Affection Quotes

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

Nan Fairbrothe

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Henri de Montherlant

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

Archibald Alexande

The affections are like lightning; You cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

Jean Baptiste Lacoraire

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

Alfred A. Montapert

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart.

Henry Ward Beeche

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

Michel de Montaigne