Love Quotes

“If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“I love you more than my own skin.”

— Frida Kahlo

“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“A jug of wine, a loaf of bread—and thou.”

— Edward Fitzgerald

“To a father growing old: Nothing is dearer than a daughter.”

— Euripides

“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”

— Katharine Hepburn

“I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.”

— Booker T. Washington

“He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Love is the answer, and you know that for sure. Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.”

— John Lennon

“I'm married to my wife Stella, a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.”

— Anthony Hopkins

“The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.”

— Jean Racine

“I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last. A romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”

— Rita Rudner

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”

— Erich Segal

“Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.”

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

“When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her except continue to love her.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”

— Charles de Gaulle

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”

— Aristotle

“Grief is the price we pay for love.”

— Queen Elizabeth II

“There are no guarantees from the viewpoint of fear; none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.”

— Emmanuel Teney

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

— William Shakespeare

“Love is being stupid together.”

— Paul Valéry

“Marriage is an adventure like going to war.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Love is a serious mental disease.”

— Plato

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”

— Nelson Mandela

“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”

— Mother Teresa

“Never get married in the morning; you never know who you might meet that night.”

— Paul Hornung

“But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

“When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad taste remarks.”

— Slavoj Žižek

“My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet.”

— Edith Wharton

“Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known.”

— William Shakespeare

“Women are made to be loved, not understood.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I'll love you dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.”

— W. H. Auden

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”

— Jim Valvano

“The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for, and I hate very much to leave it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

— William Shakespeare

“Who, being loved, is poor?”

— Oscar Wilde

“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts; a mother always has to think twice: once for herself and once for her child.”

— Sophia Loren

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”

— Anatole France

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”

— Audrey Hepburn

“Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.”

— Mother Teresa

“If you love something, let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.”

— Douglas Horton

“Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.”

— Joey Adams

“If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art.”

— William Morris

“The things that we love tell us what we are.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”

— William Shakespeare

“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”

— William Shakespeare

“Family is not an important thing. It's everything.”

— Michael J. Fox

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

— Lao Tzu

“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”

— Coretta Scott King

“He is not a lover who does not love forever.”

— Euripides

“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”

— Albert Einstein

“There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.”

— Martin Luther

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

— Rumi

“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“You may have the universe if I may have Italy.”

— Giuseppe Verdi

“Only do what your heart tells you.”

— Princess Diana

“Ah me! Love cannot be cured by herbs.”

— Ovid

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.”

— Jane Austen

“The things that we love tell us what we are.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“I have a love interest in every one of my films – a gun.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.”

— Boethius

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”

— Robert Frost

“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”

— William Shakespeare

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”

— Mother Teresa

“If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love.”

— Albus Dumbledore

“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Love is the beauty of the soul.”

— Saint Augustine

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

— Lao Tzu

“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.”

— Robert Browning

“Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go, it's pretty damn good.”

— Woody Allen

“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”

— William Shakespeare

“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Little Red Riding Hood was my first love; I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.”

— Charles Dickens

“Fortune and love favor the brave.”

— Ovid

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”

— Ingrid Bergman

“Family is the most important thing in the world.”

— Princess Diana

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”

— Pablo Neruda

“Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”

— Roger Caras

“To love another person is to see the face of God.”

— Victor Hugo

“Family makes a house a home.”

— Jennifer Hudson

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

— Walter Benjamin

“Love is the flower you've got to let grow.”

— John Lennon

“Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.”

— Charles Dickens

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”

— Dalai Lama

“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.”

— Mother Teresa

“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.”

— Maya Angelou

“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity: romantic love and gunpowder.”

— André Maurois

“When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts and take counsel from himself.”

— François Rabelais

“I hope you love birds too. It is economical; it saves going to heaven.”

— Emily Dickinson

“If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better, and that makes you so happy.”

— Kristin Chenoweth

“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”

— Jean Cocteau

“If you wished to be loved, love.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“All this fuss about sleeping together for physical pleasure! I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.”

— Evelyn Waugh

“I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.”

— Ioan Gruffudd

“To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside where it functions best.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”

— Phyllis Diller

“He who loves flies runs and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.”

— Henri Matisse

“It is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

— Charles Dickens

“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me; they have clung to me all my life.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Peace is our gift to each other.”

— Elie Wiesel

“Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.”

— Miguel de Cervantes

“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods.”

— Plato

“To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose, the next best.”

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by Imagination.”

— Voltaire

“No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.”

— George Chakiris

“Love does not claim possession but gives freedom.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.”

— Robert Browning

“My family is my strength and my weakness.”

— Aishwarya Rai

“Love conquers all.”

— Virgil

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

— Marya Mannes

“Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.”

— Anne Frank

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”

— Victor Hugo

“May these vows and this marriage be blessed.”

— Rumi

“You may call God love; you may call God goodness; but the best name for God is compassion.”

— Meister Eckhart

“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

— Sam Keen

“All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.”

— Voltaire

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”

— Dalai Lama

“People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.”

— Claude Monet

“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.”

— James Herriot

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”

— Jane Austen

“I have no companion but Love. No beginning, no end, no dawn. The soul calls from within me; you, ignorant of the way of Love, set me free.”

— Rumi

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“Where there is great love, there are always wishes.”

— Willa Cather

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The most important thing in the world is family and love.”

— John Wooden

“Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love; that is the soul of genius.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”

— Aphra Behn

“In our life, there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.”

— Marc Chagall

“Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.”

— Ovid

“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone; we find it with another.”

— Thomas Merton

“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.”

— Max Muller

“True love stories never have endings.”

— Richard Bach

“Perhaps people like us cannot love ordinary people. Can that be their secret?”

— Hermann Hesse

“Love is being stupid together.”

— Paul Valéry

“Joy is prayer; joy is strength; joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”

— Mother Teresa

“Love is like any other luxury; you have no right to it unless you can afford it.”

— Anthony Trollope

“We must act out passion before we can feel it.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Family comes first. You're the only thing they have.”

— Heidi Klum

“Age does not protect you from love, but love, to some extent, protects you from age.”

— Anaïs Nin

“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”

— William Blake

“Love is metaphysical gravity.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.”

— Bernard Meltzer

“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”

— H.L. Mencken

“My weaknesses have always been food and men, in that order.”

— Dolly Parton

“If you enter this world knowing you are loved, and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”

— Michael Jackson

“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

“There is no love that is not an echo.”

— Theodor Adorno

“The way to know life is to love many things.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

“The heart will break, but broken live on.”

— Lord Byron

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

— William Shakespeare

“For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.”

— Robert B. Parker

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

— Helen Keller

“I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”

— Mother Teresa

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are expecting to give, which is everything.”

— Katharine Hepburn

“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone; we find it with another.”

— Thomas Merton

“The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet they testify to invisible love.”

— Rumi

“The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.”

— Andy Warhol

“Great love affairs start with champagne and end with tisane.”

— Honoré de Balzac

“A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity; the order varies for any given year.”

— Paul Sweeney

“Marriage is the tomb of love.”

— Giacomo Casanova

“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the Bible says love your enemy.”

— Frank Sinatra

“It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made, but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.”

— Jason Reitman

“It is women who love horror, gloat over it, feed on it, are nourished by it, shudder and cling and cry out and come back for more.”

— Bela Lugosi

“The first duty of love is to listen.”

— Paul Tillich

“Love is a hole in the heart.”

— Ben Hecht

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

— Mother Teresa

“When Christ died, He died for you individually, just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Staying married may have long-term benefits; you can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.”

— P.J. O'Rourke

“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”

— Mother Teresa

“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.”

— Socrates

“I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.”

— Billy Sunday

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up.”

— James A. Baldwin

“Love is a better teacher than duty.”

— Albert Einstein

“The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.”

— Che Guevara

“Happiness is only real when shared.”

— Christopher McCandless

“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.”

— A.A. Milne

“To love someone means to see him as God intended him.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”

— Thomas Paine

“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”

— Maya Angelou

“From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.”

— Socrates

“While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.”

— Christopher Marlowe

“A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.”

— Brendan Francis

“Without a family, man alone in the world trembles with the cold.”

— Andre Maurois

“I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss; you can't do it alone.”

— John Cheever

“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Love is blind.”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“See how these Christians love one another.”

— Tertullian

“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.”

— Patrick Henry

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.”

— Jane Austen

“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?”

— Groucho Marx

“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”

— Sigmund Freud

“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“The best way to know God is to love many things.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

“You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.”

— Desmond Tutu

“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. This is the eternal rule.”

— Buddha

“A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.”

— André Maurois

“Men always want to be a woman's first love; women like to be a man's last romance.”

— Oscar Wilde

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”

— Charles M. Schulz

“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall; each moment first to let go of life, finally to take a step without feet.”

— Rumi

“One man's folly is another man's wife.”

— Helen Rowland

“Love consists in this: that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”

— Honoré de Balzac

“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”

— William Wordsworth

“Friendship is love without his wings.”

— Lord Byron

“Never go to bed angry; stay up and fight.”

— William Congreve

“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones; as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.”

— Mother Teresa

“Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.”

— David O. McKay

“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”

— Mother Teresa

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”

— Robert Frost

“In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

— Paul McCartney

“I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”

— Og Mandino

“I am on to see my husband.”

— Beyoncé

““Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps marriage is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.””

— Franz Kafka

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”

— Victor Hugo

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”

— Mother Teresa

“War is not the answer because only love can conquer hate.”

— Marvin Gaye

“Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get; it's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.”

— Barbara De Angelis

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.”

— James C. Dobson

“To keep your marriage brimming with love in the loving cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.”

— Ogden Nash

“I have such a rich fantasy life; I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.”

— Mindy Kaling

“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”

— George Eliot

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”

— Pablo Picasso

“Love the giver more than the gift.”

— Brigham Young

“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”

— Emily Dickinson

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

— Jimi Hendrix

“I love those who yearn for the impossible.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.”

— Yogi Berra

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”

— Theodore Hesburgh

“Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”

— Mother Teresa

“I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.”

— Pablo Neruda

“Men's vows are women's traitors.”

— William Shakespeare

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

— Buddha

“I love those who do not know how to live for today.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sometimes it's hard to be a woman, giving all your love to just one man.”

— Tammy Wynette

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched; they must be felt with the heart.”

— Helen Keller

“I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”

— Mother Teresa

“Grief is the price we pay for love.”

— Queen Elizabeth II

“Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.”

— Martin Luther

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”

— Anaïs Nin

“Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore, only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.”

— Anthony Hopkins

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

“They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.”

— Alexander Pope

“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”

— Stendhal

“But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.”

— Michael Jackson

“I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.”

— Confucius

“Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.”

— Anton Chekhov

“A good husband makes a good wife.”

— John Florio

“Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love.”

— Terence

“I just love Chinese food; my favourite dish is number 27.”

— Clement Attlee

“Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.”

— Lord Byron

“Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”

— Mother Teresa

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, in spite of ourselves.”

— Victor Hugo

“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care; but for another gives its ease, and builds a heaven in hell's despair.”

— William Blake

“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to persuade my wife to marry me.”

— Winston Churchill

“I've already told you, the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.”

— Marquis de Sade

“We are born of love; love is our mother.”

— Rumi

“Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.”

— Henry Van Dyke

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

— Oscar Wilde

“A bachelor of arts is one who makes love to a lot of women and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.”

— Helen Rowland

“Love and work, work and love—that's all there is.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”

— Saint Augustine

“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“There is no instinct like that of the heart.”

— Lord Byron

“Love is friendship set to music.”

— Joseph Campbell

“Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden; it's something you have to make, and you must use your imagination too.”

— Joyce Cary

“Love is a symbol of eternity; it wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.”

— Madame de Staël

“Love: a temporary insanity curable by marriage.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.”

— Torquato Tasso

“Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.”

— Wendy Liebman

“Children are the anchors of a mother's life.”

— Sophocles

“We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We're born alone; we live alone; we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”

— Orson Welles

“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”

— Lord Byron

“We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence and its only end.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.”

— Graham Norton

“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”

— Mother Teresa

“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it is simply purgatory.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Grief is the price we pay for love.”

— Queen Elizabeth II

“He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.”

— José Rizal

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

“I want a permanent relationship and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent.”

— Alan Turing

“Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone than I ever have before.”

— Ben Folds

“A smart girl leaves before she is left.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.”

— Theodor Adorno

“Those whom the gods love grow young.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Where there is love there is life.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Faith makes all things possible; love makes all things easy.”

— Dwight L. Moody

“In nine cases out of ten a woman had better show more affection than she feels.”

— Jane Austen

“There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.”

— Maya Angelou

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

— William Shakespeare

“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.”

— Carl Sagan

“The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“The love of one's country is a splendid thing, but why should love stop at the border?”

— Pablo Casals

“People protect what they love.”

— Jacques-Yves Cousteau

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

— Mother Teresa

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”

— Peter Ustinov

“If you want to be loved, be lovable.”

— Ovid

“A mother's arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in them.”

— Victor Hugo

“Love means not having to say you're sorry.”

— Erich Segal

“I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

— Anne Frank

“It is impossible to love and to be wise.”

— Francis Bacon

“We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations; we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.”

— Rodney Dangerfield

“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.”

— Anatole France

“Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.”

— Gilbert Parker

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

— William Shakespeare

“The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.”

— Publilius Syrus

“Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on earth.”

— John Lyly

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”

— Sigmund Freud

“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”

— John Ruskin

“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.”

— Sophocles

“There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.”

— Princess Diana

“Love always brings difficulties; that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”

— Martin Luther

“I'm a better husband and father than I was a killer.”

— Chris Kyle

“If I love you, what business is it of yours?”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The heart yearns for what it cannot have.”

— Unknown

“Love the art in yourself, and not yourself in the art.”

— Constantin Stanislavski

“I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”

— Mother Teresa

“They do not love that do not show their love.”

— William Shakespeare

“A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.”

— Frank Morgan

“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.”

— Sigmund Freud

“In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.”

— Cyril Connolly

“Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.”

— Johann Sebastian Bach

“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”

— James A. Baldwin

“Love is a reciprocal torture.”

— Marcel Proust

“Love begets love; love knows no rules; this is the same for all.”

— Virgil

“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”

— William Blake

“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”

— André Maurois

“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.”

— William Shakespeare

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”

— Maya Angelou

“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you they will be there long before any of us.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.”

— E.E. Cummings

“Women: Can't live with them, can't live without them.”

— Desiderius Erasmus

“Love is all it gives, all and it takes all.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Now a soft kiss; aye, by that kiss I vow an endless bliss.”

— John Keats

“A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.”

— Cyrano de Bergerac

“I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.”

— Bob Dylan

“Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.”

— Elizabeth I

“The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Home is where the heart is.”

— Pliny the Elder

“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”

— Robert Browning

“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?”

— Lily Tomlin

“Oh! 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!”

— Lewis Carroll

“You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.”

— Desmond Tutu

“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”

— Charles de Gaulle

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.”

— George Orwell

“Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

— Emily Brontë

“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in that action.”

— Mother Teresa

“One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”

— Jane Austen

“The best proof of love is trust.”

— Joyce Brothers

“The one who loves the least controls the relationship.”

— Robert Anthony

“When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives, and friends; one retains only compassion for them.”

— Ramakrishna

“From caring comes courage.”

— Lao Tzu

“Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?”

— James A. Baldwin

“Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.”

— Sitting Bull

“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”

— William Congreve

“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”

— Saint Augustine

“The first duty of love is to listen.”

— Paul Tillich

“What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.”

— Pearl Bailey

“When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice—my voice.”

— Mstislav Rostropovich

“It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.”

— Voltaire

“Food brings people together on many different levels; it's nourishment of the soul and body; it's truly love.”

— Giada De Laurentiis

“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“I love Joan Collins; she's a wonderful lady. She has such courage; she's such a good actress.”

— Robert Wagner

“May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.”

— Rumi

“Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.”

— Lewis Grizzard

“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”

— Carl Jung

“Love and friendship exclude each other.”

— Jean de La Bruyère

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”

— Albert Einstein

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Love and kindness are never wasted; they always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.”

— Barbara De Angelis

“Love works a different way in different minds; The fool it enlightens, and the wise it blinds.”

— John Dryden

“Love, in its essence, is spiritual fire.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.”

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

“The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart; the most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.”

— Carlos Santana

“Marriage is like life; it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”

— Charles de Gaulle

“The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.”

— Matthew Arnold

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”

— Charles Dickens

“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”

— Honoré de Balzac

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

— Bertrand Russell

“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”

— Khalil Gibran

“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”

— Gloria Steinem

“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.”

— Bernard Williams

“Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.”

— Hippocrates

“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“My strength has the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.”

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.”

— Teri Garr

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”

— Lucille Ball

“The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart—the place where love resides.”

— Audrey Hepburn

“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.”

— H.L. Mencken

“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.”

— Oscar Wilde

“If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”

— Mother Teresa

“Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little, now and then.”

— Jane Austen

“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.”

— H. McGill Bryant

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The giving of love is an education in itself.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.”

— Plato

“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”

— George Sand

“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”

— Blaise Pascal

“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Love is space and time measured by the heart.”

— Marcel Proust

“Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“You can't blame gravity for falling in love.”

— Albert Einstein

“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”

— Emily Dickinson

“We can only learn to love by loving.”

— Iris Murdoch

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”

— William Shakespeare

“To say 'I love you,' one must first be able to say the 'I.'”

— Ayn Rand

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing muscles better and nerves more.”

— e.e. cummings

“Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”

— George Sand

“Grief is the price we pay for love.”

— Queen Elizabeth II

“Forgiveness is the final form of love.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship never.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry, to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”

— Maya Angelou

“Everything is clearer when you're in love.”

— John Lennon

“Respect is what we owe; love is what we give.”

— Philip James Bailey

“Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.”

— Lucille Ball

“Love is friendship set on fire.”

— Jeremy Taylor

“Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.”

— Elizabeth I

“The moment I first heard love, I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.”

— Rumi

“Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

“If we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.”

— Jackie Kennedy

“The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.”

— Charles Kuralt

“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”

— Plato

“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.”

— Barbara De Angelis

“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”

— Mark Twain

“What I love most about animation is it's a team sport and everything we do is about pure imagination.”

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”

— Sigmund Freud

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

— Buddha

“He that is jealous is not in love.”

— Saint Augustine

“If one of two lovers is loyal and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last? For love is slain.”

— Marie de France

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.”

— Sophocles

“Love is a binding force by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery; bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice; the spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.”

— Morihei Ueshiba

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

— Rumi

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours; and if they don't, they never were.”

— Khalil Gibran

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love; and the one thing we never give enough is love.”

— Henry Miller

“Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.”

— Aristophanes

“I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.”

— Confucius

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.”

— Aristotle Onassis

“Don't let love interfere with your appetite; it never does with mine.”

— Anthony Trollope

“If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see that heart which others bleed for, bleed for me.”

— William Congreve

“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.”

— Nan Fairbrother

“They gave each other a smile with a future in it.”

— Ring Lardner

“If there hadn't been women, we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.”

— Orson Welles

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

— Jane Austen

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”

— Albert Einstein

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”

— Mother Teresa

“Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'”

— Erich Fromm

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.”

— Josh Billings

“If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

— John Irving

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't, they never were.”

— Richard Bach

“One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.”

— Oscar Wilde

“When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.”

— Joseph Campbell

“To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Love has no age, no limit, and no death.”

— John Galsworthy

“It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.”

— Mae West

“Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Love is an adventure and a conquest; it survives and develops like the universe itself only by perpetual discovery.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”

— Lord Byron

“Human beings must be known to be loved; but divine beings must be loved to be known.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.”

— Anaïs Nin

“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.”

— Emily Dickinson

“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”

— Martin Luther

“Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love.”

— Sitting Bull

“It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone so far.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”

— Khalil Gibran

“All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.”

— André Breton

“Be of love a little more careful than of anything.”

— e.e. cummings

“This is one of the miracles of love: it gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”

— C.S. Lewis

“On stage, I make love to twenty-five thousand people and then I go home alone.”

— Janis Joplin

“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in that action.”

— Mother Teresa

“Love is all we have; the only way that each can help the other.”

— Euripides

“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?”

— H.L. Mencken

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