Love Quotes

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

William Shakespeare

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1

You can do no great things, just small things with great love.

Mother Teresa, Robin Williams

Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.

George Gordon Byron

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

Anais Nin

A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.

Elbert Hubbard

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

Psalm 1272 Bible

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Mae West

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.

Francois Fenelon

The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Persian Prove

What a grand thing, to be loved What a grander thing still, to love.

Victor Hugo

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of evil, it is pure human love.

N. P. Willis

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

French Prove

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 Aelius Aurelius

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.

William Shakespeare, Venus & Adonis

No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, .. not for glory, not for fame. For one person, .. in the dark.. where no one will ever know.. or see.

J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series) "Comes the Inquisitor".

I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honored for them.

Robert Bridges

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

George Bernard Shaw

A ragged colt may prove a good horse. And so may an untoward slovenly boy prove a decent and useful man.

James Kelly

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - - Not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

George Santayana

Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.

Anonymous

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Zora Neale Hurston

Close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be.

Ted Rall

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

Emile Chartie

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

Henry David Thoreau

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Kahlil Gibran

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

H. L. Mencken

We do not hate those we fight; we do not love those we defend.

Unknown, Tuskegee Airman motto during World War II

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Elbert Hubbard

We need not think alike to love alike.

Francis David

The mission before us as ambassadors is to assure peace among, as it were, the diplomatic corps of fellow ambassadors. Thus we are to walk in lowliness humility and meekness, which foster longsuffering and enable us to forbear one another in love.

Stephen Shobe