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.
Ronald ReaganLove is trembling happiness.
Khalil GibranSpeak low, if you speak love.
William ShakespeareWe long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
George EliotI have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
Marilyn MonroeWhen people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it’s because he’s so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
Walt DisneyThe human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
Jeff BezosHuman subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da VinciYou are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.
Ronald ReaganSpeech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas CarlyleMay I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
Franz KafkaAlways kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
H. L. MenckenHuman self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.
Pope FrancisLove is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiEven an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops… If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
Dalai LamaWe object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration – not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.
Charles SpurgeonEvery aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.
Margaret AtwoodThe natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel JohnsonNo human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
John RuskinThere is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David ThoreauI’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.
Kurt CobainA cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.
Charles BukowskiBeing a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
Abraham MaslowIf I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.
Groucho MarxTo deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
Jimmy CarterI was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
Audrey Hepburn