Love Quotes

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

W. Somerset Maugham

Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love - - The love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Remember that the evil which is now in the world will only get more powerful, and that it is not evil which conquers evil, but only love.

The Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, Letter, 1917

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much.

Daphne Rose Kingma

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

George Bernard Shaw

Love is being stupid together.

Paul Valery

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

Sir Thomas More

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

Michael Palin

How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

Jane Austen, Emma

The very essence of love is uncertainty.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Ernest

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

Che

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

Judy Garland

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world a prescription often given, too rarely taken.

Dr. Karl Menninge

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others.

Miguel Cerbantes

In this world no one rules by love if you are but amiable, you are no hero to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

John Henry Newman

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

Miguel de Unamuno

I have made a great discovery. What I love belongs to me. Not the chairs and tables in my house, but the masterpieces of the world. It is only a question of loving them enough.

Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

Karl Shapiro

If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.

Unknown

Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief.

Ty King, Written for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode Passion, voice over by David Boreanaz

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - - Never.

Albert Camus

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

Alphonse Ka

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

George Eliot

Warning signs that lover is bored: 1. Passionless kisses 2. Frequent sighing 3. Moved, left no forwarding address.

Matt Groening

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

William James

Jerry We live in a cynical world. A cynical world. And we work in a business of tough competitors. I love you. You... complete me.

Jerry Maguire

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Thomas Fulle

To be feared is much safer then to be loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another.

H. L. Mencken

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

Saint Francis de Sales

He that loves the law will get his fill of it.

Scottish Prove