Plutarch Quotes

Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time.

If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends

You kiss by th' book.

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.

On a more technical level, a story takes a lot of words. And to generate words and phrases and images and so on, that will compel the reader to continue reading - that stand a chance of really grabbing a reader - the writer has to work out of a place of, let's say, familiarity and affection. The matrix of the story has to be made out of stuff the writer really knows about and likes. The writer can't be stretching and (purely) inventing all the time. Well, I can't, anyway.

A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.

It is important to have friends and family around that I love and trust and who love and trust me.

When love is involved no sacrifice is too great.

If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long.

Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound of their voices, and they have profound secrets in them that you wish to know. In other words, choose them because you love them. Otherwise you will not be able to bear their company for very long.

When you look around at the six people that you spend the most time with, that's who you are. I think that in making those decisions in who you are going to be married to, who your friends are going to be, those are really huge, critical, life decisions. Who gets to talk to you everyday, is almost like the food that you eat. It is a very huge critical situation to choose who the people are that you are spending your life with, spending your time with and who you are choosing to give your love and everything to.

It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours.

I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will have to do with feelings of loving and being loved - friends, family, teachers, shopkeepers - whoever's been close to you. As you continue to grow, you'll find many ways of expressing your love and you'll discover more and more ways in which others express their love for you.

Love in marriage is more than just a feeling or an emotion; it is a choice.

The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the 'love account.'

I judge how much a man cares for a woman by the space he allots her under a jointly shared umbrella.

One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.

Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.

Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.

You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.

One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.