75 Affection Quotes

Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.

Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton, Of all the nobel prizes that I've never won, And I may be the mayor of simpleton, But I know one thing, And that's I love you.

Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words for. Have they ever stroked any adult with the love they bestow on a cat? Hugged any grownup with the ecstasy they feel when clasping a puppy?

You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.

Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine. I sent thee late a rosy wreath, Not so much honoring thee As giving it a hope that there It could not withered be. But thou thereon didst only breathe, And sent'st it back to me; Since when it grows and smells, I swear, Not of itself, but thee.

There be none of Beauty's daughters With a magic like thee; And like music on the waters Is thy sweet voice to me.

'I love your duck with all its ducky goodness.' [In a Q&A when Jenny told him that, her duck loves him and asked if he loved it back.]

It was the time when lilies blow, And clouds are highest up in air. Lord Ronald brought a lily-white doe To give his cousin, Lady Clare.

She was the love of my life.

You nodded off in my arms watching tv I won't move you an inch Even though my arm's asleep.

Bocca basciata non perde ventura, anzi rinnuova come fa la luna.

Young people of Ireland, I love you!

'I love you more than you could ever know...I could just GAG I love you so much.'

Little light shining, Little light will guide them to me. My face is all lit up, My face is all lit up.

You don't need words - just one kiss, then another.

When I kiss my sons on the mouth, people look at me oddly. They look at closeness as a weakness. But a boy needs physical closeness with his father as well as with his mother.

I love my kitties, they are like my babies - I talk to them on the phone. I am like, 'Hi Mom,' she's like, 'Hi'...I am like, 'Put me on with the cats,'' she laughs. 'I'm like, 'hi baby, how's my little girl?'

My best love to yourself-to your mother my kindest regards-to your small, fat, impertinent, ignorant brother my hatred.

I never heard a single expression of fondness for him fall from the lips of any of those who knew him well.

Too many. Things I do not care for But one thing that I adore. Is a girl like you. ~ 'A Girl Like You'

Uccello cello cello I love myself.

Not from the whole wide world I chose thee, Sweetheart, light of the land and the sea! The wide, wide world could not inclose thee, For thou art the whole wide world to me.

Vous etes mon ami personnel. Vous etes assure de mon estime, de ma consideration et de mon affection.

The good old Dominion, the blessed mother of us all.

She tell me that she needs me, cries when she leaves me/And every time she sees me, she squeeze me, lady take it easy!

(To a stranger on the elevator) Oh I forgot to give you a hug.

One does not live half a life in Asia without return. When it would be I did not know, nor even where it would be, or to what cause. In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. The friendly country of China, the home of my childhood and youth, is for the time being forbidden country. I refuse to call it enemy country. The people in my memory are too kind and the land too beautiful.

Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money - but long on hugs.

'Step in some afternoon,' he said, as affectionately as if I were a fellow-shipmaster wrecked on the lee shore of age like himself.

Was he married, did he try To support as he grew less fond of them Wife and family?

Mary kept the belt of love, and oh, but she was gay! She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.

As I love Mannheim, Mannheim loves me.

'I thought she was the most adorable thing ever put on the face of the planet.' ~ Ray Bolger

'But I love communists!'

'We loved him.'

My Maryland.