Love Quotes

A day out - Of - Doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - - That would be rest.

Roosevelt, Eleano

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

John Dryden

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Charles De Gaulle

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Reading and Writing".

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

Pierre Corneille

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Francois de La Rochefoucald

I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying...... It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

Mother Theresa

There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Stephen Stills

What is love? As far as I can tell, is is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven.

William Wharton

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Erich Fromm

If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.

Art Costa

If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome K. Jerome

Love conquers all things let us too surrender to Love.

Virgil

We are what we love, not what loves us.

Charlie Kaufman, Adaptation

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Mark Twain

If you wished to be loved, love.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Dean Koontz

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

James Baldwin

None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton

There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.

Coco Chanel

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.

Hadewijch of Antwerp

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Charles Caleb Colton

Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.

Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose: stanza 1

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

George Santayana

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

Music is Love in search of a word.

Sidney Lanie

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

These two truths are the same in weight and importance. Accept and love WHO and WHERE you are now, and all good things shall find you there.

Unknown

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Francis Bacon

Love seeks one thing only the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Thomas Merton

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

Robert Burton

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - - Only with what you are expecting to give - - which is everything.

Katharine Hepburn