You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
Billie HolidayRead
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
Interpretation
Unexpressed affection is lost and unfulfilled.
This quote emphasizes the importance of expressing love and affection. It suggests that if feelings, such as a kiss, are not shared or experienced, they remain unappreciated and ultimately go to waste, highlighting the significance of meaningful connections in relationships.
In practice
Sharing this quote at a wedding to express the importance of love.
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
I joined Count Basie's band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn't see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.
Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
The love of a Sage for his fellows likewise finds expression amongst mankind. Were he not told sop, he would not know that he loved his fellows. But whether he knows it or whether he does not know it, whether he hears it or whether he does not hear it, his love for his is without end, and mankind cease not to repose therein.
Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.
Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.
Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed obsession like poor Isabel Meredith. This was what love ought to be like: playful and passionate and teasing, and dangerous, too, with sharp intelligence in it.
Iβm here not because I am supposed to be here, or because Iβm trapped here, but because Iβd rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.
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