Love Quotes

Francis quarles - if thou desire the love of god and man, be...
Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
Sir Thomas More
In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
Saul Bellow
My mother loved children - She would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho Marx
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
Orson Scott Card
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
G. Stanley Hall
Louis auchincloss - only little boys and old men sneer at love....
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
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
Mother Theresa
It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.
Sir Arthur Helps
Love truth, and pardon error.
Voltaire
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.
Joyce Kilmer, "Trees" (poem), 1914
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Joe Bob Briggs
Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
Matt Groening
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
La Rochefoucauld
Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.
Fulton J. Sheen
Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.
W. L. George
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
John Henry Newman
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
Harold Loukes
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others.
Miguel Cerbantes
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Theresa
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
Joseph Conrad
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Mignon McLaughlin
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.
Og Mandino
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Saint Teresa of Avila
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
Emile Chartie
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
Sir Winston Churchill
What is love? As far as I can tell, is is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven.
William Wharton
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
George Orwell, 1984
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
Mother Teresa
Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine.
Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself - - Becoming One with its object Producing Unity of Being.
Hakim Jami
Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.
Amy Vanderbilt