Fond Quotes

I did, but I'm not real fond of giving interviews.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity.

I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a medium and of course, there are some that I've enjoyed making more than others but I've enjoyed making all of them.

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.

I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself.

I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

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.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too!

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.