Love Quotes

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.

Jonathan Swift

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

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

Groucho Marx

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

H. L. Mencken

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

Johann von Goethe

At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.

Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal

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

Horace Bushnell

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania.

Dorothy Parke

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Emily Dickinson

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Carl Jung

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

John Lennon

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

Samuel Butle

The love of democracy is that of equality.

Charles de Montesquieu

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

William Blake

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

Friedrich Nietzsche