Love Quotes

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

Thomas Fulle

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

H. L. Mencken

They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?

Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Kahlil Gibran

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

Saint Francis de Sales

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

Alfred A. Montapert

You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.

Audrey Hepburn

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

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - - Can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.

Barbara She

Love conquers all things let us too surrender to Love.

Virgil

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

Anne Bradstreet

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Francis Bacon

We need not think alike to love alike.

Francis David

To surpress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress... Now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

Wendell Willkie

Whoso loves, believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005

Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief.

Ty King, Written for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode Passion, voice over by David Boreanaz

The love of money is the root of all virtue.

George Bernard Shaw

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Walter Benjamin

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Swedenborg

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.

William Shakespeare

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles

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

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.

John Ray

Love cures people - - Both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Dr. Karl Menninge

Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.

John Donne

I love and I hate. How can this be, you ask in vain. I know not, but I feel it to be so and am wracked with pain.

Gaius Valerius Catullus, Poem 85

Love is the essence of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom He knows himself but does not display himself He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

Lao Tzu

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

Dr. Karl Bowman

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

English Prove

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But for those who love Time is not.

Henry Van Dyke

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas rest your spirit in her solitary places.

Ernest Dimnet

Faith, Hope, and Love remanined. And the greatest of these is Love.

1 Corinthians 13: 13, 1 Corinthians 13: 13

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Heinrich Heine