Love Quotes

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

Smiley Blanton

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

Amanda Cross

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize how much you love them.

Agatha Christie

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

M. Hirschfield

Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.

John Donne

When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Just because you love someone doesn? t mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004

Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less.

Unknown

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Luigi Pirandello

I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.

Lyndon B. Johnson

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.

Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

John Donne

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Mao Zedong

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

Mignon McLaughlin

A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Saint Basil

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

Nora Roberts

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Sir Walter Scott

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

Norman Maclean

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - Two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

Pope John Paul II

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Roosevelt, Eleano

Give all to love obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Giovanni Jacopo Casanova

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap - On - A - Rope.

Bill Cosby

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer, The Odyssey

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

Lucille Ball

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Erich Fromm

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

Nancy Spain

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

Bette Davis

If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.

Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewate

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.

Reinhold Niebuh

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

George Eliot

I love children - Especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Nancy Mitford

Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

C. S. Lewis, First things First