Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.
Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.
Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
Hatred of humanity and love of animals make a very bad combination.
Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.
Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.
It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.
Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
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