Love Quotes

It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.

Katharn Hepburn

Oh! love!... That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13

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

Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.

William Hazlitt

There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.

Homer, The Iliad

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

W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.

The Buddha

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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".

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.

James Baldwin

A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

Gray Davis

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To be loved, be lovable.

Ovid, Ars Amatoria

Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.

A. S. Neill, Summerhill

The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

I have loved many, the more and the few - I have loved many that I might love you.

Grace Fallow Norton

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Erica Jong

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - First to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Albert Camus

Lat., Now I know what love is.

Virgil

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.

Mignon McLaughlin

Love can never give too much, But those of us who love Can give in too much.

Alfred Stuart, Jr.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Benjamin Disraeli

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

Dagobert D. Runes

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 is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXVI

To be feared is much safer then to be loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Cat a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

Oliver Herford

You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman? s name and claim to love her.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, October 20, 2003

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Woody Allen

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts".

Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Roy Croft