Pastoral Resources

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

It's impossible to compare two bands. It would be like comparing two lovers.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.

Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.