Top 47 Fonder Quotes & Sayings

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.

The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.

I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned . . . than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow.

We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.

I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.

I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..." "Variety is the spice of life" "And from a thousand miles apart" "Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

Once they have actually left office, we seem to grow fonder of our ex-presidents - and they of each other. That's why so many sighed in approval at Michelle Obama's public display of affection with George W. Bush at last month's dedication of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture.

We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.

I've grown fonder for Hillary Clinton since she ran for the presidency. I think that it's emblematic of the Rolling Stones song, you can't always get what you want, i.e., the grail. Sometimes you get what you need. And whatever she's gotten over the last couple of years, being humbled or be it being humbled and see the proletariat come to bat for her, getting outside of the bubble, getting out of this man's shadow, not quite getting the job she wants but a great wonk job.

The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heartbreaks.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder.

Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.

I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in the eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm growing deeper in my sighs; I'm growing careless of my dress; I'm growing frugal of my gold; I'm growing wise; I'm growing yes, I'm growing old!

Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

Absence really can make the heart grow fonder, even when the [man's] feet wander.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.

I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels.

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.

I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.

I am the fonder of my garden for all the trouble it gives me, and the grudging reward that my unending labours exact.

I find I am growing fonder of gardening, listening to music and reading.

A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.

Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

Sometimes, taking a break and going somewhere else and, almost, for both parties, absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Still when it comes to finding fault we are fonder of windows than of mirrors.

Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

People always say to me, 'Well, how can a marriage last when you're away as much as you are?' And I always say, 'Well, absence makes the heart grow fonder.' That time apart from each other has actually strengthened our relationship.

What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.

Filial obedience is the first and greatest requisite of a state; by this we become good subjects to our emperors, capable of behaving with just subordination to our superiors, and grateful dependents on heaven; by this we become fonder of marriage, in order to be capable of exacting obedience from others in our turn; by this we become good magistrates, for early submission is the truest lesson to those who would learn to rule. By this the whole state may be said to resemble one family.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.

Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one night. And they do say that abstinence makes the heart grow firmer, no?" "Absence," I said, dodging the spoon for a moment. "AND fonder. If anything's growing firmer from abstinence, it wouldn't be his heart.

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

Excess makes the heart grow fonder.

Western progress (from one damned thing to another) seems to be essentially the MO of nowhere fast. But, on the other hand, the don't-set-foot-outside-your-own-village/cave ideal or injunction that you find in Buddhism and even in the Daoism of which I'm fonder, seems . . . defeatist. And more than that, it is in contradiction to what nature actually does. Somewhere, somehow, I feel as if these two opposing principles have to be reconciled.