Love Quotes

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

La Bruyere

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

Thomas Fulle

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Joseph Addison

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

Stephen Stills

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)

The best proof of love is trust.

Joyce Brothers

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Pietro Aretino

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

John Dryden

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

Mother Theresa

He is a self - Made man, very much in love with his creator.

Benjamin Disraeli

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - - Can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.

Barbara She

He who falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.

Ben Franklin

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

M Scott Peck

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Proverbs 1717 Bible

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

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

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.

Addison Mizne

Love is a flame that burns in heaven, And whose soft reflections radiate to us. Two worlds are opened, two lives given to it. It is by love tht we double our being It is by love that we approach God.

Aimee Martin

My mother loved children - - She would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.

Francois Fenelon

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.

Gore Vidal

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Shakespeare

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

David Chambless

Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Erica Jong

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

Buddha

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

Just because you love someone doesnt mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXVI

There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.

Homer, The Iliad

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.

Johnson

If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

Author Unknown

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

John Andrew Holmes

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Charles Kingsley

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Sir Walter Scott