Love Quotes

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

Voltaire

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

Life Is A Challenge - Meet It Life Is A Song - Sing It Life Is A Dream - Realize It Life Is A Game - Play It Life Is Love - Enjoy It.

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.

Hesiod

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

J. Krishnamurti

Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another.

H. L. Mencken

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Angelina Jolie

Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.

Lord Bertrand Russell

Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love - - The love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Umberto Eco

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.

Luther Standing Bea

Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.

Thomas a Kempis

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon, "Deteriorata".

We like someone because. We love someone although.

Henri De Montherlant

Love came down at Christmas Love all lovely, love divine Love was born at Christmas, Stars and angels gave the sign.

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.

George Gordon Byron

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Mahatma Gandhi

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

Karl Shapiro

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.

Alice Thomas Ellis

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

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Logan Pearsall Smith

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.

Virgil

Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

W. H. Auden

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.

Francois de Fenelon

I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

Charles Lindbergh, Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper (letter to the editor)

There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.

George Sand

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.

Father Andrew SDC

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

George Santayana

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 2

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