“When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ”
~ by Elizabeth Bowen

“Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.”
~William Shakespeare is trying to say never to try to change your lover.

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
~ Robert Frost

“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.”
~Robert Browning

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.”
~Voltaire

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”
~Christopher Marlowe

“In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.”
~Margaret Anderson

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
~Aristotle

“If you would be loved, love and be lovable.”
~Benjamin Franklin

“The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart.
~Josiah G. Holland

“My heart is ever at your service.”
~William Shakespeare

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Here are some Funny Love Quotes and some Alfred Tennyson’s Love quotes

“Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave. ‘
~William Shakespeare

“Don’t be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”
~Richard Bach

“Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than remember me and cry.”
~Unknown

“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
~ Dr. Seuss

” Saying good-bye isn’t the hard part, it’s what we have to leave behind that’s hard.”
Unknown

Here is a goodbye poem.

Where’er I roam, whatever realms to see,
My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee;
Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain,
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
~Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller

Another Goodbye Poem

She went her unremembering way,
She went and left in me
The pang of all the partings gone,
And partings yet to be.
~Francis Thompson

“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.”
~Ivy Baker Priest

‘True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.”
~Unknown

“In the hope to meet shortly again, and make our absence sweet.”
~Ben Jonson

“To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment.”
~George Lansdowne

“But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.”
~Edward Young

“The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.”
~Alan Alda

“Where is the good in goodbye?”
~Meredith Willson,

“Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart. ”
~Kay Knudsen

“Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been -
A sound which makes us linger; - yet - farewell!”
~Lord Byron

Please add your own goodbye quotes and sayings below

Starting the sarcastic list with,

“Nothing is more discouraging than unappreciated sarcasm.”

“I would have liked to insult you, but the sad truth is that you wouldn’t understand me.”

“I can tell that you are lying, your lips are moving.”

“I feel so miserable without you, it’s almost like having you here.”
~ Stephen Bishop

“People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.”
~Russel Baker

“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”
~Abba Eban

“I like you. People say I’ve got no taste, but I like you.”

“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victems he intends to eat until he eats them.”
~Samuel Butler

“Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.”
~ Oscar Levant

“A sharp tongue does not mean you have a keen mind.”

“The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.”
~ Frank Zappa, But that should be India, compared to which United States’s Law’s are like Stalin’s?

“He was happily married - but his wife wasn’t.”
~ Victor Borge

“If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?”
~ Charles Pierce

“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”
~ Clarence Darrow

“If you can’t live without me, why aren’t you dead already?”
~Cynthia Heimel

“She’s the first in her family born without tail.”

“Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn’t.”
~ Rufus Wainwright

“There is no sin worse in life than being boring - and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do.”
~Paris Hilton

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“The Jews have produced only three originative geniuses: Christ, Spinoza and myself.”
Gertrude Stein

“Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom.”
~ Bion of Smyrna

“This is an impressive crowd: the Have’s and Have-more’s. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.”
~ George W. Bush

“All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
~Theodore Bikel

“When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have then given views to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities.”
~ David Hume

“Never look down on anyone unless you’re helping him up.”
~Jesse Jackson

“I’m so good even I don’t believe it.”
~William Shatner

“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.”
~Stephen Jay Gould

“Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.”
~Marya Mannes

“I never apologize. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way I am.”
~Homer J. Simpson

“Caution: Cape does not enable user to fly.”
~Batman costume warning label

“I have opinions of my own — strong opinions –but I don’t always agree with them.”
~George Bush,

“If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.”
~Dan Quayle

“It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago”
~ Dan Quayle

“We are not ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur.”
~Dan Quayle

“Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.”
~Yogi Berra, But then Yogi Berra Was a different Character altogether.

“I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada.”
~ Britney Spears,

“I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes.”
~Richard (Dicky) Nixon

“Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.”
~ Brooke Shields

“We’ve got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?”
~Lee Iacocca

“Life is very important to Americans.”
~Bob Dole, U.S. Senator from Kansas

“Most of my cliches aren’t original.”
~Chuck Knox,

“The internet is a great way to get on the net.”
~ Bob Dole,

“A verbal contract is not worth the paper it’s written on.”
-Samuel Goldwyn

“We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.”
~Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign minister

“Don’t pay any attention to the critics–don’t even ignore them”
~Samuel Goldwyn

“Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything.”
~ Ivana Trump

“Thank God, I’m still alive.” But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
~ Sen. Barbara Boxer, after the San Fransisco Earthquake

“I can’t really remember the names of the clubs that we went to.”
- Shaquille O’Neal, when asked if he visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece.

” The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.”
~Dwight Eisenhower

“Take it easy — but take it.”
~Woody Guthrie

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.”
~ Erica Jong

A funny advice by Woody Allen “Just don’t take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.”

“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.”
~Agatha Christie

“To accept good advice is but to increase one’s own ability”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A word to the wise ain’t necessary, it’s the stupid ones who need the advice.”
~Bill Cosby

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)”
~Lewis Carroll

“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.”
~Erma Bombeck

“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”
~Gloria Steinem

“If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.”
~Lillian Hellman

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

“Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.”
~ Publilius Syrus

“Never complain and never explain.”
~ Benjamin Disraeli

“The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.”
~Oscar Wilde

“Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.”
~ Dave Barry

We are Humans and we offer sympathy. We always do, sometimes we express it, sometimes, we don’t but offer we do. We are always moved by someone else’ plight, and we offer sympathy to each other the plight is upon us together. But more often than, we are at a loss when we want to express our sympathy, and we end up saying something stupid like, “I understand”. Truth is you don’t. So we say, I am sorry.

What we have here is a collection of sympathy sayings and quotes that will come in handy, memorize them if you must. And you may also use them in Sympathy Cards, or ecards that you send.

“And you should always know, wherever you may go,
No matter where you are, I will never be far away.”
~ Billy Joel

“There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.”
~ Margaret Fuller

“To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die.” ~Thomas Campbell

“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.” ~Robert Ingersoll

“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”
~William Penn

“A human life is a story told by God.”
~Hans Christian Andersen

“Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about , With silence ‘mid the world’s loud din.”
~ James Russell Lowell

“He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“We pine for kindred natures to mingle with our own.”
~ Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans,

“Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow. ” Robert Louis Stevenson

This are about sympathy..

“Sympathetic people are often uncommunicative about themselves; they give back reflected images which hide their own depths.”
~ George Eliot

“The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.”
~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin

“Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.”
~ Ernest Wilfrid LeGouve

“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.”
~ Voltaire

“A good garden may have some weeds.”
~Thomas Fuller

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
~George Orwell

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
~Anna Quindlen

“People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it”
~Edith Schaeffer

“Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.”
~William Safire

“The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.”
~ Eugene Delacroix

“Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn’t perfection but progress.”
~Michelle Burford,

“The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.”
~Doug Larson

“Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.”
~Lord Chesterfield

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
~Antoine de Saint Exupery

“The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.”
~Matthew Arnold

“Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day.”
~ Gene Perret

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
~ Mignon McLaughlin

“Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life”
~ Aphra Behn

“A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.”
~Paul Sweeney

“It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
~Rita Rudner

“Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.”
~Michael Leunig

“Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.”
~Zelda Fitzgerald

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ~Marcel Proust

“Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.”
~ Author Anonymous

“Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. ”
~ N. D. Stice

“A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.”
~ Ralph W. Sockman

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
~ Herman Hesse

“Marriage is a partnership in which each inspire the other, and brings fruition to both of you.”`
~ Millicent Carey McIntosh

“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.”
~Henny Youngman

“To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;
Whenever you’re right, shut up.”
~Ogden Nash

“A retired husband is often a wife’s full-time job.”
~Ella Harris

“Retire from work, but not from life.”
~M.K. Soni

“I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.”
~Gene Perret

“I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.”
~Danny McGoorty

“In retirement, every day is Boss Day and every day is Employee Appreciation Day.”
~Anonymous

“Retired is being twice tired, I’ve thought: First tired of working, Then tired of not.”
~Richard Armour

Funny Retirement quote,

“Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.”
~George F. Burns

“Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it”
~Charles de Saint-Evremond

“When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.”
~ Chi Chi Rodriguez

“Retirement is wonderful. It’s doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.”
~Gene Perret

“Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.”
~Seneca

And here is a sweet Retirement Poem

An elegant sufficiency, content,
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,
Ease and alternate labour, useful life,
Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!
— James Thomson, 1700-1748, Spring