Love Quotes

Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love - - The love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

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.

Tom Bodett

The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly.

Paul McCartney, The Observer (1987)

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 10 - 30 - 03

Whoso loves, believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.

Kahlil Gibran

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.

Robert Anthony

The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.

Donald G. Smith

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.

James Baldwin

At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.

Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal

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

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Haniel Long

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

Groucho Marx

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

David Grayson

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Edgar Z. Friedenberg

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

M Scott Peck

The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat.

S. S. Biddle

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Michael Bridge

A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.

Thomas Merton

Was she so loved because her eyes were so beautiful, or were her eyes so beautiful because she was so loved.

Anzia Yenerska

When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.

Jerome K. Jerome

It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butle

Nature loves a burst of energy.

Boe Lightman

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Elbert Hubbard

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

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

H. L. Mencken

To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.

Robert E. Lee, Conversation with Gen. Longstreet

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann von Goethe

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu

lovers alone wear sunlight.

E. e. cummings

While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.

Baghdad Betty, Iraqi radio announcer, to gulf war troops

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mother Theresa