Love Quotes

When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

John Updike

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.

Ricard

On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all - - The soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Mark Twain

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Mahatma Gandhi

My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

Emo Philips

Motherhood All love begins and ends there.

Robert Browning

A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind.

Richard Dehmel

The best love affairs are those we never had.

Norman Lindsay

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Henry Ward Beeche

Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self - Love.

Lewis Lew Wallace

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

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

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

Mother Teresa

The love of democracy is that of equality.

Charles de Montesquieu

When the time comes for friends to part, love will be the bride, from heart to heart.

Unknown

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

John Dryden

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Marcel Proust

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

It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.

Henri De Regnie

No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.

H. L. Mencken

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.

Honore de Balzac

Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person.

Jason Hurst

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania.

Dorothy Parke

What a grand thing, to be loved What a grander thing still, to love.

Victor Hugo

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Giovanni Jacopo Casanova

The love of nature is consolation against failure.

Berthe Morisot

Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.

Anonymous

It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - No more - To a man, And love to a woman is life or death.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

To love is to commune with another person and to discover in him or her a divine spark.

Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I sat down and wept

The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

You can do no great things, just small things with great love.

Mother Teresa, Robin Williams

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

Janos Arnay

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

Confucius

We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free.

Henry Miller, in a letter to Lawrence Durrell

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

Woodrow Wyatt