Love Quotes

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime. -W. H. Auden

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

It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music. -Honore De Balzac

Love: Two minds without a single thought. -Philip Barry

Of all earthly music, that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart. -Henry Ward Beecher

Love:A temporary insanity curable by marriage. -Ambrose Bierce

Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw. -Josh Billings

Love and friendship exclude each other. -Jean De La Bruyere

To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it. -Samuel Butler

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. -Lord Byron

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

Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all. -G.K. Chesterton

We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy. -Cicero

All men, even the most surly, are influenced by affection. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Greater is he who acts from love than he who acts from fear. -Simeon Ben Eleazar

Take spring when it comes, and rejoice.  Take happiness when it comes, and rejoice. Take love when it comes, and rejoice. -Carl Ewald

Every time we hold our tongues instead of returning the sharp retort, show patience with another’s faults, show a little more love and kindness, we are helping to stock-pile more of these peace-bringing qualities in the world instead of armaments for war. -Constance Foster

In love there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek. -French Proverb

And think not you can guide the course of love.  For love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course. -Kahlil Gibran

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.  -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Into the world of fears and hatreds we need to pour a double portion of the spirit of confidence in the power of love.  Not peace at any price, but love at all cost.  All our problems today resolve themselves into the problem of learning to live together. -Canon Peter Green

The more you love, the more you can love – and the more intensely you love.  Nor is there any limit on how many you can love.  If a person had time enough, he could love all that majority who are decent and just. -Robert A. Heinlein

Love is what’s left of a relationship after all the selfishness has been removed. -Cullen Hightower

We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us.  Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest. -Eric Hoffer

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom.  Life is not a holiday but an education.  One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love. -Barbara Jordan

No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over. -Soren Kierkegaard

Love at first sight is easy to understand.  It’s when two people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes a miracle. -Sam Levenson

The bravest are the tenderest.  The loving are the daring.  -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One man all by himself is nothing.  Two people who belong together make a world. -Hans Margolius

Love is what happens to a man and a woman who don’t know each other. -Somerset Maugham

There is no way under the sun of making a man worthy of love, except of loving him. -Thomas Merton

To live without loving is not really to live. -Moliere

The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms.  Everything is more beautiful when they have passed. -Suzanne Necker

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