Love
- 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.
-- Anon.
- Love is a fan club with only two fans.
-- Anon.
- Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- Anon.
- 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 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
- From the moment it is touched, the heart cannot dry up.
-- Louis Bourdaloue
- How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most 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 use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With 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
- 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 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
- 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
- When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows.
-- John Clarke
- 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
- 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
- The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
- Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
-- 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
- 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.
-- Sir George Etherege
- He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- 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
- Love is the irresistable desire to be desired irresistably.
-- Louis Ginzberg
- We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The porcupine, whom one must handle gloved,
May be respected, but is never loved.
-- Arthur Guiterman
- 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
- Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
-- G. Stanley Hall
- Love and a cough cannot be hid.
-- George Herbert
- People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
-- Bob Hope
- The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
-- Victor Hugo
- One is never too old to yearn.
-- Italian Proverb
- Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
-- Douglas Jerrold
- There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld
- Love is an egoism of two.
-- Antoine de La Salle
- Love is a kind of military service.
-- Latin Proverb
- 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 is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
-- John Le Carre
- 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
- 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
- If love and sex are such natural phenomenons how come there are so many books on how to?
-- Bette Middler
- '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 forgets
But 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Love makes of the wisest man a fool, and of the most foolish woman, a sage.
-- Moritz J. Saphir
- The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 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
- 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.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- 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
- 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 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
- Women are made to be loved, not understood.
-- 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 naïve charm;
Whether your ringlets should be curled,
And why he likes his claret warm.
-- Elinor Wylie
- Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That's all we shall know for truth
Before 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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