Some people are worth melting for.
Olaf · The snowman voiced by Josh Gad in Frozen (2013) · The snowman lighting a fire to save a freezing Anna, even though it is melting him.
Short love quotes of fewer than twenty words, for a card, a caption or a text.
Olaf · The snowman voiced by Josh Gad in Frozen (2013) · The snowman lighting a fire to save a freezing Anna, even though it is melting him.
Michelle Obama · The source reads: “Happy 25th anniversary @barackobama. A quarter of a century later, you're still my best friend & the most extraordinary man I know. I love you.” · Michelle Obama's Instagram post to Barack on their twenty fifth wedding anniversary.
H. Jackson Brown Jr. · One of the instructions the author wrote down for his son.
Albert Einstein · To his editor and friend Saxe Commins, summer 1953.
Nathaniel Hawthorne · Hawthorne to his fiancée Sophia Peabody from Salem, May 26, 1839, during their long engagement.
Attributed to Winston Churchill · The reply to Lady Astor's "If I were your wife, I'd put poison in your coffee"; the exchange was told before Churchill's day and pinned on him later.
The source reads: “Cras amet qui nunquam amavit quique amavit cras amet.” · The refrain of the Pervigilium Veneris, a Latin poem of the fourth century on the eve of the feast of Venus, in Thomas Parnell's 1722 translation; its author is unknown.
The Bible · 1 John 4:8. The verse that gives the New Testament its three-word definition of God.
Mahatma Gandhi · The source reads: “Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.” · From an article in his weekly Young India, 5 May 1920.
Saint Augustine · His cry to God, the most quoted sentence in the Confessions.
Roger de Bussy-Rabutin · The source reads: “L'absence est à l'amour ce qu'est au feu le vent; il éteint le petit, il allume le grand.” · A maxim from the Maximes d'amour in Bussy-Rabutin's Histoire amoureuse des Gaules, 1660, in the familiar English rendering.
Ronald Reagan · The source reads: “The important thing is I don't want to be without you for the next 20 years, or 40, or however many there are.” · Reagan's twentieth anniversary letter to Nancy, joking that they had been married twenty minutes, not twenty years.
Viktor Frankl · From the section "The Meaning of Love" in the second part of the book, written by a psychiatrist who survived Auschwitz.
Marilynne Robinson · The old minister John Ames, writing to his small son.
Mary Carolyn Davies · The opening of her poem "Love," printed in 1918 and reprinted in 1936 under the name "Roy Croft," a credit that stuck though no such poet existed.
Jimmy Carter · Carter, then ninety, at the 2015 Carter Center press conference where he discussed his cancer, after sixty nine years of marriage.
Lord Byron · The closing lines of "When We Two Parted," about a parting whose wound has not healed, written about an affair he kept secret all his life.
Popular on engagement and anniversary cards.
Also seen as "as radiant as your smile".
Winston Churchill · To Clementine on their wedding anniversary.
Thomas Fuller · Proverb 755 of his collection; the line is often handed to Benjamin Franklin, who did not write it.
Often credited to Gautama Buddha · Found in no Buddhist scripture; the nearest canonical line, in the Udana, says a person searching the world finds no one dearer than himself, and this self-love version first appears in print in 2001, with a near-identical earlier form credited to the meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg.
Often credited to Groucho Marx · Credited to Groucho and to Mae West only decades later; the Boston Post of 28 Nov 1916 has the comedian Raymond Hitchcock saying "Marriage is a great institution; but who wants to live in an institution?" in the musical Betty.
That is every quote on the shelf, all 659 of them.
659 quotes, dealt in a fresh order every day, so the page reads differently each morning, and every quote keeps its own page.
Every quote on GKBook is traced to the book, speech, letter or interview it came from before it is published. A famous line that cannot be traced is kept because people search for it, but it is labelled "Attributed to", and a line that belongs to someone else is labelled "Often credited to" with the real origin beside it.
The first pill opens the author's page with every quote of theirs on GKBook; the others open the categories the quote belongs to, such as Love Quotes or Wisdom Quotes.
Tap the quote to open its own page, which carries a share button and, where a quote card has been made, a Download button for the full-size picture.
Every general-knowledge topic and the A-to-Z lists.
The world A to Z: flags, countries, the sciences, places, people, subjects.
We Value Your Opinion Comments