Love Quotes

True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.

Paulo Coelho, Brida

Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - And to put its trust in life.

Joseph Conrad

Where there is love, there is pain.

Danish prove

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

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

Publilius Syrus

Richard Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever - wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied.

Fawn M. Brodie

If a man who cannot count finds a four - Leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

Stanislaw Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.

Sybil Marshall

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

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

Buddha

Love builds bridges where there are none.

R. H. Delaney

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles De Gaulle

Do all things with love.

Og Mandino

There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.

Coco Chanel

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

Kahlil Gibran

Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.

Hesiod

The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Immature love says, I love you because I need you, mature love says, I need you because I love you.

Winston Churchill

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - First to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Albert Camus

The road to true love never did run smooth.

Shakespeare

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

Nancy Spain

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Jacques Maritain

Yer beautiful in yer wrath! I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer hatred will kindle into love.

John Wayne, (as Genghis Kahn to Susan Hayward in the move The Conqueror) 1956

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Haniel Long

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

Eric Hoffe

Love and you shall be loved.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

The pleasure of love is in loving.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Reading and Writing".

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

Gloria Steinem

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Dan Quayle

To be feared is much safer then to be loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

You live, you learn You love, you learn You cry, you learn You lose, you learn You bleed, you learn You scream, you learn.

Alanis Morissette

My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920