Love Quotes

A ragged colt may prove a good horse. And so may an untoward slovenly boy prove a decent and useful man.
James Kelly
Hesiod - invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but...
The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Addison mizne - misery loves company, but company does not...
Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.
George Santayana
While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones.
Rabindranath Tagore
Kahlil gibran - love is know the pain of too much tenderness....
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Mae West
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke
It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.
Norman Maclean
He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.
Confucius
Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert Anson Heinlein
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
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - But not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Quentin Crisp
Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.
Houssaye
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 feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
Thomas a Kempis
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.
Sir Arthur Helps
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
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
Fall not in love, therefore it will stick to your face.
National Lampoon
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleepAnd miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.
William Wordsworth
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
Paul Eldridge
Perfect love is rare indeed - For to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
Leo Buscaglia
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Willa Cathe
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy.
Saint Francis of Assisi
A good front is half the battle in love or war.
Kim Hubbard
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
Anais Nin
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
Japanese Prove
Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.
Marge Piercy
Faith, Hope, and Love remanined. And the greatest of these is Love.
1 Corinthians 13: 13, 1 Corinthians 13: 13
Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine.
Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
Anne Bradstreet
What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls grace from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call rigtheousness.
Victor Hugo
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - Control. Against such things, there is no law.
The Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus), The Bible - Galations 5: 22 - 23 NIV
Measure your life in love.
Jonathan Larson, From musical/rock opera: Rent