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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. -- Leo Rosten
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate. -- George Eliot
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. -- W. Somerset Maugham
It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often. -- Larry David
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft. -- Ovid
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. -- Herbert Hoover
My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God. -- Bob Balaban
And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions. -- Margaret Cavendish
The musicians are really on board, they're doing a great job together. There is some kind of a good chemistry, I would say affectionate chemistry and it's a huge promise of success. -- Lucien Bouchard
Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones. -- Northrop Frye
We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates. -- Victoria Beckham
Good men must be affectionate men. -- Samuel Richardson
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog. -- Ambrose Bierce
Jarrell was not so much a father . . . as an affectionate encyclopedia. -- Mary Von Schrader Jarrell
The farewell between Hitler and Mussolini at the station was very affectionate. Both men were moved. -- Galeazzo Ciano
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained. -- C. S. Lewis
Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection -- Jack Butler Yeats
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. -- John Lubbock
Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But what right, I ask, has the law to presume at all on the subject? -- Ernestine Rose
I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods. -- Gertrude Stein
Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. -- George Washington
My wife and I are very affectionate. -- Tom Brady
I can be affectionate about a lot of things without watching them. -- Tom Stoppard
The severe household has no fierce slaves, but it is the affectionate mother. -- Han Fei
Turkeys know their names, come when you call, and are totally affectionate. They're better than teenagers. -- Elayne Boosler
Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood. -- Ginger Rogers
My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered the English language. -- Jean Hanff Korelitz
I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl. -- Kurt Cobain
My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anything valuable which I may have acquired in my youth. He was my only intelligent companion, and was both a watchful parent and an affectionate friend. -- John Marshall
There are certain characteristics that define a good chimp mother. She is patient, she is protective but she is not over-protective - that is really important. She is tolerant, but she can impose discipline. She is affectionate. She plays. And the most important of all: she is supportive. -- Jane Goodall
I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of stories where his trademark anarchy is combined with a tautness of writing that shines an affectionate yet uncompromising spotlight on some of the absurdities of human behaviour. -- Giles Andreae
In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One flaw: sometimes, early on, she would tell me things designed to make me think less of my mother, and I would wave her away, saying, 'Jane, this just backfires and makes me think less of you.' -- Martin Amis
My daughter is very strong-willed and is a great kid. She doesn't drink. She doesn't smoke. She doesn't fold to peer pressure. I think how affectionate my wife and I have been with her over the years all plays into that. She realizes the more people she is exposed to that kids who have both parents around grow up to be much better people. -- Doug Flutie
I'm an affectionate person. -- Zara Phillips
Keep encouraging one another with affectionate love. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
He who licks his wounds cannot be affectionate -- Theodor Reik
My feelings towards the newspapers are very affectionate. -- Annalena McAfee
I got bored of not feeling affectionate towards girls. -- Rod Stewart
He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody. -- Jane Austen
Never kiss in public, but at home I am affectionate. -- Donald Glover
You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much. -- Will Cuppy
The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness. -- Dean Koontz
A genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives. -- Dalai Lama
Thank God I got the rejects. These animals are very, very affectionate. -- Eartha Kitt
They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal. -- Tom Hayden
I do have complicated feelings about Hollywood, but I also have tremendously affectionate ones. -- Matthew Specktor
Be a good human being, a warmhearted, affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. -- Dalai Lama
I'm an affectionate person I'm a person who hugs, hugs people and I shake hands. -- Michele Bachmann
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation... -- Edmund Burke
There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat. -- Monica Edwards
Comic-Con fans are so affectionate, and it's always a lovely way to start a new season. -- Kunal Nayyar
I love the homely atmosphere of Indore and Bhopal. People here are very warm and affectionate. -- Malaika Arora Khan
I love firm hugs. Statues are so affectionate. Well, at least compared to my ex wife. -- Jarod Kintz
Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere. -- Jane Austen
One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members. -- Henry Van Dyke
I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love. -- Edward Dahlberg
I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman. -- Hillary Clinton
A good mother is protective but not over-protective. She's patient, she's affectionate, she's playful, but above all she is supportive. -- Jane Goodall
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him -- Herbert Hoover
The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing. -- Lorrie Moore
An affectionate disposition not only makes the mind more peaceful and calm, but it affects our body in a positive way too. -- Dalai Lama
Sex ought to be a wholly satisfying link between two affectionate people from which they emerge unanxious, rewarded, and ready for more. -- Alex Comfort
Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty. -- Marcus Aurelius
How would I treat a girl if she was my girlfriend? I`m a really affectionate person and I like being a gentleman. -- Omarion
Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts. -- A. N. Wilson
My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed. -- Michael De Luca
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face. -- Randall Jarrell
Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least. -- John Ruskin
It is a curious truth that many cats enjoy warmer, more convivial, even affectionate relationships with humans than they could ever do with fellow felines. -- Bruce Fogle
I am open to keep on discovering new interesting projects, and little by little I have been coming across very beautiful projects with very affectionate directors. -- Alfonso Herrera
The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart. -- J. B. Priestley
The Italians are not passionate: passion has deep reserves. They are easily moved, and often affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding passion of any sort. -- D. H. Lawrence
There is nothing so strong as the force of love; there is no love so forcible as the love of an affectionate mother to her natural child. -- Elizabeth Grimston
Women are so gentle, so affectionate, so true in sorrow, so untired and untiring! but the leaf withers not sooner, and tropic light fades not more abruptly. -- Bryan Procter
Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of the mind. -- Robertson Davies
Through watering the ground of affectionate love with cherishing love, And then sowing the seeds of wishing love and compassion, the medicinal tree of Bodhichitta will grow. -- Je Tsongkhapa
It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Reptiles and amphibians are sometimes thought of as primitive, dull and dimwitted. In fact, of course, they can be lethally fast, spectacularly beautiful, surprisingly affectionate and very sophisticated. -- David Attenborough
"Walter," she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, "like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for them, and believe that they will arrive." -- Charles Dickens
England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand. -- Walt Whitman
My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me. -- Ian Mcewan
What is wonderful to see is how incredibly affectionate and physically affectionate Nancy Reagan was, you know? She was so on her guard, she was threatened by just about everybody. -- Cynthia Nixon
one's enjoyment is doubled when one can share it with a friend - and where can one find a more affectionate, a more intimate friend than in one's own family? -- Marie Antoinette
We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do. -- Artemas Ward
Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised. -- John Bunyan
I will never say a bad word about 'One Tree Hill'. The entire shape of my world changed because of that show, so I'll always be very affectionate toward it. -- Hilarie Burton
The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way. -- Mark Twain
What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind. -- Abigail Adams
My personal view is very simple: What happens in your bedroom, it's up to you. If you want to use gay marriage as an affectionate kind of thing you're doing, do it. -- Marion Barry
I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a means of understanding a little better what being human is. -- Diane Ackerman
Babbit was an average father. He was affectionate, bullying, opinionated, ignorant, and rather wistful. Like most parents he enjoyed the game of waiting till the victim was clearly wrong, then virtuously pouncing. -- Sinclair Lewis
Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens. -- Andrew Solomon
That was the Jason most people never noticed. The one who made an effort to spare someone else's feelings. He was being kind to my darling. I cast an affectionate glance at his back." -- A.M. Jenkins
Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate. -- George Eliot
By meditating on affectionate love and wishing love for just one moment we accumulate greater merit than we would by giving food three times every day to all those who are hungry in the world. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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