Love Quotes

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33 - Percent plausible.

Will Rogers

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

Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

Mark Twain

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.

Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Robert J. Ringe

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

Horace, Odes

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

Norman Maclean

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

William Sloane Coffin, http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/William_Sloane_Coffin

God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty.

William Shakespeare

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

Dean Koontz

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

Lily Tomlin

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

Nancy Spain

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Helen Hayes

Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.

Zsa Zsa Gabo

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Douglas Adams

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

I dont want to be cross, Love cannot be forced.

Edith Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

There is no love lost between us.

Miguel de Cervantes

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

Nelson Rockefelle

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

Francois Sagan

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Lawrence George Durrell

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - Two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

Pope John Paul II

We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free.

Henry Miller, in a letter to Lawrence Durrell

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

H. L. Mencken

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

Horace Bushnell

Where you find true friendship, You find true love.

Unknown

Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.

Madame Necke

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

George Eliot

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

Pierre Corneille

I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.

Janina Atkins

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

Louis Auchincloss