Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

love

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. 3 more quotes from Boethius

Love knows not distance it hath no continent its eyes are for the stars. 4 sayings from Gilbert Parker

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion. 7 sayings from Ninon de L'Enclos

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. 32 other views from William Blake

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love. 52 quotes from Albert Camus

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us. 39 sayings from Robert Louis Stevenson

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. 22 thoughts from Jimi Hendrix

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar. 22 quotes from Jimi Hendrix

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. 29 thoughts from Friedrich Schiller

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. 25 quotes from C. S. Lewis

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. 52 quotes from Albert Camus

To love someone means to see him as God intended him. 10 quotes from Fyodor Dostoevsky

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. 52 other quotes from Albert Camus

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. 22 views from Jimi Hendrix

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. 98 other quotes from Mark Twain

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. 52 quotes from Albert Camus

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. 39 other wisdom & wit from Robert Louis Stevenson

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. 39 wisdom & wit from Robert Louis Stevenson

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. 25 quotes from C. S. Lewis

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. 18 sayings from Baruch Spinoza

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. 9 wisdom & wit from Charles M. Schulz

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. 20 other views from George S. Patton

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. 52 quotes from George Eliot

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. 52 other quotes from George Eliot

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. 9 more views from Carl Sagan

I know of only one duty, and that is to love. 52 other sayings from Albert Camus

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. 52 more thoughts from George Eliot

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. 8 quotes from Oliver Goldsmith

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. 11 thoughts from Bruce Lee

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing. 57 other views from Will Rogers

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. 78 more thoughts from Voltaire

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life. 22 more views from Jimi Hendrix

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life. 22 other views from Jimi Hendrix

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. 52 more wisdom & wit from George Eliot

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. 78 more wisdom & wit from Voltaire

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. 3 other sayings from Max Muller

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. 58 other thoughts from Thomas Carlyle

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy. 10 wisdom & wit from Frank Sinatra

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. 23 other sayings from Walt Disney

Do all things with love. 10 more quotes from Og Mandino

For love is immortality. 26 more thoughts from Emily Dickinson

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. 21 views from Jane Austen

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back. 7 quotes from Henri Matisse

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. 23 views from Walt Disney

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. 10 other wisdom & wit from Og Mandino

Love cannot save you from your own fate. 14 quotes from Jim Morrison

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. 9 sayings from Rainer Maria Rilke

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. 30 sayings from Gustave Flaubert

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. 26 quotes from Emily Dickinson

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. 6 quotes from Alexander Smith

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. 4 quotes from Ellen Key

Love is what you've been through with somebody. 14 quotes from James Thurber

Love shall be our token love be yours and love be mine. 4 more views from Christina Rossetti

One must not trifle with love. 3 quotes from Alfred de Musset

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end. 75 other views from Benjamin Disraeli

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love. 23 quotes from Henry Miller

The only thing we never get enough of is love and the only thing we never give enough of is love. 23 thoughts from Henry Miller

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. 5 quotes from Jean Racine

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. 12 views from Frank Zappa

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. 9 wisdom & wit from Rainer Maria Rilke

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished. 10 quotes from Og Mandino

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. 75 other thoughts from Benjamin Disraeli

Where there is great love, there are always wishes. 9 other quotes from Willa Cather

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. 14 thoughts from Joseph Conrad

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass. 10 quotes from Frank Sinatra

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. 41 thoughts from Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love is trembling happiness. 56 wisdom & wit from Khalil Gibran

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you. 14 other quotes from Loretta Young

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. 12 thoughts from Zora Neale Hurston

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. 56 thoughts from Khalil Gibran

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love. 56 sayings from Khalil Gibran

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. 20 sayings from Thomas Aquinas

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. 36 views from Lord Byron

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. 23 sayings from Helen Rowland

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be. 56 other views from Khalil Gibran

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. 41 other sayings from Martin Luther King, Jr.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls. 10 other sayings from John Donne

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme. 3 views from Francis Beaumont

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. 30 wisdom & wit from Virginia Woolf

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. 12 other quotes from Simone de Beauvoir

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. 10 quotes from William Congreve

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. 15 sayings from Albert Schweitzer

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. 29 quotes from W. Somerset Maugham

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. 26 quotes from E. M. Forster

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. 41 more views from Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved. 45 views from Thomas Fuller

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder. 2 more thoughts from Charles Morgan

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight. 24 quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt

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. 29 other quotes from W. Somerset Maugham

We loved with a love that was more than love. 19 quotes from Edgar Allan Poe

When love is not madness, it is not love. 5 quotes from Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough. 3 views from Pierre Beaumarchais

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. 96 more sayings from Benjamin Franklin

Who loves, raves. 36 quotes from Lord Byron

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. 56 other quotes from Khalil Gibran

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. 14 more quotes from Stendhal

Absence - that common cure of love. 36 views from Lord Byron

All love is lost but upon God alone. 2 other thoughts from William Dunbar

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. 56 quotes from Khalil Gibran

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. 41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. 56 views from Khalil Gibran

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that. 41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. 96 other quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. 56 other wisdom & wit from Khalil Gibran

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. 23 more sayings from Helen Rowland

Friendship is Love without his wings! 36 other thoughts from Lord Byron

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. 36 sayings from Lord Byron

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never. 30 other sayings from Charles Caleb Colton

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers. 56 more thoughts from Khalil Gibran

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. 96 views from Benjamin Franklin

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. 10 quotes from William Congreve

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump. 12 thoughts from Zora Neale Hurston

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. 41 other wisdom & wit from Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. 2 views from Arthur Rubinstein

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. 21 more quotes from George Burns

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. 12 quotes from Simone de Beauvoir

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me. 7 other quotes from Tallulah Bankhead

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. 30 views from Charles Caleb Colton

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. 56 sayings from Khalil Gibran

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us. 14 wisdom & wit from Stendhal

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. 5 quotes from A. A. Milne

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. 56 more thoughts from Khalil Gibran

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. 96 more wisdom & wit from Benjamin Franklin

It is impossible to love and to be wise. 67 thoughts from Francis Bacon

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. 41 other quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. 41 thoughts from Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. 56 other quotes from Khalil Gibran

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms. 56 quotes from Khalil Gibran

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing. 10 views from Edward Abbey

Love is always being given where it is not required. 26 other quotes from E. M. Forster

Love is blind. 6 quotes from Geoffrey Chaucer

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. 29 other quotes from W. Somerset Maugham

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. 12 other quotes from Thomas Merton

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. 26 other sayings from Charles Dickens

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. 21 more thoughts from W. H. Auden

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. 21 more thoughts from Anais Nin

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. 21 other views from Anais Nin

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. 5 quotes from Andre Breton

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. 21 sayings from W. H. Auden

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. 2 views from Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent. 2 sayings from Samuel Lover

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. 21 quotes from Anais Nin

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy. 8 more quotes from Dwight L. Moody

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words. 13 sayings from Francois Rabelais

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. 45 wisdom & wit from John Ruskin

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. 24 quotes from Ayn Rand

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people. 6 more wisdom & wit from Huey Newton

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. 21 quotes from W. H. Auden

If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever. 6 other sayings from Eva Gabor

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. 32 more sayings from Michel de Montaigne

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. 32 quotes from Michel de Montaigne

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun. 26 sayings from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. 7 more thoughts from Lawrence Durrell

It is very easy to love alone. 31 thoughts from Gertrude Stein

Life is the flower for which love is the honey. 73 other quotes from Victor Hugo

Love is a game that two can play and both win. 6 quotes from Eva Gabor

Love is a hole in the heart. 3 quotes from Ben Hecht

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. 73 views from Victor Hugo

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. 12 wisdom & wit from George Jean Nathan

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. 12 thoughts from John Barrymore

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. 3 thoughts from Ben Hecht

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. 5 more quotes from Andre Breton

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness. 73 more quotes from Victor Hugo

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. 73 more quotes from Victor Hugo

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. 26 quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. 21 thoughts from Anais Nin

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. 7 other sayings from Lawrence Durrell

There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. 73 quotes from Victor Hugo

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. 21 thoughts from Anais Nin

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. 4 thoughts from Robert Burton

To good and true love fear is forever affixed. 13 more quotes from Francois Rabelais

To love another person is to see the face of God. 73 sayings from Victor Hugo

To love beauty is to see light. 73 wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.' 24 sayings from Ayn Rand

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? 21 quotes from Anais Nin

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star. 6 more quotes from Sinclair Lewis

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. 16 other quotes from Erich Fromm

Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing. 4 views from Torquato Tasso

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. 16 sayings from Erich Fromm

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God. 9 sayings from Lawrence Welk

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. 105 sayings from Albert Einstein

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. 23 other quotes from Vincent Van Gogh

The way to know life is to love many things. 23 other quotes from Vincent Van Gogh

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does. 4 quotes from Torquato Tasso

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity. 17 quotes from Leo Buscaglia

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. 7 other quotes from Pearl Bailey

Who so loves believes the impossible. 9 other quotes from Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You can't blame gravity for falling in love. 105 wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. 50 more quotes from Robert Frost

A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving. 2 more wisdom & wit from Cyrano de Bergerac

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. 50 other thoughts from Robert Frost

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. 17 quotes from Leo Buscaglia

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever. 17 sayings from Leo Buscaglia

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. 105 other quotes from Albert Einstein

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. 23 quotes from Vincent Van Gogh

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. 17 quotes from Leo Buscaglia

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. 12 quotes from Julius Caesar

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only. 9 other quotes from Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' 16 views from Erich Fromm

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. 16 other quotes from Erich Fromm

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise. 17 other quotes from Leo Buscaglia

Love is a better teacher than duty. 105 other thoughts from Albert Einstein

Love is a friendship set to music. 18 sayings from Joseph Campbell

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love. 17 more quotes from Leo Buscaglia

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. 17 views from Leo Buscaglia

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. 5 more quotes from Octavio Paz

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. 50 views from Robert Frost

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. 17 more sayings from Leo Buscaglia

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. 42 other quotes from Josh Billings

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. 81 other wisdom & wit from William Shakespeare

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. 41 thoughts from Marcus Aurelius

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. 81 other views from William Shakespeare

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain. 5 other quotes from Billie Holiday

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. 11 sayings from William Ellery Channing

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. 2 quotes from Pietro Aretino

If music be the food of love, play on. 81 quotes from William Shakespeare

In art as in love, instinct is enough. 20 thoughts from Anatole France

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. 2 other quotes from Ella Fitzgerald

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. 81 other quotes from William Shakespeare

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. 81 other quotes from William Shakespeare

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. 12 sayings from Thornton Wilder

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on. 5 quotes from Billie Holiday

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. 18 other quotes from Washington Irving

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. 81 other wisdom & wit from William Shakespeare

Love is supreme and unconditional like is nice but limited. 6 wisdom & wit from Duke Ellington

Love is too young to know what conscience is. 81 sayings from William Shakespeare

Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope. 42 more thoughts from Josh Billings

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. 81 other wisdom & wit from William Shakespeare

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. 81 quotes from William Shakespeare

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it. 70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson

Respect is what we owe love, what we give. 6 thoughts from Philip James Bailey

Speak low, if you speak love. 81 sayings from William Shakespeare

The course of true love never did run smooth. 81 more quotes from William Shakespeare

The love of heaven makes one heavenly. 81 more quotes from William Shakespeare

They do not love that do not show their love. 81 other wisdom & wit from William Shakespeare

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. 41 other quotes from Marcus Aurelius

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? 81 quotes from William Shakespeare

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. 35 views from Rabindranath Tagore

Love is the poetry of the senses. 53 quotes from Honore de Balzac

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity. 53 views from Honore de Balzac

Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all. 52 more views from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. 135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. 24 sayings from James A. Baldwin

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. 135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. 23 thoughts from Niccolo Machiavelli

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her. 43 wisdom & wit from Alexander Pope

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love. 53 other wisdom & wit from Honore de Balzac

One is very crazy when in love. 26 more quotes from Sigmund Freud

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee. 22 thoughts from Robert Browning

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man. 2 other views from Tammy Wynette

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to. 2 other quotes from Tammy Wynette

Take away love and our earth is a tomb. 22 sayings from Robert Browning

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. 14 wisdom & wit from Audrey Hepburn

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. 14 more sayings from Audrey Hepburn

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. 45 quotes from Bertrand Russell

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. 16 other wisdom & wit from Hubert H. Humphrey

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one. 53 more quotes from Honore de Balzac

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. 52 other sayings from Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. 3 sayings from Lorraine Hansberry

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. 24 other views from Joseph Addison

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. 45 other wisdom & wit from Bertrand Russell

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. 2 more thoughts from David Viscott

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. 135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love. 26 sayings from Sigmund Freud

We can't command our love, but we can our actions. 14 quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving. 6 more quotes from Bernard Meltzer

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. 26 quotes from Sigmund Freud

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady. 7 other views from Thomas Moore

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. 14 other views from Joseph Joubert

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. 53 views from Honore de Balzac

All mankind love a lover. 135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you. 8 more sayings from Bobby Darin

Don't forget to love yourself. 22 more thoughts from Soren Kierkegaard

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. 135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. 24 more thoughts from James A. Baldwin

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. 14 views from Audrey Hepburn

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror. 2 more sayings from Sid Vicious

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow. 13 other quotes from James M. Barrie

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. 52 more quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. 26 other wisdom & wit from Sigmund Freud

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is. 26 more quotes from Sigmund Freud

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself. 22 quotes from Soren Kierkegaard

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. 24 wisdom & wit from James A. Baldwin

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. 35 other views from Rabindranath Tagore

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters? 24 quotes from James A. Baldwin

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery. 3 quotes from Fulton J. Sheen

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. 35 views from Rabindranath Tagore

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. 21 sayings from Mignon McLaughlin

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many. 53 sayings from Marilyn Monroe

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. 31 more quotes from Helen Keller

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him. 53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. 2 other quotes from John Gay

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. 7 thoughts from Judy Garland

Forgiveness is the final form of love. 15 sayings from Reinhold Niebuhr

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish. 3 other wisdom & wit from Jose Rizal

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. 53 other views from Marilyn Monroe

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. 7 views from Judy Garland

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really. 53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe

I love a natural look in pictures. 53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. 58 thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people. 7 quotes from Judy Garland

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? 5 sayings from Igor Stravinsky

Knowledge is love and light and vision. 31 more views from Helen Keller

Life in abundance comes only through great love. 59 wisdom & wit from Elbert Hubbard

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. 17 other thoughts from Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away. 59 other wisdom & wit from Elbert Hubbard

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. 31 quotes from Helen Keller

Love is the river of life in the world. 58 sayings from Henry Ward Beecher

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. 6 other wisdom & wit from John Ciardi

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death. 59 sayings from Elbert Hubbard

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. 53 more quotes from Marilyn Monroe

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. 21 quotes from Mignon McLaughlin

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had. 53 sayings from Marilyn Monroe

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. 17 more views from Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The love we give away is the only love we keep. 59 other wisdom & wit from Elbert Hubbard

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. 59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. 58 thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. 58 views from Henry Ward Beecher

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. 31 more sayings from Helen Keller

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. 57 more wisdom & wit from Blaise Pascal

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out. 10 sayings from Elizabeth Bowen

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love! 117 more quotes from Henry David Thoreau

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live. 14 more sayings from Robert A. Heinlein

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. 35 more thoughts from Ernest Hemingway

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food. 115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love. 5 more sayings from Marc Chagall

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. 115 more wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. 117 other quotes from Henry David Thoreau

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. 15 other wisdom & wit from Jean de La Fontaine

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. 117 other quotes from Henry David Thoreau

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise. 14 sayings from Robert A. Heinlein

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. 115 more wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous. 45 other quotes from Aldous Huxley

The love of economy is the root of all virtue. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. 115 other views from George Bernard Shaw

There is no remedy for love but to love more. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

There is no sincerer love than the love of food. 115 views from George Bernard Shaw

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. 9 sayings from George Sand

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done. 45 more quotes from Aldous Huxley

Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent. 117 views from Henry David Thoreau

We can only learn to love by loving. 9 thoughts from Iris Murdoch

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. 6 views from Emily Bronte

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. 19 quotes from Carl Jung

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. 9 sayings from Satchel Paige

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off. 8 quotes from Raymond Chandler

All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests. 8 wisdom & wit from Nathaniel Hawthorne

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. 117 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. 9 other wisdom & wit from George Sand

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. 5 thoughts from Aphra Behn

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. 9 more thoughts from Iris Murdoch

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. 115 other quotes from George Bernard Shaw

I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul. 24 sayings from Jean Cocteau

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? 35 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. 117 more thoughts from Henry David Thoreau

I love you more than my own skin. 5 views from Frida Kahlo

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. 4 views from Emmet Fox

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever. 16 quotes from Douglas Horton

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. 117 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. 5 other wisdom & wit from Marc Chagall

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. 31 quotes from Eric Hoffer

It is most unwise for people in love to marry. 115 other views from George Bernard Shaw

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret. 5 more thoughts from Aphra Behn

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. 5 thoughts from Ingrid Bergman

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. 3 other sayings from Rupert Brooke

A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love. 31 other quotes from Mae West

But love's a malady without a cure. 17 views from John Dryden

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment. 50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. 2 views from Hans Urs von Balthasar

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. 18 more quotes from Mother Teresa

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. 13 quotes from Herman Melville

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them. 11 thoughts from Lucille Ball

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. 3 sayings from Theodore Dreiser

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. 11 wisdom & wit from Lucille Ball

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. 18 other quotes from Mother Teresa

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. 18 quotes from Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure, it just gives. 18 other sayings from Mother Teresa

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. 18 more thoughts from Mother Teresa

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. 18 more thoughts from Mother Teresa

Look your best - who said love is blind? 31 quotes from Mae West

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action. 18 other wisdom & wit from Mother Teresa

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home. 18 other quotes from Mother Teresa

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. 31 more sayings from Mae West

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge. 4 quotes from Meir Kahane

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. 18 quotes from Mother Teresa

Love is friendship set on fire. 8 wisdom & wit from Jeremy Taylor

Love is love's reward. 17 other views from John Dryden

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art. 31 views from Mae West

Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. 31 views from Mae West

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. 11 quotes from Lucille Ball

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. 18 more quotes from Mother Teresa

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. 11 thoughts from Lucille Ball

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. 17 wisdom & wit from John Dryden

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. 18 other wisdom & wit from Mother Teresa

The first duty of love is to listen. 11 wisdom & wit from Paul Tillich

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. 18 quotes from Mother Teresa

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. 26 sayings from Jean de la Bruyere

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time! 16 quotes from Coco Chanel

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it Whenever you're right, shut up. 14 wisdom & wit from Ogden Nash

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever. 4 quotes from Henry Drummond

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. 26 quotes from Jean de la Bruyere

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. 10 other quotes from Maurice Maeterlinck

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. 26 other quotes from Theodor Adorno

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. 60 quotes from H. L. Mencken

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. 26 views from Theodor Adorno

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love. 90 more sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better. 13 thoughts from Sydney J. Harris

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. 8 thoughts from Charles Kuralt

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. 90 more thoughts from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. 90 wisdom & wit from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

This love is silent. 23 views from T. S. Eliot

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. 60 other views from H. L. Mencken

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. 90 sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire. 90 other views from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish. 90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving. 15 quotes from Cyril Connolly

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do. 90 views from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We pardon to the extent that we love. 90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. 60 wisdom & wit from H. L. Mencken

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. 60 quotes from H. L. Mencken

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. 60 wisdom & wit from H. L. Mencken

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. 90 views from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Adultery is the application of democracy to love. 60 quotes from H. L. Mencken

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. 21 other thoughts from Leo Tolstoy

For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. 23 more quotes from T. S. Eliot

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. 90 other sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman. 9 other sayings from Elizabeth I

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. 21 quotes from Leo Tolstoy

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. 90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. 12 sayings from Miguel de Unamuno

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures. 90 sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. 90 wisdom & wit from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. 90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. 60 views from H. L. Mencken

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. 60 quotes from H. L. Mencken

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. 12 thoughts from Miguel de Unamuno

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. 60 wisdom & wit from H. L. Mencken

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave. 100 other quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. 103 other quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

All you need is love. 17 quotes from John Lennon

Be of love a little more careful than of anything. 13 more quotes from e. e. cummings

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. 100 other quotes from Oscar Wilde

Everything is clearer when you're in love. 17 wisdom & wit from John Lennon

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something. 17 more quotes from John Lennon

Hatred is blind, as well as love. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. 13 wisdom & wit from e. e. cummings

I love those who do not know how to live for today. 103 more quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. 19 more quotes from John Keats

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. 100 thoughts from Oscar Wilde

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. 4 more thoughts from James Herriot

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. 100 views from Mahatma Gandhi

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. 103 more sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment. 100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. 100 thoughts from Oscar Wilde

Love is being stupid together. 16 more quotes from Paul Valery

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes. 103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is my religion - I could die for it. 19 more thoughts from John Keats

Love is not consolation. It is light. 103 sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow. 17 quotes from John Lennon

Love is the flower you've got to let grow. 17 wisdom & wit from John Lennon

Love is the greatest refreshment in life. 29 thoughts from Pablo Picasso

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. 103 more quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. 100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. 100 more quotes from Oscar Wilde

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood. 103 more views from Friedrich Nietzsche

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

The giving of love is an education in itself. 30 quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. 24 sayings from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. 103 more quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

There are never enough I Love You's. 5 thoughts from Lenny Bruce

There is a woman at the begining of all great things. 8 more sayings from Alphonse de Lamartine

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. 103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. 100 views from Oscar Wilde

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. 103 more thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. 103 views from Friedrich Nietzsche

Those whom the gods love grow young. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

Though lovers be lost love shall not. 3 views from Dylan Thomas

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. 8 other sayings from Alphonse de Lamartine

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. 100 more quotes from Oscar Wilde

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god? 103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense. 13 more quotes from e. e. cummings

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. 103 more views from Friedrich Nietzsche

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? 103 thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil. 103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget. 6 thoughts from Helen Hunt Jackson

Where love is, there God is also. 100 other sayings from Mahatma Gandhi

Where there is love there is life. 100 sayings from Mahatma Gandhi

Who, being loved, is poor? 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. 6 thoughts from Sarah Bernhardt