#fond

The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it. ↗

— Christine Keeler

#fathers #fondle #got #hated #i

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#counted #counting #does #enough #every

I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder. ↗

— Ernest Dowson

#fonder #grow #i #makes #tart

But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here. ↗

— Dorothy Dunnett

#always #because #chess #father #fondness

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#love #men #otherwise #simply #them

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age? ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#age #babies #enemy #enjoyable #even

Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#bring #corner #democracy #every #fondest

It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#films #fondness #great #i #less

I wasn't terribly aware of Catwoman. She was a DC comics character and as a kid, I wasn't terribly fond of the DC comics characters. I was a Marvel boy. ↗

— Benjamin Bratt

#boy #character #characters #comics #dc

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#because #cat #does #dog #fond