“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
Mignon McLaughlin · The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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Life Quotes
LifeLife Lessons
459 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.
“Wherever you are, be all there.”
Jim Elliot
“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.”
Frank Crane
“Trust is built with consistency.”
Lincoln Chafee
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Be in this world as if you were a stranger or a traveler.”
Prophet Muhammad · hadith, Sahih al-Bukhari tradition
“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.”
Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib · attributed
“The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family.”
Reed Markham
“Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.”
Bill Cosby · Fatherhood, 1986
“When I was young, my father told me that my mother would teach me how to love, and he would teach me how to live.”
Common attribution, traditional
“My father didn't tell me how to live. He lived, and let me watch him do it. I think that is the best lesson a father can give.”
Will Rogers
“Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.”
Anne Geddes
“A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.”
Frank A. Clark
“He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
Clarence Budington Kelland
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
Sigmund Freud
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
George Herbert · Jacula Prudentum, 1651
“Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad.”
Anne Geddes
