Love Quotes

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Reading and Writing".

I love America. You always hurt the one you love.

David Frye impersonating Nixon

Love not what you are, but what you may become.

Miguel de Cervantes

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Nick Richardson

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Roy Croft

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Sir Thomas More

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

Dorothy Parke

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.

Jonathan Swift

Love is the life of humanity.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Love and Wisdom" #1

Just because you love someone doesn? t mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

G. K. Chesterton

All dope can do for you is kill you the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

Billie Holiday

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King Jr., Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964

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

If Love be rough with you, be rough with Love, prick Love for pricking, and you beat Love down.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 2

He that loves the law will get his fill of it.

Scottish Prove

Oh! love!... That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them: The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

Dr. Karl Bowman

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

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

Kahlil Gibran

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Nancy Mitford

She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me Oh then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.

Hartley Coleridge

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut - Throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

Anthony Perkins

She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.

Olga Brouman

Hell, Madame, is to love no longer.

Georges Bernanos

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

Horace, Odes

For one human being to love another human being That is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.

Samuel Adams

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Herman Hesse

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Javan

If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.

Art Costa