1. Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.-Mary Wollstonecraft
2. No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness of himself.-Samuel Johnson
3. The fondness we have for self furnishes another long rank of prejudices.-Isaac Watts
4. The more things for which you develop a fondness the richer the life you live.-Dan Buettner
5. A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.-Alexander Hamilton
6. A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.-Baron de Montesquieu
7. Showing a greater fondness for their own opinions than for truth, they sought to deny and disprove the new things which, if they had cared to look for themselves, their own senses would have demonstrated to them.-Galileo Galilei
8. Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.-Pope Paul VI
9. When affection only speaks, truth is not always there.-Thomas Middleton
10. Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated.-Bertrand Russell
11. Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.-Robert Frost
12. Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.-Henri de Montherlant
13. Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.-Zora Neale Hurston
14. Love is the affection of a mind that has nothing better to engage it.-Theophrastus
15. Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth.-William Ellery Channing
16. It is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends.-Dalai Lama XIV
17. True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.-Mary Wollstonecraft
18. Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.-Isabel Allende
19. We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.-Lillian Gordy Carter
20. A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.-Barbara Mertz
21. One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.-Robert Silverberg
22. A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.-Jane Austen
23. Only a mother knows a mother’s fondness.-Mary Wortley Montagu
24. Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.-Mason Cooley
25. Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.-George Eliot
26. A girl’s affections should never be won unsought.-Anne Bronte
27. To lead men, you have to lead them with affection.-J. R. D. Tata
28. Set your affection to infinity and your hate to zero!-Mehmet Murat ildan
29. The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.-Josiah Gilbert Holland
30. Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.-Alain De Botton