(39 quotes found)
“Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.”
W. A. Clarke
“In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality”
Clarence Darrow
“There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.”
Christopher Morley
“Underneath an apple-treeSat a maiden and her lover;And the thoughts within her heYearned, in silence, to discover.Round them danced the sunbeams bright,Green the grass-lawn stretched before themWhile the apple blossoms whiteHung in rich profusion o'er them.”
Will Carleton
“Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it”
Charles de Saint-Evremond
“It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just that I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime.”
Cornelia Otis Skinner
“Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.”
Ovid
“Only by doing good can one benefit. Those who detach themselves from 'bad' and yearn for 'good',dedicate their lives to god and to the service of scholars shall be blessed.”
Rig Veda
“In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity”
Robert Browning
“The universal human yearning for something permanent, enduring, without shadow of change.”
Willa Sibert Cather
