Heart Quotes: Expressions of Love & Emotion (Page 2)

"There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate"

Robert Frost, Poet

"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth"

Martin Luther, Professor

"Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse"

George Washington, President

"Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography"

Robert Byrne, Celebrity

"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart"

Washington Irving, Writer

"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

"Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"Stick with your heart and you'll be fine"

Paul Westerberg, Musician

"Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

"And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns"

Thomas Moore, Poet

"Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here"

George C. Wallace, Politician

"He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart"

William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician

"Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart"

Phil Jackson, Coach

"A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching"

A. Bartlett Giamatti, Educator

"The greens are harder than a whore's heart"

Sam Snead, Athlete

"O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire"

Lewis J. Bates

"The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death.""

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Faint heart never won fair lady"

William Edward Hickson, Writer

"The heart is forever inexperienced"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel"

Peter Nivio Zarlenga, Businessman

"The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder"

H.G. Wells, Author

"Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living"

Helen Keller, Author

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