A ring means a commitment. But more than that, it means that you've talked about your shared future and have decided together on a shared vision of it.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

William Shakespeare

Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing

Madeline de Scudery

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Henry David Thoreau

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

Jean Ingelow

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

Miguel de Cervantes

The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

Rod Stewart

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper

Dorothy L. Sayers

His wit and irony - particularly when he uses them to condemn superstition - are inimitable

Bertrand Russell

I thought: We are not close enough. I thought: He will not hear it. I thought: He will hear it and be out so fast that we will have no chance. I thought: Twenty seconds. I was breathing hard ans fast.

John Green

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

Craig Bruce

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.

Albert Camus