“Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way.”
Pablo Neruda
“I dream of you every night or try my best, but somehow you end up in there either way.”
Michiko Melody
“When you truly love someone, thinking about what's best for yourself and your own happiness is extremely difficult.”
mishxoxo
“In modern usage a cuckold is the husband of an unfaithful wife - a far nastier and more humiliating state, apparently than being the wife of a philanderer, for which in fact no word exists”
Anne Fausto
“Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.”
Lord Byron
“When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.”
David Kirk