Love Quotes

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

Oscar Wilde

Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances.

Marc Maihueird

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.

James Baldwin

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong.

Sydney Harris

I dont think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preache

A ragged colt may prove a good horse. And so may an untoward slovenly boy prove a decent and useful man.

James Kelly

Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.

Hesiod

Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously; And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.

Anonymous, Greensleeves

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Mother Teresa

Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.

Lavina Christensen Fugal

I love and I hate. How can this be, you ask in vain. I know not, but I feel it to be so and am wracked with pain.

Gaius Valerius Catullus, Poem 85

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 1717 Bible

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Jacques Maritain

I love life because what more is there.

Anthony Hopkins

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

George Bernard Shaw

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

G. Stanley Hall

What force is more potent than love?

Igor Stravinsky

For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I love youNot only for what you areBut for what I amWhen I am with you.

Roy Croft

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

Otavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)

O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console To be understood as to understand To be loved as to love For it is in giving that we receive It is in pardoning that we are pardoned And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Saint Augustine

If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.

Ernest Hemingway

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

George Herbert

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

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.

Francois de Fenelon

Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Comte DeBussy - Rabutin

Love is my Sword, Goodness my Armor, And Humor my Shield.

Unknown, epitaph for a loved one

Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.

Woody Allen

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal

It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up.

W. Somerset Maugham, "Our Betters", 1923

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

Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

David Seabury

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

Henry Louis Mencken

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

There is no love lost between us.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval