1429 Quotes about Love Page 1

1429 Quotes about Love Page 1

1400 Love quotes by famous and unknown sources...

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. - KJZ

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. - Friedrich Nietzsche

A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest. - Jeff Cox

A poem is the realization of love.... - Rene Char

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. - Robert Frost

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility. - John Keats

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao Tzu

A self-centered man admitted: ?Sure, I know that the Bible says to love our neighbors as ourselves. But frankly, I don't believe that my neighbors can stand all that affection.? - unknown

A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A successful home is based on the love and helpfulness of children just as it is based on loving parents handling their responsibilities. ? Be eager to forgive when problems arise at home. Help with your younger brothers and sisters when needed. You are their hero. - Hugh W. Pinnock

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills. - George Eliot

A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth's that love is the ultimate and thehighest goal to which man can aspire. - Viktor E. Frankl

A true chocolate lover finds ways to accommodate his passion and makeit work with his lifestyle. One key, not just to keeping weight down and staying guilt-free, but also to keeping taste buds sharp (essentialfor the professionals who evaluate new products as well as judge recipes), Is being discriminating. - Julie Davis

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. - Stendhal

A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium. - Publilius Syrus

A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love. - Mae West

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. - Honore de Balzac

A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like a child who sings at night when he is afraid. - unknown

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. - Elizabeth Ashley

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. - William Shakespeare

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. - Comte de Bussy-Rabutin

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. - Benjamin Franklin

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 Aurelius

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. - Marcus Aurelius

Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference. - Sir Walter Scott

After observing the loved and the unloved, we found the loved ones rarely tried to manipulate others. - W. W. Broadbent, MD, PhD

After the verb To Love, To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world! - Bertha Freifrau Von Suttner

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. - Jeanne Moreau

Ah me! why may not love and life be one? - Henry Timrod

Ah! what is love! It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as aking, And sweeter too; For kings have cares that wait upon a crown,And cares can make the sweetest love to frown. - Robert Greene

Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee, It passed into thy lifelong regency. - Gilbert Parker

Ah, some love Paris, And some Purdue. But love is an archer with a low I.Q. A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity. So I?m in love with New York City. - unknown

All for love and nothing for reward. - Edmund Spenser

All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them. - Oliver Goldsmith

All love at first, like generous wine, Ferments and frets until tis fine; But when ?tis settled on the lee, And from th? impurer matter free, Becomes the richer still the older, And proves the pleasanter the colder. - Samuel Butler

All love is lost but upon God alone. - William Dunbar

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. - Julie Andrews

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

All lovers young, all lovers must Consign to thee and come to dust... - William Shakespeare

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. - Dalai Lama

All mankind love a lover. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is insome shape or other to tell the story of his love?to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love. - Henry David Thoreau

All the intellectual and moral inequalities of the sexes are neutralized by the mutual recognition of the need for love. - Elizabeth Rapaport

All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust. - Emanuel Swedenborg

All you need is love. - John Lennon

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. - Leo Tolstoy

Allis love, yet all?s law. - Robert Browning

Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur - Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time - unknown -

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. - George S. Patton

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. - Wystan Hugh Auden

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people. - Leo Tolstoy

And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. - Kahlil Gibran

And God said love me, love them, and love it, and don't forget to love yourself. - Fynn

And I would have, now love is over, An end to all, an end: I cannot, having been your lover Stoop to become your friend! - Arthur Symons

And if I lose thy love, I lose my all. - Alexander Pope - - - - -

And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes. - William Butler Yeats

And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old. - Alfred, Lord TENNYSON

And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, Was beat with fist instead of a stick. - Samuel Butler

And when I feigned an angry look, Alas, I loved you best. - John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire and Normanby

And you must love him, ere to you, He will seem worthy of your love. - William Wordsworth

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. - Anais Nin

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. - Author Unknown

Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says peacemakers. He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life. - Jim Wall

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. - Dr. George Washington Carver

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. - Ambrose Bierce

Are we not all members of the same Body and partakers of the same Spirit and heirs of the same blessed hope of eternal life? . . . Why dowe not, as becomes brethren, dwell together in unity, but are so apt toquarrel and break out into heats, to crumble into sects and parties, todivide and separate from one another upon every trifling occasion? Give me leave . . . in the name of our dear Lord . . . to recommend to you this new commandment of his, that ye love one another. Which is almost a new commandment still, and hardly the worse for wearing, so seldom is it put on, and so little hath it been practiced among Christians. - John Tillotson

Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. - Pablo Picasso

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love. - Marsilio Ficino

As lines, so loves oblique, may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet. - Andrew Marvell

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. - John Adams

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. - Helen Keller

As soon as you can not keep anything from a woman, you love her. - Paul Geraldy

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. - William Shakespeare

As true a lover As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow. - William Shakespeare

At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife?s hatred, they are borne each of them apart. - Empedocles

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. - Jean de La Bruy?re

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. - Plato

Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself,for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have theright attitude toward others. - Wilfred A. Peterson

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another - KJV

Be of love a little more careful than of anything. - e. e. cummings

Beauty lies within a person that is willing to do anything for their love, love is beauty within the heart. - Janel

Because of a great love, one is courageous. - Lao Tzu

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him. - Michael Jackson

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. - Rita Rudner

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him. - Marilyn Monroe

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved. - George Crabbe

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. - Oscar Wilde

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eye. - Harry Emerson Fosdick, D.D.

Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains call on us? Must go thy motions lovers' seasons run? - John Donne

But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For hewho color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes. - John Donne

But how can he expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take noheed at all? - William Wordsworth

But isn't hate just scorned love? - unknown

But love is many things, none of them logical. - William Goldman

But love's a malady without a cure. - John Dryden

But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than thesun which was beginning to rise. - Viktor E. Frankl

But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have the justice to be honoured in his grave. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Mosesthe servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. - Thomas Morell

But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love forever. - Robert Burns

By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever. - Lao Tse, or Tsu, or Tze, or Tzu, or Tsze

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger. - Stella Benson

Calvin: Medically speaking:. That's love?!?..... Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!! - William B.?Bill? Watterson II

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? - Richard Bach

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? - Confucius

Candle light, moon light, star light, The brightest glow is from love light. - Grey Livingston

Change everything except your loves. - Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it. - unknown

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. - Confucius

Christlike love is a gift of the Spirit. - Robert J. Whetten

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silverhooks. - John Donne

Come out of the circle of time, and into the circle of love. - Mevlana Jelalu'ddin Rumi

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. - Craig Claiborne

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. - Harriet Van Horne

Could we forbear dispute and practise love, We should agree as angels do above. - Edmund Waller

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter. - Anacreon

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight. - William Shakespeare

Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. - Leo F. Buscaglia

Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow. - Edward Young

Deliver me from your cold, phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands. - Abigail Smith Adams

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. - Walt Disney

Disturbed is the condition of my pool. The mouth of my lover is a rosebud. Her breast is a perfume. Her arm is a bough Which offers adelusive seat. Her forehead is a snare of meryu wood. - unknown

Do all things with love. - Og Mandino

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. - Henry David Thoreau

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed upuntil your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speakapproving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled by them. - Henry Ward Beecher

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. - Anais Nin

Do what thou lovest; paint or sing or carve. Do what thou lovest, though the body starve! Who works for glory oft may miss the goal. Who works for money merely starves the soul; Work for the work?s sake, then, and, it may be, These other things?ll be added unto thee. - unknown

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. - Henry David Thoreau

Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen? - Saint Teresa of Avila

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl? - William Blake

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. - Wayne Dyer

Don't make anyone ask for love. - Mary Ellen Edmunds

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin

Doubt that the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth shine - Doubt that truth be a liar But never doubt that I love. - William Shakespeare

Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree. - William Butler Yeats

Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur - Publilius Syrus

Even at midnight the sun was still bright, All because you kissed me goodnight! ~Author Unknown

Even memory is not necesary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. - Thornton Niven Wilder

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. - Mother Teresa

Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game. - Michael Jordan

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases. - Francois Sagan

Every love is the love before In a duller dress. - Dorothy Parker

Every lover is a soldier and has his camp in Cupid. ?Militat omnis amans et habet sua castra Cupido - Publius Ovidius Naso Ovid

Everyday passing by, i just cant get you out of my mind. Is this just a joke? Or maybe it's love. - Sabrina

Everyday we try to define the word love. Some say, "love is a feeling you feel after a feeling you've never felt before". How corny, you might say? But what is love? A question that still lingers in the air. - Renae

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! - Anne Frank

Everything is clearer when you're in love. - John Lennon

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love. - Mel Brooks

Faith is the power. Love is the motive. Obedience is the price. The Spirit is the key. And Christ is the reason. - Ed Pinegar

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense. - Helen Rowland

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. - Jean Iris Murdoch

Familiar acts are beautiful through love. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. - Andy Warhol

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. - Bill Cosby

Faults are thick where love is thin. - Unknown

Fear is the heart of love, if you don't fear, you aren't truly in love. - April

Find someone to love . . . and, oh, someone to love you. - Sacha Guitry

Find someone to love... and, oh, someone to love you. - Sacha Guitry

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. - George Bernard Shaw

Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplainable peace. - Anne Shaw

For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . . until you get to the point and know that you really are living a love story. - Anouk Aimee

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. - Sir Francis Bacon

For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar. - Sir Walter Scott

For God sake hold your tongue, and let me love. - John Donne

For he is but a bastard to the time that doth not smack of observation. - William Shakespeare

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. - Judy Garland

For love is immortality. - Emily Dickinson

For Love will still be lord of all. - Sir Walter Scott

For money has a power above The stars and fate, to manage love. - Samuel Butler

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. - Rainer Maria Rilke

For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits ? islands surroundedand interrupted by the sea, continuously visited and abandoned by the tides. One must accept the serenity of the winged life, of ebb and flow, of intermittency. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. - Carl Sagan

For the first time in my life, I was able to understand the words, "The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory." - Viktor E. Frankl

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. - Aristotle

For you see, each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. - Rosemonde Gerard

Fortune and love favor the brave. - Ovid

Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly. - Helen Adams Keller

France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door. - Barbara Cartland

Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall. - John Milton

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. - Jim Morrison

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves." - Oliver Goldsmith

Friendship is Love without his wings! - Lord Byron

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. - Charles Caleb Colton

From the first time you left me..., that's the time I knew I'd give everything just for a minute of your love. - Cray

Get beyond love and grief; exist for the good of man. - Ha Gakure

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. - Zsa Zsa Gabor

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. - John Ruskin

Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,? Nothing refuse. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give me more love or more disdain; The torrid or the frozen zone: Bring equal ease unto my pain; The temperate affords me none. - Thomas Carew

GIVING Giving isn't giving Unless the gift is tied With ribbon-bows of gladness; What good the gift inside (Though it be made of silver) What good the stars above If hearts know naught of laughter, If hearts are void of love? - June Brown Harris

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge. - Stephen Levine

Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. - Edmund Waller

God is love, but get it in writing. - Gypsy Rose Lee

God is Love, I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is. - Samuel Butler, the younger

God made all the creatures, and gave them our love and our fear, - To give sign we and they are his children, one family here. - 

God must love the common man, he made so many of them. -

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, "I love you." - 

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. - 

Graze on my lips; and if these hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie. - 

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something. - 

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule. - 

Hatred is blind, as well as love. - 

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. - 

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. - 

Have you seen a room from which faith has gone?Like a marriage from which love has gone.... And patience, patience everywhere likea fog. - 

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. - 

He drew a circle that shut me out - Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win; We drew a circle that took him in! - 

He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited. -

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. - 

He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands. -

He paints the lily of the field, Perfumes each lily bell. If he so loves the little flowers, I know he loves me well. - 

He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small. - 

He that is jealous is not in love. - 

He that will have a cake out of wheat must tarry the grinding. - 

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. - 

He who loves best his fellow-man Is loving God the holiest way he can. - 

He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning. - 

He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her. - 

He would make a lovely corpse. - 

Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned... - 

Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -

Help thy brother's boat across, and lo! Thine own has reached the shore. - 

Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star. - 

Her gentle limbs did she undress, And lay down in her loveliness. - 

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

Home at last. Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul may keep the path, but will not reach the goal; while he who walks in love may wonder far, yet God will bring him where the blessed are. - 

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. - 

How does one measure time? No, not in day, months, or years. It is measured by the most precious of all things: Love. Without which all beings and things whether brave and/or beautiful would perish. - 

How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes arefew! -

How many loved your moments of glad grace And loved your beauty withlove false or true But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you And loved the sorrows of your changing face. - William Butler Yeats

How silver sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears! - William Shakespeare

How vast a memory has Love! 

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. -