Quotes
Quotes about Cause
I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.
A DEEP-SWORN VOW Others because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine. Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face.
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. -Anna Louise Strong.
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. -Anna Strong.
Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less. -Unknown love quote.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater. -Unknown love quote.
The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?
I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his majesty.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the lifeblood of our veins.
But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee.
Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is part of the main ... Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. More mankind quotes coming soon. If you have a quote or proverb about mankind, please use the "Submit a Quote" form below to have your mankind quote reviewed by an editor. Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -John Donne.
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.
