(1226 quotes found)
“Do 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.”
Henry Youngman
“The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.”
Thomas Jefferson
“In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.”
Jane Austen
“The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that's just ridiculous. It's as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street it's for a reason. Among primitive people they say if someone was bitten by a snake he was murdered. I believe that.”
William S. Burroughs
“He was the kind of man who was not ashamed to show affection. I guess that's what I hated about him.”
Jack Handy
“Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The fact is that people are good, if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their wish for affection and security. Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.”
Abraham Maslow
“If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge love and affection and belongingness needs, and the whole cycle already described will repeat itself with this new centre. Now the person will feel keenl”
“The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog”
Ambrose Bierce
“When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.”
Charles R. Swindoll
