Love Quotes

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Josh Billings

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Edgar Z. Friedenberg

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

1 Corinthians 13: 13, 1 Corinthians 13: 13

A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval

True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkenss, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds, a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.

Jim Bishop

We do not hate those we fight; we do not love those we defend.

Unknown, Tuskegee Airman motto during World War II

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

C. C. Colton

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Elbert Hubbard

I love America. You always hurt the one you love.

David Frye impersonating Nixon

There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Stephen Stills

My mother loved children - - She would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non - Violence.

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Benjamin Disraeli

Love is the very essence of life.

Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something

To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.

Bernard Iddings Bell

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

Dr. Karl Menninge

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Harper Lee

Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love - - The love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

Hermann Hesse

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - - Not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.

Mark Twain

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

W. H. Auden

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.

Addison Mizne

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self - Denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

Jackie Mason

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Mae West

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

Alphonse Ka

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Robert J. Ringe

Was she so loved because her eyes were so beautiful, or were her eyes so beautiful because she was so loved.

Anzia Yenerska

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize how much you love them.

Agatha Christie

A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Saint Basil

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

Og Mandino

There isn? t 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 aren? t really living without it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, August 27, 2003

The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing.

Woodrow Wilson

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - If you love them enough.

George Washington Carve

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

George Eliot