Love Quotes
"There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish."
--Alfred Adler
"If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving."
--Anonymous
"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."
--Anonymous
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything."
--Anonymous
"Love is a fan club with only two fans."
--Anonymous
"Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness."
--Anonymous
"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her."
--Anonymous
"Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
--W.H. Auden
"It is impossible to love and be wise."
--Francis Bacon
"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
--James Baldwin
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
--James Baldwin
"Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock."
--John Barrymore
"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."
--Henry Ward Beecher
"A man is only as good as what he loves."
--Saul Bellow
"Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life."
--Smiley Blanton
"From the moment it is touched, the heart cannot dry up."
--Louis Bourdaloue
"The best proof of love is trust."
--Joyce Brothers
"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
--H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach, when feeling out of sightFor the ends of Being and ideal Grace.I love thee to the level of everyday'sMost quiet need, by sun and candle-light.I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.I love thee with the passion put to useIn my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.I love thee with a love I seemed to loseWith my lost saints, -I love thee with the breath,Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose,I shall but love thee better after death."
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together."
--La Bruyere
"But to see her was to love her,Love but her, and love forever."
--Robert Burns
"To live is to love; all reason is against it; instinct is for it."
--Samuel Butler
"Respect is love in plain clothes."
--Frankie Byrne
"Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life."
--Lord Byron
"Love is not altogether a delerium, yet it has many points in common therewith."
--Thomas Carlyle
"Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love."
--John Le Carre
"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."
--Willa Cather
"Love lasteth long as the money endureth."
--William Caxton
"Love is blynde."
--Geoffrey Chaucer
"She lovede Right fro the firste sighte."
--Geoffrey Chaucer
"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."
--Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life."
--Lydia Maria Child
"When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows."
--John Clarke
"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."
--Charles Caleb Colton
"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours."
--Charles Caleb Colton
"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life."
--Joseph Conrad
"lovers alone wear sunlight"
--E.E. Cummings
"Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing;A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using."
--Samuel Daniel
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rabutin
"Love builds bridges where there are none."
--R. H. Delaney
"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end."
--Benjamin Disraeli
"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
--Benjamin Disraeli
"Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks."
--John Donne
"I am two fools, I know, for loving and saying so."
--John Donne
"If thou be'st born to strange sights,
Things invisible to see,
Ride ten thousand days and nights
Till Age snow white hairs on thee;
Thou, when thou return'st wilt tell me
All strange wonders that befell thee,
And swear No where
Lives a woman true and fair."
--John Donne
"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."
--John Donne
"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."
--Henry Drummond
"The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence."
--Albert Ellis
"All mankind loves a lover."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one."
--George Etherege
"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do."
--Nan Fairbrother
"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
--Benjamin Franklin
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
--Erich Fromm
"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two."
--Erich Fromm
"You've got to love what's loveable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference."
--Robert Frost
"Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid."
--Thomas Fuller
"It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with."
--Clark Gable
"A man in love is not complete until he is married. Then he is finished."
--Zsa Zsa Gabor
"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Where there is love there is life."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
--Judy Garland
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
--Kahlil Gibran
"Love is the irresistable desire to be desired irresistably."
--Louis Ginzberg
"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."
--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"When one loves somebody everything is clear -- where to go, what to do -- it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything."
--Maxim Gorky
"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so."
--David Grayson
"The porcupine, whom one must handle gloved,May be respected, but is never loved."
--Arthur Guiterman
"There is only one terminal dignity -- love."
--Helen Hayes
"Love and a cough cannot be hid."
--George Herbert
"People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy."
--Bob Hope
"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
--Victor Hugo
"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved."
--Victor Hugo
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."
--Victor Hugo
"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion."
--Javan
"Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late."
--Douglas Jerrold
"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."
--J. Krishnamurti
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."
--Lao-Tzu
"Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl."
--Stephen Leacock
"To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another."
--Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibnitz
"Love gives itself; it is not bought."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"I could not love thee, dear, so much,Loved I not honor more."
--Richard Lovelace
"Do all things with love."
--Og Mandino
"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished."
--Og Mandino
"There is no living with thee, nor without thee."
--Martial
"You can always get someone to love you, even if you have to do it yourself."
--Tom Masson
"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever."
--Francois Mauriac
"The head never rules the heart but just becomes its partner in crime."
--Michael Mclaughlin
"Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another."
--H. L. Mencken
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."
--H. L. Mencken
"To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess."
--H. L. Mencken
"'Tis not love's going hurts my days,But that it went in little ways."
--Edna St. Vincent Millay
"The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love."
--Henry Miller
"The heart that has truly loved never forgetsBut as truly loves on to the close."
--Thomas Moore
"If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them."
--Christopher Morley
"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love."
--Anais Nin
"I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation."
--Samuel Osgood
"If you want to be loved, be lovable."
--Ovid
"Love and dignity cannot share the same abode."
--Ovid
"The heart has its reasons which the mind cannot comprehend."
--Blaise Pascal
"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection."
--Sidney Poitier
"There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires."
--Marcel Proust
"One is never too old to yearn."
--Italian Proverb
"Love is a kind of military service."
--Latin Proverb
"The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person."
--Vi Putnam
"It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh."
--Agnes Repplier
"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."
--Ranier Maria Rilke
"There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies."
--Franois De La Rochefoucauld
"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."
--La Rochefoucauld
"To know her was to love her."
--Samuel Rogers
"Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body."
--Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"To attract men I wear a perfume called "new car interior.""
--Rita Rudner
"Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."
--Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
--Antoine De Saint-Exupry
"Love is an egoism of two."
--Antoine De La Salle
"Love makes of the wisest man a fool, and of the most foolish woman, a sage."
--Moritz J. Saphir
"I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it."
--Kyle Schmidt
"Love means never having to say you're sorry."
--Erich Segal
"Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, / Romeo? / Deny thy father, and refuse thy name..."
--William Shakespeare
"The course of true love never did run smooth."
--William Shakespeare
"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it."
--George Bernard Shaw
"Romance without finance is no good."
--Willie ''The Lion'' Smith
"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
--Stendhal
"I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
--Lord Alfred Tennyson
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
--Mother Theresa
"A lady of forty-seven who had been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'"
--James Thurber
"The first duty of love is to listen."
--Paul Tillich
"Nunc scio quit sit amor."
--Virgil
"To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
--David Viscott
"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."
--Voltaire
"Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break."
--H.G. Wells
"Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache."
--Mae West
"What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love."
--Brooke Foss Westcott
"One should always be in love. This is the reason why one should never marry."
--Oscar Wilde
"Women are made to be loved, not understood."
--Oscar Wilde
"Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women will forgive them anything, even their gigantic intellects."
--Oscar Wilde
"Yet each man kills the thing he loves..."
--Oscar Wilde
"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."
--Thornton Wilder
"Lovers eminent in love
Ever diversities combine;
The vocal chords of the cushat-dove,
The snake's articulated spine.
Such elective elements
Educate the eye and lip
With one's refreshing innocence,
The other's claim to scholarship.
The serpent's knowledge of the world
Learn, and the dove's more nave charm;
Whether your ringlets should be curled,
And why he likes his claret warm."
--Elinor Wylie
"Wine comes in at the mouthAnd love comes in at the eye;That's all we shall know for truthBefore we grow old and die."
--William Butler Yeats
"In how many lives does Love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera."
--Israel Zangwill
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