Alfred de MussetThinkers

Dating is like a shadow; follow her she flies away; fly from her, she follows.

Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.

A Kiss is the only real language in the world.

Life is a sleep, love is a dream ; and you have lived if you have loved.

Love is to give body and soul.

Memory is what makes us young or old.

Prayer is a cry of hope.

Quarreling is not all bad — the pleasure of disputes is in making peace.

Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.

Tax is a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value.