Love Quotes

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The koward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword.

Oscar Wilde

My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

Emo Philips

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

We must love one another and die.

W. H. Auden, revised "Sept. 1, 1939".

I love to go to Washington - - If only to be near my money.

Bob Hope

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Alice Hoffman

You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman? s name and claim to love her.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, October 20, 2003

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia.

H. L. Mencken

Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.

Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.

Jonathan Swift

A cat does not want all the world to love her - - Only those she has chosen to love.

Helen Thomson

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

Andre Gide

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

John Donne

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003

To love what you do and feel that it matters - How could anything be more fun?

Katharine Graham

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.

Jane Austen

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

Agnes Repplie

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Baba Dioum

For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so... for Jack history was full of heroes.

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning.

Proverbs 7: 17 - 18

To love what you do and feel that it matters - How could anything be more fun.

Katharine Graham

We never get to love by hate, least of all by self - Hatred.

Basil W. Maturin

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

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

Norman Maclean

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

It should be a very happy marriage - - - They are both so much in love with him.

Irene Thomas

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

C. C. Colton

There are only two kinds of scholars those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartie

Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, October 20, 2003

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Elbert Hubbard

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Henry David Thoreau

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Russell Bake

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

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 15 - 04

Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.

Mary Manin Morrissey

The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers