Love Quotes

Abraham lincoln - my father taught me to work; he did not teach me...
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
Oscar Wilde
There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Johann von Goethe
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide
A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.
Author Unknown
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize how much you love them.
Agatha Christie
Nancy spain - there are people whom one loves immediately and...
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
Ethel Watts Mumford
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Kahlil Gibran
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
Sir Winston Churchill
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy.
Saint Francis of Assisi, "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)
The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
W. H. Murray
I don? t think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 20, 2003
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.
Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990
Immature love says, I love you because I need you, mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Winston Churchill
Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.
National Lampoon, "Deteriorata".
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
George Eliot
I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Friendship is love with understanding.
Author Unknown
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Henry David Thoreau, Wednesday, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
The Knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
Blaise Pascal
To be loved, be lovable.
Ovid, Ars Amatoria
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Dorothy Rothschild Parke
Oh! love!... That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13
In love there are things - - - Bodies and words.
Joyce Carol Oates
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Music is Love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanie
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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.
W. H. Auden
To love someone is to identify with them.
Aristotle
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli
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
King Jaffe Joffer So you see, my son, there is a very fine line between love and nausea.
Coming to America
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
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
Carmichael
Lat Love me faithfullySee how I am faithfulWith all my heartAnd all my soulI am with youThough I am far away.
Anon.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
Mother Teresa