Love Quotes

We never get to love by hate, least of all by self - Hatred.

Basil W. Maturin

Comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.

King Soloman

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

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

Henry David Thoreau

Love is friendship set on fire.

Jeremy Taylo

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having.

Juvenal

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitalitythe supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.

Will Durant

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

Louise Erdrich

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 3

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Marya Mannes

Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.

Woody Allen, "Without Feathers".

In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.

John Steinbeck

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

Victor Hugo

All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.

Sri da Avabhas

I love to go to Washington - - If only to be near my money.

Bob Hope

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXVI

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

Pearl Bailey

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

John Keats

Oh, that lovely title, ex - President.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Spanish Prove

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Sigmund Freud

War is like love; it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

Bernard Mannes Baruch

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

John Updike

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young.

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

Gabriel Oh come on Stan Not everything ends the way you think it should Besides, audiences love happy endings.

Swordfish

I love life because what more is there.

Anthony Hopkins

If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world a prescription often given, too rarely taken.

Dr. Karl Menninge

This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - - In so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

Thomas Mann

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Benjamin Disraeli

We need not think alike to love alike.

Francis David

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