Love Quotes

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

If Love be rough with you, be rough with Love, prick Love for pricking, and you beat Love down.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 2

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love: two minds without a single thought.

Philip Barry

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 15 - 04

Hate the sin and love the sinner.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

The Lord listens to the pryers of those who ask to be able to forget hatred, but is deaf to those who want to flee love.

Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

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

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Helen Hayes

Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.

Assyrian Prove

You God have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

Saint Augustine

Love is like war easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Henry Louis Mencken

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

Dr. Karl Bowman

Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.

Mark Twain

Lat., Now I know what love is.

Virgil

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, Chapter 77

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - - Not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

U Thant

It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - Sweet fundamental things such as love.

Laura Ingalls Wilde

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

I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.

Christian Longe

I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well - Meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.

Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re - Armament

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.

David Bissonette

Poets generally love cats - - Because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.

Marion Garretty

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

Aharon Appelfeld

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Woody Allen

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

Oliver Herford

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

George Eliot

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.

Will Durant

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

Eric Hoffe

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be.

Ted Rall

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

Benjamin Franklin