Love Quotes

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 15 - 04
La bruyere - we perceive when love begins and when it declines...
Nay, tempt me not to love again There was a time when love was sweet Dear Nea had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet But oh this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one Would I endure such pangs again.
Sir Thomas More
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
Oscar Wilde
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
W. Somerset Maugham
Tori amos - our generation has an incredible amount of...
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
William Wordsworth
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
Mother theresa - love is a fruit in season at all times, and...
Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham
Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1898
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
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
Plato
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.
Victor Frankl
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.
Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Alexandre Dumas
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Comte DeBussy - Rabutin
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania.
Dorothy Parke
I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
Judy Garland
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.
Amy Vanderbilt
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self - Denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
Jackie Mason
Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine.
Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
Charles Fox
The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - These are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it.
Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common - Sense.
Helen Rowland
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
Saint Augustine
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to love, mad to talk, mad to be saved the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
Jack Kerouac
The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.
The Buddha
The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.
Roger Rosenblatt
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
Edward R. Murrow
To love oneself is the beginning of a life - Long romance.
Oscar Wilde
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
George Bernard Shaw
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Emily Dickinson
I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.
August Strindberg
It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.
Jessamyn West
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Andre Maurois