Love Quotes

Never marry but for love but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.

Virgil, Eclogues

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

Dean Koontz

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.

George Santayana

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Thomas Edward Bodett

Every child deserves a home and love. Period.

Dave Thomas

The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self - Controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

1 Peter 47 - 8 Bible

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

Barbara DeAngelis

Motherhood All love begins and ends there.

Robert Browning

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Umberto Eco

Hate the sin and love the sinner.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.

Bernard Iddings Bell

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self - Love might impair your judgment.

Seneca

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

William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3

Just because you love someone doesnt mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well - Meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.

Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re - Armament

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors.... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Just because you love someone doesn? t mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

Ronald David Laing

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

H. L. Mencken

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

Eric Hoffe

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1898

Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love.

Charles Manson

To surpress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress... Now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

Wendell Willkie

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters".

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Daniel Webste

To love what you do and feel that it matters - How could anything be more fun?

Katharine Graham

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Iris Murdoch

Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.

Fulton J. Sheen

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

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

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Emily Dickinson

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.

Joyce Kilme

Love is being stupid together.

Paul Valery

She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me Oh then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.

Hartley Coleridge

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Henry Louis Mencken