Love Quotes

Love is not blind - It sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honored for them.

Robert Bridges

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from anothe.

H. L. Mencken

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

M. Hirschfield

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

John Updike

Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work.

David B. Haight

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.

Karl von Bonstetten

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 15 - 04

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The koward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword.

Oscar Wilde

A love that can last forever takes but a second to come about.

Cuban Prove

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

Oliver Herford

He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.

Confucius

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

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Reading and Writing".

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

Charles Schwa

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

Cathy Guisewite

I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

John Keats

A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

We need not think alike to love alike.

Francis David

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

Hermann Hesse

Love builds bridges where there are none.

R. H. Delaney

Whoso loves, believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

To love for the sake of being loved is human, But to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

Pierre Corneille

Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, July 7, 2003

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Erich Fromm

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Joseph Conrad

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

Robert Burton

I dont want to be cross, Love cannot be forced.

Edith Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

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

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - The rest will be given.

Mother Theresa

Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

Mark Twain

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

Lucille Ball

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Rmy de Gourmont

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Albert Camus

Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke