Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved


George Crabbe

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Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.
SACHA GUITRY
Don't do it, because you have to do it. Do it, because you love to do it.
PRITISH PATTANAIK
There's nothing stupid about wanting to be loved. Believe me.
NINA LACOUR
Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
JACK CANFIELD
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
ST. AUGUSTINE
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
SAMUEL BUTLER
'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
LORD TENNYSON
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
DAVID CHAMBLESS
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
G. K. CHESTERTON
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer
SACHA GUITRY
Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer
SACHA GUITRY
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.
EDGAR SALTUS
Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED TENNYSON
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
GEORGE SAND
In politics, it is better never to have loved at all than to have loved and lost.
VIKRANT PARSAI
To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
ZSA ZSA GABOR
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Yield nothing to love that is denied to discretion.
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TERRY A O'NEAL
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
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'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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STEVE VERNON
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
SAMUEL BUTLER
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
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I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
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To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
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If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug...
GARY F EVANS...
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
BALTASAR GRACIáN
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
To Love feels good. To be Loved feels better.
LORRIN L. LEE
To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by someone you love...
OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN
Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER
It is better to have a little than nothing.
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DAVE MUSTAINE
To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love...
JOHN N. MITCHELL
To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love...
SAM KEEN
I believe that the most important thing for a couple of any sort, to realize in their relationship w...
C. JOYBELL C.
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
It is better to be loved than feared
AFRICAN PROVERB
It is better to be feared than loved.
LEWIS CARROLL
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER
I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost T...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost T...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'tis better to have loved and lost t...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
LAURENCE J. PETER
To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.
DAVID HUME
There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned not...
LORRAINE HANSBERRY
It is better to be trusted than to be loved.
DAVID O. MACKAY
Some people get what they want, but then they act like they don't want what they're given. I think i...
TREVOR DRIGGERS
Sometimes life gets a little boring so you have to do something crazy to remember your alive!
NEIL OLSSON
It is better to have loved and lost, than to have paid for it and not liked it at all.
GRAHAM DAVIES
While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored.
VIET THANH NGUYEN
It feels good to love. It feels even better to be loved.
LORRIN L. LEE
It is better to have what you can’t love than to love what you can’t have.
VIKRANT PARSAI
To have our needs met, to love, to be loved, to feel safe in this world and to each know our purpose...
BRYANT MCGILL
He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
JOHN LYLY
I hold it true,what'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lo...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved a...
ALFRED TENNYSON
It's better to have loved and lost than to be nagged about buying a damn anniversary gift every year...
JOEY GREEN
There's nothing wrong with George. It is not possible to find fault with George. He's a perfect Scot...
CASSANDRA CLARE
There is a communion with God that asks for nothing, yet asks for everything... He who seeks the Fat...
GEORGE MACDONALD
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
GEORGE ORWELL
Nothing's better than a picnic.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL
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NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI
Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.
OPRAH WINFREY
It's such a magnificent thing to be able to love someone and expect nothing from them.
ESSIE DAVIS
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
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SAM SMITH
You have nothing to prove. Only to yourself. That you're better than your old self.
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KRISTEN CALLIHAN
If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
ANONYMOUS
If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
ANON.
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ISADORA DUNCAN
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ISADORA DUNCAN
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AKIROQ BROST
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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
GEORGE ORWELL
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corpora...
GEORGE ORWELL
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
GEORGE ORWELL
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one...
GEORGE ORWELL
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses t...
GEORGE ORWELL
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay egg...
GEORGE ORWELL
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defen...
GEORGE ORWELL
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments ...
GEORGE ORWELL
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of...
GEORGE ORWELL
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of al...
GEORGE ORWELL
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
GEORGE ORWELL
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
GEORGE ORWELL
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one si...
GEORGE ORWELL
Big Brother is watching you.
GEORGE ORWELL
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELL
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
GEORGE ORWELL
I intend to live life, not just exist.
GEORGE TAKEI
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL
Good writing is like a windowpane.
GEORGE ORWELL
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
GEORGE ORWELL
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
GEORGE ORWELL
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing ...
GEORGE ORWELL
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in ...
GEORGE ORWELL
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than othe...
GEORGE ORWELL