Love Quotes

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

Lord Chesterfield

He that loves the law will get his fill of it.

Scottish Prove

It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.

Marcel Proust

Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

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

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much.

Daphne Rose Kingma

Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.

Charles Fox

Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.

W. T. Ussery

My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way.

Hilary Duff

What force is more potent than love?

Igor Stravinsky

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Bertrand Russell, Autobiography

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King Jr., Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Henry David Thoreau, Wednesday, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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)

Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is the same for all.

Virgil

In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.

Paul McCartney

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Zora Neale Hurston

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

La Rochefoucauld

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

Leo Tolstoy

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D. H. Lawrence

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

Israel Zangwill

Having a place to go - Is a home. Having someone to love - Is a family. Having both - Is a blessing.

Donna Hedges

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.

Johann von Goethe

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - But not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.

Helen Steiner Rice

For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

William Blake

Love builds bridges where there are none.

R. H. Delaney

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Kahlil Gibran

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004

The best of the houses is the house where an orphan gets love and kindness.

Prophet Mohammed

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Anna Louise Strong