Love Quotes

None love the messenger who brings bad news.

Sophocles

The best love affairs are those we never had.

Norman Lindsay

Because he once wrote, We must love one another or die, he can command me to follow him.

E. M. Forste

O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console To be understood as to understand To be loved as to love For it is in giving that we receive It is in pardoning that we are pardoned And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Saint Augustine

What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.

Robert Herrick

There will always be one who loves, and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Anais Nin

Love is like war easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Henry Louis Mencken

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic - Latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.

Johann von Goethe

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

Quentin Crisp

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

John Lennon

The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.

William Lyon Phelps

The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich, O Magazine, February 2004

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Dan Quayle

The very essence of love is uncertainty.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Ernest

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Lucille Ball

The best of the houses is the house where an orphan gets love and kindness.

Prophet Mohammed

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Thomas Fulle

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

Abraham Lincoln

Excellent wretch Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch, O Magazine, February 2004

He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

God, I don? t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

George Bernard Shaw

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.

Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".

I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?

William Shakespeare, Richard III, V. iii

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us.

Andrew Schneide

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.

George T. Hewitt

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

William Butler Yeats

I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is the same for all.

Virgil

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Cicero

A best friend it like a four leaf clover - Hard to find, and lucky to have.

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