Love Quotes

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

George Sand

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.

Mother Theresa

Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.

Henry Louis Mencken

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Sydney Harris

He drew a circle that shut me out - - Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.

Edwin Markham

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

Gloria Steinem

Love is being stupid together.

Paul Valery

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao - Tzu

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Charles Kingsley

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.

Pearl Buck, quoted in O Magazine, May 2003

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Erich Fromm

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

Charles Caleb Colton

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.

Reinhold Niebuh

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

Emile Chartie

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

M Scott Peck

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.

Woodrow Wyatt

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

George Herbert

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles De Gaulle

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

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

Lord Chesterfield

We must love one another and die.

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

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

G. Stanley Hall

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

George Bernard Shaw

A job is what we do for money work is what we do for love.

Marysarah Quinn

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

George Santayana

All the passions make us commit faults love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

La Rochefoucauld

The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat.

S. S. Biddle

Whom the gods love dies young.

Menander, The Double Deceive

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements.

Clive Staples Lewis

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

Anne Bradstreet

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Jules Renard

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

William Shakespeare

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

Louise Beal

Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.

Luther Standing Bea