Love Quotes

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.

Judith Viorst

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.

William Shakespeare

My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

Emo Philips

My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

George Burns

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

Better to have loved and lost a short person than never to have loved a tall.

David Chambless

People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.

Graham Greene, A Burnt - Out Case

The pleasure of love is in the loving and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

La Rochefoucauld

Purchase not friends by gifts when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Thomas Fulle

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Anita Brookne

The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self - Controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

1 Peter 47 - 8 Bible

Motherhood All love begins and ends there.

Robert Browning

None love the messenger who brings bad news.

Sophocles

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

William Shakespeare

The love of nature is consolation against failure.

Berthe Morisot

Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.

Victor Hugo

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mother Theresa

If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.

John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

Dagobert D. Runes

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

Martin Luthe

Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.

Erich Fromm

He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.

Confucius

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

It should be a very happy marriage - - - They are both so much in love with him.

Irene Thomas

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Iris Murdoch

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

Luigi Pirandello

God is Love - - I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is.

Samuel Butle

Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...

Bell Hooks

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

Charles A. Stoddard

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) act 1

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

George Bernard Shaw

The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly.

Paul McCartney, The Observer (1987)

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

Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars.

Louis Untermeye