Love Quotes

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

H. L. Mencken

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

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - These are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it.

Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Bertrand Russell

Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine.

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

My mother loved children - She would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

If you love someone, put their name in a circle because hearts can be broken, but circles never end.

Unknown

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

Henry Ward Beeche

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Henry David Thoreau, Wednesday, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.

Quentin Crisp

Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.

Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose: stanza 1

There is no wisdom without love.

N. Sri Ram

As pity moved into that hole inside her, she discovered how distant pity was from hate, how very far it was from love.

Robert Cormier, We All Fall Down

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

Aharon Appelfeld

To love and win is the best thing, to love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Matt Groening

Measure your life in love.

Jonathan Larson, From musical/rock opera: Rent

I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Farami

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.

George W. Bush

Love goes out the door when money comes innuendo.

Groucho Marx, "Duck Soup" 1934

The absence of love is the most abject pain.

Herr Lipp

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

John Donne

Love conquers all things let us too surrender to Love.

Virgil

Do all things with love.

Og Mandino

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

Hamilton Wright Mabi

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

John Perry Barlow

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

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

William James

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

Paul Sweeney

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

Italian Prove

When you differ with a man, show him, by your looks, by your bearing and by everything that you do or say, that you love him.

Senator Paul Douglas

None love the messenger who brings bad news.

Sophocles

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.

William Lyon Phelps

On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.

Isha McKenzie - Mavinga

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