Affection

(822 votes)   The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(702 votes)   The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(656 votes)   The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

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(646 votes)   Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

Sir John Lubbock
1834-1913, British Statesman, Banker, Naturalist

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(623 votes)   Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that…

Princess of Wales Diana
1961-1997, Wife of Charles, Prince of Wales

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(598 votes)   Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. [Colossians 3:2]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(597 votes)   If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper -- and despise it.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(592 votes)   I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven't experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do.

Princess of Wales Diana
1961-1997, Wife of Charles, Prince of Wales

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(590 votes)   It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.

Enid Bagnold
1889-1981, British Novelist, Playwright

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(577 votes)   Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(566 votes)   I never met a man I didn't like.

Will Rogers
1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor

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(539 votes)   A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Andre Maurois
1885-1967, French Writer

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(538 votes)   A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(537 votes)   One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn
1918-, Russian Novelist

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(536 votes)   Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

Leigh Hunt
1784-1859, British Poet, Essayist

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