• Apuleius [The Golden Ass]

"...for the flame of fierce love when it burns low gives pleasure with its initial warmth, but once fed by familiarity it becomes a fierce fire, scorching our whole bodies with uncontrollable heat."

"When love strenghtens day by day, what at first is regarded as difficult to achieve seems easy to accomplish."

"'My dear Photis,' I said, 'how lusciously and attractively you wiggle that wee pot, and your bottom with it! There's a succulent dish you have in readiness there! How lucky a fellow would be if you let him stick his finger in--he'd be on top of the world!'

That pert and witty girl at once replied: 'Keep clear, poor boy, keep clear as far as possible from this stove of mine. If once my little flame shoots out and as much as sears you, you will be all ablze inside, and I'll be the only one who can put your fire out. The spices which I incorporate are sweet. I'm an expert at pleasaurably shaking a bed as well as a pot."

"She was a foe to fidelity, and made war on chastity."

"She vaunted her unblemished beauty by appearing naked and unclothed except for a thin silken garment veiling her entrancing lower parts. An inquisitive gust of air would at one moment with quite lubricious affection blow this garment aside, so that when wafted away it revealed her virgin bloom; at another moment it would wantonly breathe directly upon it, clinging tightly and vivdly outlining the pleasurable prospect of her lower limbs."

"...Venus still more affectingly began gently to stir herself; with gradual, lingering steps, restrained swaying of the hips, and slow inclination of the head she began to advance, her refined movements matching the soft sounds of the flutes. Occasionally her eyes alone would dance, as at one moment she gently lowered her lids, and at another imperiously signalled with threatening glances."

"...Why are you amazed that all jurymen nowadays trade their verdicts for money, seeing that when the world began, this suit conducted between deities and men was corrupted by grace and favour?"

• Aristotle

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

• Boufflers

"Jealousy is Amor's sister... just like Lucifer is a brother of the Angels."

• Cecelia Ahern [If You Can See Me Now]

"The things we do to go back in time. The things we don't do the first time around."

• Donald Trump

"Never argue with an idiot. They will only pull you down to their level and beat you with experience."

• Douglas Coupland

[J-Pod] "Only damaged people want good things to happen to them through visualization. They want something for nothing."

"If there was a button you can push that will kill that one person you hated the most, and no one else will ever know about it, will you push it?"

[Hey Nostradamus] "A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection --- it feels good when you get one, but you foret it the moment you're past it."

"The point here is that there are certain human behavioural traits that can be talked about, but unless you've experienced the impulse behind them, they remain theoretical. Most of the time, this is for the best. After my brush with the suicide impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door opened, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment."

"Who are we to slap the human sin of vanity onto some poor flower that did nothing more than be given a name?"

• Elizabeth Bowen

"When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out."

• Emile Deschamps

"When two people cry together for the first time, they understand how much they love each other."

• Pixar [Finding Nemo - Crush the Sea Turtle]

"Well, you don't really know. But when they know, you'll know, you know?"

• Finola Hughes [Soapsuds]

"It's a fucking shame that stupidity isn't painful."

• Gloria Steinem

"The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off."

• Hemingway

"Wherever there is one of us the other is present."

• _Hollie__

"Any problem you can't solve with a good guitar, is either, unsolvable or not a problem."

• Inio Asano [Solanin]

"Freedom without any purpose feels a lot like boredom."

• Isak Dinesien [The Blue Jar]

"Is it not a sweet thing to think that, if only you have patience, all that has ever been, will come back to you?"

• Jae Park

When asked what he does at work (a grocery store): "I organize vegetables so that Asians can buy it under the deception of that it's fresh."

• Jason Mraz [The Forecast]

"Your mouth is my umbrella now, and I'm holding you tongue."

• La Rochefoucauld

"Sometimes it's better to be wrong about your motives than to listen to the truth."

• Lysandar [A Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1.129]

"How chance the roses there do fade so fast?"

• _Martin Page [How I Became Stupid]

"For him, being for or against was an unbearable limitation on a coomplex question."

"That's life: not everybody can run the one hundred meters."

"In short, even if he did have moderate faith in himself, he tried not to believe himself too readily, not to aquuiesce too easily to what he was thinking, because he knew his own mind was not above decieving him to comfort himself."

"There are no innocents in love, only victims."

• Maiden of the Moon

"Lips are lips. It's whose's attached to them that matters."

• Mike Tomlin

"The first five minutes of action don't decide the outcome of the game. Never."

• Montaigne

"If somebody asks why I loved the way I did, I'll answer that both of us were authentic. That is my only answer."

• Ms. Grotkey [Disney's Recess]

"Lying is such a harsh word. I'd like to refer it as... massaging reality."

• Noda Megumi [Nodame Cantabile]

"Gyabo!" "I'm going to enjoy playing, so please try your best to listen."

• Osamu Dazai

"Without the slightest doubt there is love in this world. What worries me is how to express it."

• Paul Klee

"Art does not reproduce the visible, it makes visible."

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"We meet, come to know each other, fall in love and part right after. This is how many sad stories evolve."

• Robert Heinlein

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

• Scuderi

"The moment one begins to love another, is when life really starts."

• Shakespeare

"As long as people have friends to share their sadness... it becomes easier to bear."

• Shigure Sohma [Fruits Basket]

"We have just witnessed a classic example of what I like to call 'misdirected rage'. I believe the technical term is 'being an ass'.

• Stendhal

"In love there is only one law: to make your love happy."

"The greatest love can give you, is to take your lover's hand for the first time."

• Unknown

"Life does not amount in breathings, but to the moments which cut you the breath."

"When pursued, one wants to escape. When fled from, one wants to pursue. Nature of human emotions."

"It's never too late to find true love, for time ages love perfectly."

"If you want my opinion, it's too easy, quoting other people, because there are so many great writers who've said so many great things that no one would ever need to express their own opinions ever again."

"Learn to write your hurts in sand and to carve your benefits in stone."

"Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."