Love Quotes

Israel zangwill - the only true love is love at first sight second...
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy - Going enough once you acknowledge his power.
Ovid
It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.
Horace Bushnell
I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Beaumarchis - drinking without being thirsty and making love at...
He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.
David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
John 1335 Bible
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.
William Shakespeare, Venus & Adonis
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine.
Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.
Henri De Regnie
Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
Robert Southey
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls grace from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call rigtheousness.
Victor Hugo
Nay, tempt me not to love again There was a time when love was sweet Dear Nea had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet But oh this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one Would I endure such pangs again.
Sir Thomas More
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.
William Shakespeare
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
W. H. Auden
Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.
Henri Frdric Amiel
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
Gabriel Oh come on Stan Not everything ends the way you think it should Besides, audiences love happy endings.
Swordfish
Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.
Woody Allen, "Without Feathers".
The lover says How beautiful you are, now that you love me.
Marlene Dietrich
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
Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world a prescription often given, too rarely taken.
Dr. Karl Menninge
Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.
Buddha
Love is so much better when you are not married.
Maria Callas
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
Alfred Adle
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
Jessamyn West
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Shakespeare
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Paul Sweeney
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
Javan
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.
Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - - In so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Thomas Mann
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
My mother loved children - - She would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho Marx
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
Dean Koontz