Notker Balbulus Quotes & Sayings

He had often suspected that the young carriage driver had a particular affection for him. He had even wanted to indulge it on occasion, but was unsure if that would be improper. To make love to someone else's help seemed perfectly acceptable, but to make love to your own help seemed a mite graceless, as though you couldn't find lovers outside your immediate household. — Lev A.C. Rosen

What's it like to fall in love, Tessie?" I asked.
She gazed into the darkness for a long moment, then her smile widened. "Well, when you see that certain man you heart flies like paper on the wind
don't matter if you just see him one minute ago or one year ago. When you with him, ain't nothing or nobody else in the whole world but him. You might be walking down the same old street you walk on every day, but if you with him, your feet don't hardly touch the ground anymore, like you just floating on a little cloud. And, honey, you want his arms to be around you more than you want air to breathe. — Lynn Austin

...it takes more strength to allow yourself to be weak than to pretend that you are strong. — A.J. Reimer

Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness. — Thomas Hardy

When people say they hate life, to what are they comparing it to? The alternative isn't any more appealing. — Carroll Bryant

Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers. — Jorge Luis Borges

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. — Heraclitus

I made a sandwich out of things. I'm an American. We can eat anything as long as it's between two pieces of bread. — Jim Butcher