1.
Unknown -
“There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.”
2.
Unknown -
“There are three men that all ought to look upon with affection: he that with affection looks at the face of the earth, that is delighted with rational works of art, and that looks lovingly on little children.”
3.
Logan Pearsall Smith -
“A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.”
4.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
“Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.”
5.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
“There is no power greater than true affection.”
6.
Sir Walter Scott -
“Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.”
7.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
“Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.”
8.
François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld -
“We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.”
9.
Neil Gaiman -
“I do not permit affection, or lack thereof, to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected; the evil eradicated. I have shown you the triumph of evil, as a caution.”
10.
Luise von François -
“We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.”
11.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
“The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed; there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, — all duties even.”
12.
Charles Dickens -
“With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.”
13.
Professor Stephen L. Clark -
“Affection towards clan-mates, love of children, deference to authority, disinclination to kill those who have reminded us of common humanity, even some respect for property; these features of human life do not, it seems, stem from our intellectual gifts. We share them with our cousins.”
14.
Lord George Gordon Byron -
“Alas! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert.”
15.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce -
“UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.”
16.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce -
“PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.”
17.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce -
“FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.”
18.
Aristotle -
“Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.”
19.
Sir John Lubbock -
“Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped By sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.”
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