Fond Quotes

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill

Down, Treat, Cats

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honore de Balzac

Happiness, Future, Mother

The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.
Frank Sinatra

Women, Men, Truth

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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
E. M. Forster

Life, Trust, Mess

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
Voltaire

Truth, Martyrdom

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Love, True, Care

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee

War, Grow, Terrible

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Giving, Give, Call

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Happiness, Enough, Count

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
Jane Austen

Love, Step, Dancing

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.
Marguerite Duras

Love, Men, Simply

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
Charles Caleb Colton

Mean, Keep, Secrets

I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone's personality. It's a very lovely concept.
Drew Barrymore

Spiritual, Someone, Lovely

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Alfred North Whitehead

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
Jonathan Swift

Same, Another, Ailments

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
Wangari Maathai

Powerful, Poor, Often

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
Ogden Nash

I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.
Sarah Bernhardt

Why, Matter, Fact

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.
Lord Acton

Smile, Soul, Another

I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.
Leslie Fiedler

Used, Wrestling, Indian

I've always been fond of the glam-rocker title.
Adam Lambert

I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.
Clara Schumann

Bad, Cannot, Everybody

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
Alfred North Whitehead

Joke, Religious, Truly

It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.
Antonio Banderas

Character, Found, Worked

I'm very impressed that there are so many fans - not just in Japan, but here in America - that are fond of the work that I've done. I'm actually kind of embarrassed by it all.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Work, Done, America

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them.
George Saunders

Someone, Real, Else

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
John Berger

Two, Understand, Away

I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I'm fond of using them as year-round home decor. There's a reason why they're sometimes called fairy lights. When the night is right, there aren't any strings at all.
Erin Morgenstern

Home, Night, Why

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