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.

Love knows not distance it hath no continent its eyes are for the stars.

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

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.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

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.

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

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.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Do all things with love.

For love is immortality.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Love cannot save you from your own fate.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

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

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Love shall be our token love be yours and love be mine.

One must not trifle with love.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

The only thing we never get enough of is love and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

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

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

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

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Love is trembling happiness.

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

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

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

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

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

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

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

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

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

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.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

When love is not madness, it is not love.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Who loves, raves.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Absence - that common cure of love.

All love is lost but upon God alone.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

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

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

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.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

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.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

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.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Love is always being given where it is not required.

Love is blind.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

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.

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

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.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

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.

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.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than 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.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

It is very easy to love alone.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

Love is a hole in the heart.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

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.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

To love beauty is to see light.

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

The way to know life is to love many things.

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.

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

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Who so loves believes the impossible.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

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.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

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

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Love is a friendship set to music.

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

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

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

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.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

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.

If music be the food of love, play on.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

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.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Love is supreme and unconditional like is nice but limited.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

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

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Respect is what we owe love, what we give.

Speak low, if you speak love.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

They do not love that do not show their love.

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.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

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

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

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.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

One is very crazy when in love.

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

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.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

All mankind love a lover.

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.

Don't forget to love yourself.

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.

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.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

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.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

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

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

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.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

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.

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

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.

I love a natural look in pictures.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

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.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

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.

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

Love is the river of life in the world.

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.

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

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.

Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

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.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

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.

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.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

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.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.

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

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

I love you more than my own skin.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

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.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

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.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.

But love's a malady without a cure.

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

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

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.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

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.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Look your best - who said love is blind?

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Love is friendship set on fire.

Love is love's reward.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

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

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

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

The first duty of love is to listen.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it Whenever you're right, shut up.

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

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.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

This love is silent.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

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.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

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.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

All you need is love.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

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.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

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

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.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

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

Love is being stupid together.

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

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

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

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.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

There are never enough I Love You's.

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

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

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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?

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

Where love is, there God is also.

Where there is love there is life.

Who, being loved, is poor?

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

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.