“ We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
~ Sam Keen”
“ My love for you a yearling became many eons ago Saiom Shriver.
~ Saiom Shriver”
“ Those who ask for love in return are coolies demanding wages.
~ Sai Baba”
“ The greatest thing you can do for someone is to love them and show them how to love back.
~ Sadie Christman”
“ A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
~ Rupert Brooke”
“ For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~ Rosemonde Gerard”
“ Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
~ Robert Frost”
“ You've got to love what's loveable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
~ Robert Frost”
“ Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
~ Rita Rudner”
“ To attract men I wear a perfume called 'new car interior.'.
~ Rita Rudner”
“ I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.
~ Richard Lovelace”
“ Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
~ Richard Bach”
“ In this world of extremes, we can only love too little.
~ Rich Cannarella”
“ Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
~ Ranier Maria Rilke”
“ For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation -Rainer Maria Rilke.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke”
“ Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
~ PJ O Rourke”
“ Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
~ Pierre Corneille”
“ The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
~ Philip James Bailey”
“ Could I love less, I should be happier now.
~ Philip James Bailey”
“ The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
~ Philip James Bailey”
“ Love spends his all, and still hath store.
~ Philip James Bailey”
“ I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
~ Philip James Bailey”
“ Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together. -Phil Jackson.
~ Phil Jackson”
“ Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
~ Peter Ustinov”
“ The first duty of love is to listen.
~ Paul Tillich”
“ A blind person, in reality, is the only person who can truly see. They know first hand what true love is, without the use of eyes, but with the heart. And that is the truest form of love, and they harness it.
~ Paul Acquasanta”
“ Banish night! Welcome light! Love is the brightest star!
~ Pandeva Ted Zagar”
“ In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. No matter what, no matter where, it's always home, if love is there. -P. L. Berger.
~ P L Berger”
“ To be loved, be lovable. -Ovid.
~ Ovid”
“ Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
~ Ovid”
“ If you want to be loved, be lovable.
~ Ovid”
“ Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him,easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.
~ Ovid”
“ The path to the Mideast is littered with Nobel peace laureates who have not yet achieved what can only be achieved in each heart.
~ O Anna Niemus”
“ Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. -Nora Roberts.
~ Nora Roberts”
“ Speak to me of love, said St Francis to the almond tree, and the tree blossomed.
~ Nicholas Kazantzakis”
“ He is out of my mind but forever in my heart.
~ N Rome”
“ If things on earth may be to heaven resembled, It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.
~ Mrs Aphra Johnson Behn”
“ Jerry: I love you ... you complete me.
~ Movie”
“ If you judge people you have no time to love them.
~ Mother Theresa”
“ We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
~ Mother Teresa”
“ The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. -Mother Teresa.
~ Mother Teresa”
“ We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -Mother Teresa.
~ Mother Teresa”
“ It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters. -Mother Teresa.
~ Mother Teresa”
“ Love makes of the wisest man a fool, and of the most foolish woman, a sage.
~ Moritz J Saphir”
“ If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
~ Michel de Montaigne”
“ The head never rules the heart but just becomes its partner in crime.
~ Michael Mclaughlin”
“ 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”
“ The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
~ Maureen Duffy”
“ Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain.
~ Matthew Arnold”
“ Love is not singular except in syllable.
~ Marvin Taylor”
“ There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
~ Martial”
“ Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
~ Mark Overby”
“ Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
~ Marianne Williamson”
“ The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
~ Margaret Atwood”
“ 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”
“ Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
~ Marcel Proust”
“ Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
~ Mae West”
“ Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache. -Mae West.
~ Mae West”
“ Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
~ Mae West”
“ We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
~ Madame De Sta!euml;l”
“ We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. -Luciano de Crescenzo.
~ Luciano De Crescenzo”
“ Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
~ Louise Erdrich”
“ Love is a great beautifier.
~ Louisa May Alcott”
“ Love is the irresistable desire to be desired irresistably.
~ Louis Ginzberg”
“ From the moment it is touched, the heart cannot dry up.
~ Louis Bourdaloue”
“ Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
~ Lord Tennyson”
“ Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
~ Lord Byron”
“ Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and VERY important. -Lisa Hoffman.
~ Lisa Hoffman”
“ To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and happiness.
~ Lily Collins”
“ If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
~ Leo Tolstoy”
“ Love is a kind of military service.
~ Latin Proverb”
“ The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start counting them on one hand, you don't need many fingers.
~ Larry Flynt”
“ Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's.
~ La Bruyere”
“ We can only hate the person whom we love.
~ Kazi Shams”
“ Love is like quick sand, if u fall in it then there is no way out.
~ Kazi Shams”
“ Love is a disease, if you catch it then there is no cure for it, just like cancer.
~ Kazi Shams”
“ Food there was none, Shelter there was none but love was there in plenty, Hence I was the richest man in the world.
~ Kazi Shams”
“ To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven Thanks to Art & Mara Protas Karen Sunde
~ Karen Sunde”
“ Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
~ Julins Gordon”
“ All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
~ Julie Andrews”
“ Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
~ Judith Viorst”
“ Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
~ John Le Carre”
“ Love is my religion - I could die for it.
~ John Keats”
“ I am two fools, I know, for loving and saying so.
~ John Donne”
“ Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
~ John Donne”
“ When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows.
~ John Clarke”
“ Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
~ John Ciardi”
“ Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
~ John Barrymore”
“ Love is friendship set on fire. thanks to a subscriber -Jeremy Irons.
~ Jeremy Irons”
“ Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
~ Javan”
“ In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. -Janos Arnay.
~ Janos Arnay”
“ In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
~ Janos Arany”
“ 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”
“ We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
~ Jacques Maritain”
“ Love fails, only when we fail to love. -J. Franklin.
~ J Franklin”
“ I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
~ J D Salinger”
“ One is never too old to yearn.
~ Italian Proverb”
“ 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”
“ Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
~ Isak Dinesen”
“ Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. -Iris Murdoch.
~ Iris Murdoch”
“ I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
~ Henry Ward Beecher”
“ Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
~ Henry van Dyke”
“ The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
~ Henry Miller”
“ Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
~ Helen Rowland”
“ There is only one terminal dignity - love.
~ Helen Hayes”
“ that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soulmate, and your love.
~ Helen Adams Keller”
“ In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
~ Hans Nouwens”
“ 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”
“ 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”
“ Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
~ H L Mencken”
“ To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
~ Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz”
“ The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
~ Gilbert K Chesterton”
“ A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
~ George Jean Nathan”
“ Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
~ G Stanley Hall”
“ There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche”
“ Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
~ French Proverb”
“ Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Hamilton Wright Mabie -Franklin P. Jones.
~ Franklin P Jones”
“ Love truth, but pardon error.
~ Francois Voltaire”
“ No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
~ Francois Mauriac”
“ Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.
~ Francesca M Cancian”
“ Love is a game that two can play and both win.
~ Eva Gabor”
“ Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
~ Euripides”
“ There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
~ Erich Fromm”
“ Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
~ Erich Fromm”
“ There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary. -Emmanuel.
~ Emmanuel”
“ Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.
~ Emily Dickinson”
“ When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
~ Elizabeth Bowen”
“ I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning”
“ Who so loves believes the impossible.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning”
“ You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning”
“ The love we give away is the only love we keep.
~ Elbert Hubbard”
“ The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.
~ Edward Thomas”
“ Thy name is in my heart as in a sheep-bell from Cyrano.
~ Edmund Rostand”
“ lovers alone wear sunlight.
~ E e Cummings”
“ People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. -Douglas Yates.
~ Douglas Yates ”
“ Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
~ Douglas Jerrold”
“ Teaching Children to Love
~ Doc Childre”
“ Our true identity is to love without fear and insecurity. Our higher potential finds us when we set our course in that direction. The power of love and compassion transforms insecurity.
~ Doc Childre”
“ Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. K Knight -Dinah Shore.
~ Dinah Shore”
“ Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
~ Denis Waitley”
“ To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
~ David Viscott”
“ Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.
~ Daniel S Greenberg”
“ It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.
~ Clark Gable”
“ If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
~ Christopher Morley”
“ 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 ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm Charles Dickens in David Copperfield.
~ Charles Dickens”
“ 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”
“ To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
~ Charles A Lindbergh”
“ I don't know, I guess I figured out that in a relationship you can't choose when you want to like this person or that one...you're in a relationship for a reason and you need to stick with it or give it up. And I'm not ready to give it up.
~ Carey Blackmar”
“ The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
~ Buddha”
“ What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.
~ Brooke Foss Westcott”
“ The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
~ Brandan Behan”
“ Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
~ Boethius”
“ People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
~ Bob Hope”
“ The heart has its reasons which the mind cannot comprehend.
~ Blaise Pascal”
“ We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
~ Blaise Pascal”
“ Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
~ Bible”
“ Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
~ Bible”
“ There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
~ Bible”
“ Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
~ Alexander Pope”
“ When you fall , you damage when you fall in love with somebody your love for them stays with you forever if you fall out of love, you where never really in love once you fall, you can't fall out of it, you only fall.
~ Anonymous”
“ No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
~ Anonymous”
“ If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
~ Anonymous”
“ Love one another as Jesus loves you. Try to show kindness in all that you do. Be gentle and loving in deed and in thought, For these are the things Jesus taught.
~ Anonymous”
“ Love is my sword, goodness my armor, and humor my shield.
~ Anonymous”
“ Love your friend with his faults.
~ Anonymous”
“ Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.
~ Anonymous”
“ Love can cure heartbreaks, misfortune, or tragedy. It is the eternal companion.
~ Anonymous”
“ Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen.
~ Anonymous”
“ Love may conquer all, but it needs time as its field general.
~ Anonymous”
“ Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance.
~ Anonymous”
“ If love and sex are such natural phenomenons how come there are so many books on how to?
~ Bette Middler”
“ Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
~ Bette Davis”
“ He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much. -Bessie Stanley.
~ Bessie Stanley”
“ Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
~ Bertrand Russell”
“ Many people when they fall in love look for a little
~ Bertrand Russell”
“ He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
~ Benjamin Franklin”
“ The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
~ Benjamin Disraeli”
“ I have you. A lover and a friend. You are everything I need. You are the sun, the air I breathe. Without you, life wouldn't be the same. Please don't ever go away. And if you go, then don't forget to take me with you.
~ Basia”
“ Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
~ Barbara Johnson”
“ For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
~ Baba Dioum”
“ The porcupine, whom one must handle gloved, May be respected, but is never loved.
~ Arthur Guiterman”
“ Why love if losing hurts so much
~ Anthony Hopkins”
“ The one who loves least controls the relationship.
~ Anonymous”
“ To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. thanks to Ashley -Anonymous love quote.
~ Anonymous”
“ You don't have to touch someone to love them, It's not in the kiss, It's in the times you don't kiss.
~ Anonymous”
“ To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
~ Anna Strong”
“ Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
~ Andy Warhol”
“ The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
~ Anais Nin”
“ I hold it true, whateer befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson”
“ 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”
“ One sweet, sad secret holds my heart in thrall; A mighty love within my breast has grown, Unseen, unspoken, and of no one known; And of my sweet, who gave it, least of all
~ Alexis Felix Arvers”
“ Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
~ Alexander Pope”
“ Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. -Albert Einstein.
~ Albert Einstein”
“ Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love.
~ Albert Einstein”
“ Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. -Alexander Smith.
~ Alexander Smith”
“ After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.
~ Albert Camus”
“ It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
~ Agnes Repplier”
“ Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them,
~ Abraham Lincoln”
“ If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
~ A A Milne”
“ A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
~ Wyatt, Woodrow”
“ We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
~ Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann”
“ Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
~ Williamson, Marianne”
“ To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
~ Wilhelm von Leibnitz, Gottfried”
“ There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
~ Wilder, Thornton”
“ Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!
~ Wilde, Oscar”
“ When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
~ Wilde, Oscar”
“ When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
~ Wilde, Oscar”
“ Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
~ Warhol, Andy”
“ Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
~ Voltaire”
“ Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
~ Voltaire”
“ I have to admit that I fell in love twice. First was with you and the second was with the person you became when you were already mine.
~ Unknown”
“ No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
~ Unknown”
“ If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.
~ Unknown”
“ Love. What is love? No one can define it, its something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love is beyond, what man can define, for love is immortal, and God's gift is divine.
~ Unknown”
“ Love is very real, you will find it someday, but it has one enemy-and that's life.
~ Unknown”
“ Love doesn't cause pain, people do.
~ Unknown”
“ There is only one sort of love but there are athousand of copies.
~ Unknown”
“ Love is knowing that you want to spend the rest ofyour life with someone, and not knowing if they want to spend it with you.
~ Unknown”
“ A heart that loves is always young.
~ Unknown”
“ Love is perfect, even when we are not.
~ Unknown”
“ If it's wrong to love you, then my heart just wont let me be right.
~ Unknown”
“ Love is what the heart needs.
~ Unknown”
“ If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
~ Tolstoy, Leo”
“ There is no remedy for love but to love more.
~ Thoreau, Henry David”
“ Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
~ Tennyson, Alfred Lord”
“ The greatest pleasure of life is love.
~ Temple, William”
“ So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.
~ Swift, Jonathan”
“ Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
~ Swedenborg”
“ To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
~ Stendhal”
“ First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of
~ Shaw, George Bernard”
“ Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, <
~ Shakespeare, William”
“ Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; <
~ Shakespeare, William”
“ Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. (As You Like It)
~ Shakespeare, William”
“ Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.
~ Shakespeare, William”
“ Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
~ Shakespeare, William”
“ They do not love that do not show their love.
~ Shakespeare, William”
“ The course of true love never did run smooth.
~ Shakespeare, William”
“ If you wished to be loved, love.
~ Seneca”
“ Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
~ Scott, Sir Walter”
“ Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
~ Russell, Bertrand”
“ Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
~ Russell, Bertrand”
“ Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
~ Rowland, Helen”
“ Love begets love. This torment is my joy.
~ Roethke, Theodore”
“ The woman cries before the wedding, the man after.
~ Proverb”
“ Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
~ Pope, Alexander”
“ We conceal it from ourselves in vain--we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
~ Pascal, Blaise”
“ Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.
~ Ovid”
“ I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.
~ Osgood, Samuel”
“ I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
~ Beecher, Henry Ward”
“ There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
~ Nietzsche, Friedrich”
“ A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
~ Nathan, George Jean”
“ The hunger for love is much more difficult to removethan the hunger for bread.
~ Mother Teresa”
“ Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
~ Moore, Thomas”
“ Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another.
~ Mencken, H.L.”
“ We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
~ Maugham, W. Somerset”
“ We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
~ Maritain, Jacques”
“ This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
~ Mann, Thomas”
“ Love gives itself; it is not bought.
~ Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth”
“ To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its missi
~ Lindbergh, Charles A.”
“ Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
~ La Rochefoucauld, Fran?ois”
“ True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
~ La Rochefoucauld, Fran?ois”
“ There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies.
~ La Rochefoucauld, Fran?ois”
“ I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
~ Bailey, Gamaliel”
“ Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
~ Jong, Erica”
“ Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
~ Jerrold, Douglas”
“ The love we give away is the only love we keep.
~ Hubbard, Elbert”
“ Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
~ Auden, W. H.”
“ Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
~ Gordon, George”
“ A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
~ Gandhi, Mahatma”
“ Hatred is blind, as well as love.
~ Fuller, Thomas”
“ Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's ownself.
~ Fromm, Erich”
“ There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love
~ Fromm, Erich”
“ Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
~ French proverb”
“ He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
~ Franklin, Benjamin”
“ Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
~ Florian, Jean Pierre Claris”
“ He is not a lover who does not love forever.
~ Euripides”
“ Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
~ Euripides”
“ Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
~ Erdrich, Louise”
“ All mankind loves a lover.
~ Emerson, Ralph Waldo”
“ O, if thou car'st not whom I love alas, thou lov'st not me.
~ Donne, John”
“ Love is agrowing, to full constant light; and his first minute, after noon, is night.
~ Donne, John”
“ Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
~ Donne, John”
“ If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
~ Anon.”
“ The one who loves least controls the relationship.
~ Anon.”
“ Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
~ Dinesen, Isak”
“ Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality.
~ Dickinson, Emily”
“ Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
~ Davis, Bette”
“ Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
~ Crisp, Quentin”
“ Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
~ Corneille, Pierre”
“ You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache orrheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
~ Adams, Henry”
“ Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship-never.
~ Colton, Charles C.”
“ 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.
~ Coleridge, Samuel T.”
“ Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
~ Ciardi, John”
“ The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
~ Chesterton, G.K.”
“ Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
~ Cervantes, Miguel de”
“ Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.
~ Byron, Lord”
“ Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
~ Byron, Lord”
“ Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
~ Byron, Lord”
“ If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
~ Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert”
“ Love is energy of life.
~ Browning, Robert”
“ If thou must love me, let it be for nought<
~ Browning, Elizabeth Barrett”
“ Whoso loves Believes the impossible.
~ Browning, Elizabeth Barrett”
“ Love is a great beautifier.
~ Alcott, Louisa May”
“ When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
~ Bowen, Elizabeth”
“ It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
~ Bovee, Christian Nestell”