Affection Quotes

"Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it"

"A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone."

"Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied"

"A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them"

"No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value."

"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years."

"Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward,But then woos best when most his choice is froward."

"A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration."

"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature."

"Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us."

"Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express."

"We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, wi"

"If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper -- and despise it."

"A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away--the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us--is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow."

"The man had killed the thing he loved, And so he had to die"

"One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself."

"Skins may differ, but affectionDwells in white and black the same."

"A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows."

"If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is."

"With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation out of the other."