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Quotations about Hugs
Come to supper, all; we have bread and cheese and tea, and hugs and kisses for dessert. ~Jay Benson Hamilton, "How Santa Claus Made One Dollar Hold Out," 1891
Sometimes a silent hug is the only thing to say. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Science has proven that a simple hug is one of the most convenient and inexpensive therapies available. Yet we remain touch starved. ~Leo F. Buscaglia, Born for Love, 1992
An editor thus describes a father's meeting with his daughter at the train... From the middle of the merry throng sprang a good-sized whirlwind. She rushed toward the dignified gentleman who was calmly waiting. Her suitcase flew one way and her umbrella another as she leaped upon him and clasped him about the neck with a hug which would have done credit to a cub bear. His hat flew off, his coat was torn open, and he staggered under the impetuous force of the assault. Of the sleek and dignified person so lately standing calmly on the platform only a happy wreck was left. ~Great Archers and Their Weapons and Fresh Arrows from Many Quivers: A Study of Illustrative Powers of Pulpit Orators, by Louis Albert Banks, 1903 [a little altered —tg]
And then, somehow, I don't know why,
I tell her everything and cry.
She hugs me then, and right away
I feel less sad. That's mother's way...
~Anonymous, "Mother's Way," c.1905
HUG A roundabout way of expressing affection. ~Charles Wayland Towne, The Foolish Dictionary, Executed by Gideon Wurdz, Master of Pholly, Doctor of Loquacious Lunacy, etc., 1904
I felt as if I wanted to hug her. She did hug me — such a nice, velvety hug. ~L. M. Montgomery, Rainbow Valley, 1919
Embracing is vulgarly called hugging or squeezing, and is an operation of endearment that lovers are very apt to fall into when sitting alone by the side of each other. A seat under a tree, that grows on the banks of a limpid stream, where true lovers sit listening to the murmuring of the waters, and looking at their own forms gracefully mirrored beneath them, is a situation in which the arms unconsciously draw the yielding bodies into closer proximity than is absolutely necessary for the ordinary purposes of conversation. ~Theocritus Junior, The Dictionary of Love, 1858
Strong love paralyzes the vocal cords, leaving the functions of speech to looks, hugs, and osculation. ~Sarah L. Minchler
Her companion made no reply save to press her arm closer... ~Florence Bone (1875–1971), The Morning of To-Day, 1907
I will not play at tug o' war.
I'd rather play at hug o' war,
Where everyone hugs
Instead of tugs....
~Shel Silverstein, "Hug o' War," Where the Sidewalk Ends, 1974
There's nothing like a mama-hug. ~Terri Guillemets
We will have two kinds of dessert. Hugs and kisses from mamma, and hugs and kisses from papa... ~Jay Benson Hamilton, "How Santa Claus Made One Dollar Hold Out," 1891
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