Love, Richard Rodgers

Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?

― Richard Rodgers (1902-1979), Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella

Attitudes, Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), The Disowned (1828), Chapter xxxiii.

Cold feet, Anonymous

Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them.

- Anonymous

Wisdom, Book of Proverbs

On the countenance of a discerning person is wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

+ Proverbs 17, 24

[17:24] Wisdom is visible on the countenance (i.e., mouth, lips, tongue) of the wise person; its ultimate source is the heart. Fools have no such source of wisdom within them, a point that is nicely made by referring to the eye of the fool, roving over the landscape.

http://www.usccb.org/bible/proverbs/17

Friends, Henry Brooks Adams

Friends are born, not made.

Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) [The Education of Henry Adams (1907) Ch. 7.]

Bribe, Book of Proverbs

A guilty person takes out a bribe from the pocket, thus perverting the course of justice.

+ Proverbs 17, 23

[17:23] A sharp look at the sly withdrawing of a bribe from the pocket and a blunt judgment on its significance.

http://www.usccb.org/bible/proverbs/17

Personality, Western Proverb

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

- Western Proverb