Love Quotes

My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

Bertrand Russell V. Delong

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.

Joyce Kilmer, "Trees" (poem), 1914

Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.

Joseph Alsop

Nature loves a burst of energy.

Boe Lightman

Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

William Blake

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Kahlil Gibran

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

H. L. Mencken

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.

Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

Og Mandino

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Harriet Van Horne

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Sydney Smith

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The love of nature is consolation against failure.

Berthe Morisot

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Tennessee Williams

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

Dorothy Parke

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

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

Helen Thomson

Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur - Coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.

Susanne Millen

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - But not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Quentin Crisp

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

Ernest Hello

The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.

Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa

Gabriel Oh come on Stan Not everything ends the way you think it should Besides, audiences love happy endings.

Swordfish

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Shakespeare

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

Smiley Blanton

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

Mother Teresa

Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.

W. T. Ussery

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Angelina Jolie

At the risk of sounding ridiculous, a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara

Purchase not friends by gifts when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Thomas Fulle