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 The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Yield nothing to love that is denied to discretion.
MINNA ANTRIM Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is t...
ISADORA DUNCAN You deserve someone who you don't mind sharing your world with—someone you can trust in it.
...
TERRY A O'NEAL There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
SAMUEL BUTLER It is midnight in the hard part of town. The mask is itching like it always does. The ragged end of ...
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
SAMUEL BUTLER To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
IRVIN D. YALOM I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
AMY TAN It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at ...
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
VINCENT VAN GOGH To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
JEFFREY FRY 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.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) I think I'd make a better president than George Bush. I'll tell you what, George Bush and Dick Chene...
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 And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather...
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 My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'...
SAM SMITH You have nothing to prove. Only to yourself. That you're better than your old self.
M.L. SHANAHAN It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wr...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Finding peace and contentment with Evernight—two emotions he was certain he’d never found in bed...
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. Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is t...
ISADORA DUNCAN Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is t...
ISADORA DUNCAN If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have ...
BILLIE BURKE Believe. Have faith. Don't stand in your own way. If you don't believe in yourself, a positive outco...
AKIROQ BROST Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt g...
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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