Love Quotes

Greek prove - a heart that loves is always young....
Real live preache - there isnt much better in this life than finding...
The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe.
Dorothy Rothschild Parke
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Lao Tze
God, I don? t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
Buddha - you can search throughout the entire universe for...
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.
Pearl Buck, quoted in O Magazine, May 2003
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Kahlil Gibran
Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none.
Giuseppe Mazzini
For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer because it was he, because it was I.
W. Somerset Maugham
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh
Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.
Swedish Prove
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Theresa
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, Chapter 77
The love of democracy is that of equality.
Charles de Montesquieu
Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.
Madame Necke
Love is a hot shower where your skin never prunes.
John Maye
Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Swedenborg
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free.
Henry Miller, in a letter to Lawrence Durrell
He is a self - Made man, very much in love with his creator.
Benjamin Disraeli
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two classes of poets - The poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Lawrence George Durrell
Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.
National Lampoon, "Deteriorata".
Hate the sin and love the sinner.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.
August Strindberg
Never marry but for love but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
William Penn
The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me; Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.
Hartley Coleridge
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
Saint Francis of Assisi
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
W. H. Auden
God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
William Shakespeare