WIST Quotations

Shain, Merle -- Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)

Dave — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 17:22:19 +0000

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Merle Shain (1935–1989) Canadian journalist and author
Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)

In When Lovers Are Friends (1978), Shain wrote it as "Caring can cost a lot, but not caring always costs more."

Crabbe, George -- Tales in Verse, Tale 14 “The Struggles of Conscience” (1812)

Dave — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:53:09 +0000

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

George Crabbe (1754–1832) English poet, writer, surgeon, clergyman
Tales in Verse, Tale 14 “The Struggles of Conscience” (1812)

See Tennyson (1849).

Ingersoll, Robert Green -- Speech (1882-01-08), “At a Child’s Grave,” Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D. C.

Dave — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:34:00 +0000

I had rather live and love where death is king, than have eternal life where love is not. Another life is nought, unless we know and love again the ones who love us here.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Speech (1882-01-08), “At a Child’s Grave,” Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D. C.

Eulogy at the burial of Harry Miller.