Love Quotes

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
Harold Loukes
Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world a prescription often given, too rarely taken.
Dr. Karl Menninge
1 corinthians 13: 13, 1 corinthians 13: 13 - faith, hope, and love remanined. and the greatest...
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
John Dryden
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde
Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.
W. L. George
In love of home, the love of country has its rise.
Charles Dickens
Mark twain - on his deathbed death, the only immortal who...
It is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity.
Andy & Larry Wachowski, Merovingian - The Matrix Revolutions
Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back.
Thomas a Kempis
The pleasure of love is in loving.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Menander, the double deceive - whom the gods love dies young....
A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.
Gray Davis
Every child deserves a home and love. Period.
Dave Thomas
Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert Anson Heinlein
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
A good front is half the battle in love or war.
Kim Hubbard
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
Robertson Davies
Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.
George Santayana
Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.
John Gay
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov
Jealousy - That dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self - Interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self - Love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.
Adam Smith
Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.
John Donne
Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
Sir Thomas More
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword
But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
1 Timothy 611 Bible
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
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Alice Hoffman
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James Baldwin
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
Martin Luthe
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch
Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.
Don Snyder, Of Time and Memory
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Pearl Buck
Courtly love - Poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney.
James Burke
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
George Santayana
Love is my Sword, Goodness my Armor, And Humor my Shield.
Unknown, epitaph for a loved one
The bottom line is that a people are never perfect, but love can be, b that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and c doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecke
For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
Baba Dioum
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
Bertrand Russell V. Delong