Love Quotes

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Euripides, Orestes (408 BC)

King Jaffe Joffer So you see, my son, there is a very fine line between love and nausea.

Coming to America

Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.

Marcel Ayme

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - - To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Henry Louis Mencken

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Ethel Watts Mumford

It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition - That is, learning to know something by its relation to something else.

Leonard Bernstein

The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.

John Randolph

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Lynda Barry

I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish.

Christopher S. Drew

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.

William Shakespeare, Venus & Adonis

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Vincent Van Gogh

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers

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

I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.

Lyndon B. Johnson

There is no wisdom without love.

N. Sri Ram

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

Publilius Syrus

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Thomas Fulle

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

H. L. Mencken

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

William Hazlitt

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

Henry David Thoreau, "Walden, " the Conclusion

There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.

George Sand

In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

Charles Dickens

There isnt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you arent really living without it.

Real Live Preache

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon, "Deteriorata".

Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.

Stephen

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

Willa Sibert Cathe

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

Harriet Van Horne

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - Two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

Pope John Paul II

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Johnny Depp

Love is like pi - Natural, irrational, and very important.

Lisa Hoffman

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Anais Nin

I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.

August Strindberg

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

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