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Love quotes (273) Love free as air at sight of human ties Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies. Alexander Pope Category: Love Love is a great beautifier. Louisa May Alcott Category: Love I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. Thats 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 Category: Love Sometimes its a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. David Byrne Category: Love The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. Publius Terentius Terence Category: Love Love and a cough cannot be hid. George Herbert Category: Love Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident a tight girdle a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. Judith Viorst Category: Love 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 Category: Love Whenever I hear French spoken as I approve I find myself quietly falling in love. Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton Category: Love You need someone to love you while you are looking for someone to love. Shelagh Delaney Category: Love Respect is love in plain clothes. Frankie Byrne Category: Love To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. Dr. David Viscott Category: Love Love is missing someone whenever youre apart but somehow feeling warm inside because youre close in heart. Kay Knudsen Category: Love Thou are gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream. George Linley Category: Love Work and love these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis. Dr. Theodor Reik Category: Love I believe that if I should die and you were to walk near my grave from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps. Benito Perez Galdos Category: Love To love at all is to be vulnerable. Clive Staples (Jack) Lewis Category: Love Such ever was love's way: to rise it stoops. Robert Browning Category: Love Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. Matt Groening Category: Love When love is not madness it is not love. Pedro Calderon de la Barca Category: Love We are all born mad. Some remain so. Samuel Beckett Category: Love Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. Hoosier Farmer Category: Love Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love. Remy de Gourmont Category: Love You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. Henry Drummond Category: Love Love is not love until loves vunerable. Theodore Roethke Category: Love All you need is love. John Lennon Category: Love What is shape without form; What is chaos without order; What is life without death; What is friendship without love; What isnt? Scott Jesus Watson Category: Love Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting and of all relationships. Jodie Foster Category: Love And I would have now love is over An end to all an end: I cannot having been your lover Stoop to become your friend! Arthur Symons Category: Love Love gives itself; it is not bought. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Category: Love About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them and some wont like you at all. Rita Mae Brown Category: Love To love one that is great is almost to be great ones self. Suzanne Necker Category: Love Love one another and you will be happy. Its as simple and as difficult as that. Michael Leunig Category: Love Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money. Gerald Brenan Category: Love We can only learn to love by loving. Jean Iris Murdoch Category: Love Ive been on a calendar but Ive never been on time. Marilyn Monroe Category: Love Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. Oliver Wendell Holmes Category: Love Nothing so it seems to me said the stranger is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life.... The love of the young for the young that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old that is the beginning of of things longer. Jerome Klapka Jerome Category: Love Immature love says I love you because I need you. Mature love says I need you because I love you. Erich Fromm Category: Love When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as ones own satisfaction or security then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present regardless of the popular usage of the term. Harry Stack Sullivan Category: Love Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. Jose Ortega y Gasset Category: Love Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.... Does not love every instant achieve all around us in the couple or the team the magic feat ... of personalizing by totalizing? And if that is what it can achieve daily on a small scale why should it not repeat this one day on world-wide dimensions? Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Category: Love When you are old and gray and full of sleep And nodding by the fire take down this book And slowly read and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace And loved your beauty with love false or true But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you And loved the sorrows of your changing face. And bending down beside the glowing bars Murmur a little sadly how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars. When you are Old. William Butler Yeats Category: Love What it lies in our power to do it lies in our power not to do. Aristotle Category: Love A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished. Zsa Zsa Gabor Category: Love A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying Long Time No See. Phyllis Battelle Category: Love To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem. Tom Wicker Category: Love A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. Stendhal Category: Love For you see each day I love you more today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. Rosemonde Gerard Category: Love True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing. Leanna L. Bartram Category: Love What thou lovest well remains the rest is dross What thou lovst well shall not be reft from thee What thou lovst well is thy true heritage Whose world or mine or theirs or is it of none? First came the seen then thus the palpable Elysium though it were in the halls of hell. What thou lovest well is thy true heritage. Ezra Pound Category: Love Work and love - these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis. Theodor Reik Category: Love Where love rules there is no will to power; and where power predominates there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. Carl Gustav Jung Category: Love Annabel Lee It was many and many a year ago In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a chil Edgar Allan Poe Category: Love It's an extra dividend when you like the girl you're in love with. Clark Gable Category: Love I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. Sherwood Anderson Category: Love Love is acceptance. When you love someone ... you take them into your heart and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love because we lose a part of ourselves. Andrew Category: Love Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. Mark Twain Category: Love Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. Maurice Chevalier Category: Love Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Harry Emerson Fosdick Category: Love Love that is not madness is not love. Pedro Calderon Category: Love By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever. Lao Tzu Category: Love Where love is concerned too much is not even enough. Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais Category: Love Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Franklin P. Jones Category: Love Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. Martin Luther King Jr. Category: Love All for love and nothing for reward. Edmund Spenser Category: Love I do love I know not what; Sometimes this and sometimes that. Robert Herrick Category: Love Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. He can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes. Gene Hill Category: Love Love talked about can be easily turned aside but love demonstrated is irresistible. W. Stanley Mooneyham Category: Love The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden a dim twilight and a fountain singing to it ... you and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels but I have seen thee and thou art enough. George Moore Category: Love To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness. Sydney Smith Category: Love To be loved be lovable. Publius Ovidius Naso Ovid Category: Love In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person. Margaret C. Anderson Category: Love To love what you do and feel that it matters--how could anything be more fun? Katherine Graham Category: Love Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. Samuel Johnson Category: Love Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. Proverb Category: Love Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Dr. George Washington Carver Category: Love Things are not as they seem and nor are they otherwise. Lankavatara Sutra Category: Love We can do no great things; only small things with great love. Mother Teresa Category: Love Anyone can be passionate but it takes real lovers to be silly. Rose Franken Category: Love Love is so much better when you are not married. Maria Callas Category: Love That is the true season of love when we believe that we alone can love that no one could ever have loved so before us and that no one will love in the same way as us. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Category: Love Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it. Woody Allen Category: Love Goodness armed with power is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. Reinhold Niebuhr Category: Love The true perfection of man lies not in what man has but in what man is. Oscar Wilde Category: Love Have you even been in love? Horrible isnt it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor for years so Neil Gaiman Category: Love Love and do what you like. St. Augustine Category: Love In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnishd dove; In the spring a young mans fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Love He gave her a look you could have poured on a waffle. Ring Lardner Category: Love Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. Smiley Blanton Category: Love No love no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. François Muriac Category: Love Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. Daniel S. Greenberg Category: Love What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer for is the test of love. Brook Foss Westcott Category: Love Love thy neighbor as yourself but choose your neighborhood. Louise Beal Category: Love The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom. Antoine Bret Category: Love I am a Queen but I have not the power to move my arms. Louise Category: Love We used to think that if we knew one we knew two because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and.' Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington Category: Love 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 Category: Love Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. Saint Thomas Aquinas Category: Love True love is night jasmine a diamond in darkness the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles fashioned of fleecy clouds a handful of stars tossed into the night sky. Jim Bishop Category: Love Let us be about setting high standards for life love creativity and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to. Greg Anderson Category: Love The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love. Margaret Atwood Category: Love The night has a thousand eyes And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done. Francis William Bourdillon Category: Love There is a comfort in the strength of love: 'Twill make a thing endurable which else Would overset the brain or break the heart. William Wordsworth Category: Love Do all things with love. Og Mandino Category: Love Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. Boethius Category: Love ARDOR n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Love You don't have to go looking for love when its where you come from. Werner Erhard Category: Love Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? Kung Fu-tzu Confucius Category: Love Whenever you have truth it must be given with love or the message and the messenger will be rejected. Mahatma Gandhi Category: Love A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. James Russell Lowell Category: Love Where there is great love there are always wishes. Willa Cather Category: Love For what is love itself for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love. George Eliot Category: Love Love wasnt put in your heart to stay. Love isnt love until you give it away. Michael W. Smith Category: Love 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 M. Child Category: Love You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. Barbara De Angelis PhD Category: Love To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose is the next best thing. Maximillian Arturo Category: Love The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. Amantium irae amoris integratiost Publius Terence (P. Terentius Afer) Category: Love The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love. Francis Bacon Category: Love When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin Category: Love I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today. William Allen White Category: Love He drew a circle that shut me out Heretic rebel a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win; We drew a circle that took him in! Charles Edwin Markham Category: Love To know her was to love her. Samuel Rogers Category: Love Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense. Helen Rowland Category: Love Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope to love - and to put its trust in life. Joseph Conrad Category: Love I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation. F. S. Osgood Category: Love Before I met my husband Id never fallen in love. Id stepped in it a few times. Rita Rudner Category: Love The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. Maureen Duffy Category: Love Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. Mae West Category: Love Two souls with but a single thought Two hearts that beat as one. Maria Lovell Category: Love Love is not blind - it sees more not less. But because it sees more it is willing to see less. Julins Gordon Category: Love The pleasure of love is in loving. We are much happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Category: Love He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he would like to have. Socrates Category: Love Loving someone is not about keeping things from them or protecting them or controlling what they feel its about letting them be free. A. W. Cass Category: Love 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. The Bible Category: Love Love is a game that two can play and both win. Eva Gabor Category: Love Love's like the measlesall the worse when it comes late in life. Douglas William Jerrold Category: Love If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. Katherine Mansfield Category: Love Hell madame is to love no longer. Georges Bernanos Category: Love Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. Javan Category: Love We usually see only the things we are looking for so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not. Eric Hoffer Category: Love A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin Category: Love The greatest pleasure of life is love. Sir William Temple Category: Love A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who were pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us with that one person were safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings our sense of direction. When were two balloons and together our direction is up chances are weve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. Richard David Bach Category: Love Platonic love is love from the neck up. Thyra Samter Winslow Category: Love Love is the state in which man sees things Most widely different from what they are. Friedrich Nietzsche Category: Love Love is not altogether a delirium yet it has many points in common therewith. I call it rather a discerning of the infinite in the finite. Thomas Carlyle Category: Love In love there are things bodies and words. Joyce Carol Oates Category: Love Its a song of a merry man moping mum whose soul was sad and whose glance was glum who sipped no sup and who craved no crumb as he sighed for the love of a lady. William Schwenck Gilbert Category: Love A Book of Verses underneath the Bough A Jug of Wine a Loaf of Bread and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness Oh Wilderness were Paradise now! Edward Fitzgerald Category: Love And now good morrow to our waking souls Which watch not one another out of fear; For love all love of other sights controls And makes one little room an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone Let maps to other worlds on worlds have shown Let us possess one world each hath one and is one. John Donne Category: Love Love is as much of an object as an obsession everybody wants it everybody seeks it but few ever achieve it those who do will cherish it be lost in it and among all never ... never forget it. Curtis Judalet Category: Love The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Category: Love Love does not just sit there like a stone; it had to be made like bread remade all the time made new. Ursula Le Guin Category: Love 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 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 childhoods faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saintsI love thee with the breadth Smiles tears of all my life!and if God choose I shall but love thee better after death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Category: Love We can only love what we know. Anna Letitia (Aikin) Barbauld Category: Love In the race for love I was scratched. Joan Davie Category: Love Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex. Julian Barnes Category: Love Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved. George Crabbe Category: Love Love they say enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true but I know too that without love we grope the tunnels of our lives and never see the sun. When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself. I lifted my hand in wonderment and felt my cheeks my neck. This was me. And when I had looked at myself and grown accustomed to who I was I was not afraid to hate parts of me because I wanted to be worthy of the mirror bearer. Jeanette Winterson Category: Love A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. Frank A. Clark Category: Love The great tragedy of life is not that men perish But that they cease to love. William Somerset Maugham Category: Love 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 Category: Love We are all born for love.... It is the principle of existence and its only end. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Love Love is like the moon when it does not increase it decreases. Segur Category: Love And God said love me love them and love it and don't forget to love yourself. Fynn Category: Love But there s nothing half so sweet in life As loves young dream. Charles Lamb Category: Love Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. Charles M. Schulz Category: Love But to see her was to love her Love but her and love forever. Robert Burns Category: Love The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. Jean de la Bruyere Category: Love It is most unwise for people in love to marry. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Love We must always think about things and we must think about things as they are not as they are said to be. George Bernard Shaw Category: Love The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. Anaïs Nin Category: Love 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 Category: Love The more you love the more you can love and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough he could love all of that majority who are decent and just. Robert Anson Heinlein Category: Love To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. Francois Mauriac Category: Love It is better to give love. Hatred is a low and degrading motion and is so poisonous that no man is strong enough to use it safely. The hatred we think we are directing against some person or thing or system has a devilish way of turning back upon us. When we seek revenge we administer slow poison to ourselves. When we administer affection it is astonishing what magical results we obtain. Thomas Dreier Category: Love The porcupine whom we must handle gloved may be respected but is never loved. Arthur Guiterman Category: Love Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. Francois Voltaire Category: Love To fall in love is easy even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. Anna Louise Strong Category: Love Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Category: Love Tell me who admires you and loves you and I will tell you who you are. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve Category: Love We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Thomas Eugene (Tom) Robbins Category: Love In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera. Israel Zangwill Category: Love Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. Miguel De Unamuno Category: Love Never seek to tell thy love Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind does move Silently invisibly. I told my love I told my love I told her all my heart; Trembling cold in ghastly fears Ah she doth depart. Soon as she was gone from me A traveler came by Silently invisibly He took her with a sigh. William Blake Category: Love Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James A. Baldwin Category: Love Its so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire when you know something is going to happen thats the most exalting. Anouk Aimee Category: Love The love we give away is the only love we keep. Elbert Hubbard Category: Love We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master so as to confirm ourselves as active agents in controlof our own destinies and worthy of respect from others. Thomas Szasz Category: Love Love is my religion - I could die for it. John Keats Category: Love To love something is to give it room enough to grow. Unknown Category: Love Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house you can never tell. Joan Crawford Category: Love Love such as in society is only the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two bodies. Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort Category: Love 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 Category: Love Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret. Aphra Behn Category: Love Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise the flexibility of the child the sensitivity of the artist the understanding of the philosopher the acceptance of the saint the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain. Leo Buscaglia Category: Love So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others I would say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. Robert Louis Stevenson Category: Love Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Iris Murdoch Category: Love The man who is most hateful to God is the one who quarrels and disputes most. Prophet Muhammad Category: Love The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way. Plato Category: Love 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 Category: Love Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are. John Dryden Category: Love Never judge someone by who hes in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Cynthia Heimel Category: Love People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. Douglas Yates Category: Love Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. Saint Augustine Category: Love Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. Lord Thomas Dewar Category: Love It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love. Jean Baptiste Moliere Category: Love Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that mens behavior is measured with a feminine ruler. Francesca M. Cancian Category: Love Love is a hole in the heart. Ben Hecht Category: Love The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone. E.M. Cioran Category: Love Love me litle love me long. 1546 John Heywood Category: Love 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 Eyquem de Montaigne Category: Love Love is metaphysical gravity. R. Buckminster Fuller Category: Love Much of our love is confined to mere lip service and dreams of good deeds accomplished but true love must be expressed in unselfish acts of kindness that bring others closer to our Heavenly Father. Jack H. Goaslind Jr. Category: Love When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. Elizabeth Bowen Category: Love A lady of 47 who has been married 27 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 Category: Love What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. Pearl Bailey Category: Love Love doesnt just sit there like a stone; it has to be made like bread remade all the time made new. Ursula K. LeGuin Category: Love Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Category: Love Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection must rest on circumstantial evidence. George Santayana Category: Love Tell me what ticks you off and I will tell you what makes you tick. Lloyd John Ogillvie Category: Love Oh when I was in love with you Then I was clean and brave And miles around the wonder grew How well I did behave. And now the fancy passes by And nothing will remain And miles around theyll say that I Am quite myself again. Alfred Edward Housman Category: Love Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery Category: Love All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. Julie Andrews Category: Love I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so for one instance I thought Good God what have I said? and then I knew it was true. Bertrand Russell Category: Love That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; But that which is good is always beautiful. Category: Love Love is something eternalthe aspects may change but not the essence. There is the same diflference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is buming. The lamp was there and it is a good lamp but now it is shedding light too and that is its real function. Vincent van Gogh Category: Love Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost Category: Love All thoughts all passions all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed his sacred flame. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Category: Love Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each others cup but drink not of one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous but let each one of you be alone Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts but not into each others keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow. Kahlil Gibran Category: Love It takes courage to love but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and giving out nothing receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. Eleanor Roosevelt Category: Love There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred 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 Category: Love Love is above all the gift of oneself. Jean Anouilh Category: Love Mans love is of mans life a thing apart Tis womans whole existence. Lord George Gordon Byron Category: Love Love is not singular except in syllable. Marvin Taylor Category: Love Let those love now who never loved before; Let those who always loved now love the more. Thomas Parnell Category: Love It is probably not love that makes the world go around but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals. Fred Allen Category: Love Hatred does not cease by hatred but only by love this is the eternal rule. Guatama Buddha Category: Love O what a heaven is love! O what a hell! Thomas Dekker Category: Love 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 Category: Love Love is much like a wild rose beautiful and calm but willing to draw blood in its defense. Mark Overby Category: Love The ablity to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts. Heywood Campbell Broun Category: Love Where there is marriage without love there will be love without marriage. Benjamin Franklin Category: Love To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine Category: Love Age does not protect you from love. But love to some extent protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau Category: Love There is nothing half so sweet in life As loves young dreams. Thomas Moore Category: Love And if I loved you Wednesday Well what is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - So much is true. Edna St. Vincent Millay Category: Love If ever two were one then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife then thee. If every wife was happy with a man Compare with me ye women if you can. Anne Dudley Bradstreet Category: Love Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. Viktor E. Frankl Category: Love Do you not know I am a woman? when I think I must speak. William Shakespeare Category: Love Countries are well cultivated not as they are fertile but as they are free. Charles-Louis de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu Category: Love It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. John Bulwer Category: Love Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are. Bernardo Alberto Houssaye Category: Love All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love And its familiar voice wearies not ever. ...... They who inspire it most are fortunate As I am now; but those who feel it most Are happier still. Percy Bysshe Shelley Category: Love The best proof of love is trust. Dr. Joyce Brothers Category: Love The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. Hubert H. Humphrey Jr. Category: Love Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor and vise versa. Karl Augustus Menninger Category: Love Love is an attempt at penetrating another being but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. Otavio Paz Category: Love Love is all we have the only way that each can help the other. Euripides Category: Love If you wished to be loved love. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Love You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. Jonathan Carroll Category: Love Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love. e e cummings Category: Love That love is all there is is all we know of love. Emily Dickinson Category: Love To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written. Jean Jacques Rousseau Category: Love Looking back I have this to regret that too often when I loved I did not say so. David Grayson Category: Love No cord or cable can draw so forcibly or bind so fast as love can do with a single thread. Robert Burton Category: Love 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 Category: Love There is a lady sweet and kind Was never face so pleased my mind; I did but see her passing by And yet I love her till I die Thomas Ford Category: Love Love I find is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. Zora Neale Hurston Category: Love Alls fair in love and war. Francis Edward Smedley Category: Love Love means never having to say youre sorry. Erich Segal Category: Love Love is a boy by poets styld; Then spare the rod and spoil the child. Samuel Butler Category: Love |
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