We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
citylifecities love tod
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
ignorance&stupidity innocence
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
success tso-love youth
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
youth
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
age courage
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes it's partner in crime.
crime
Immature love says, 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says, 'I need you because I love you.'
unrequitedlove
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
friendship
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
pride
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
honor society
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
funny humor trouble
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
marriage
If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.