Famous Love Quotes

• I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. Khalil Gibran

• True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility. Bryant H. McGill

• Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. George Jean Nathan

• All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Leo Tolstoy

• Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. H. L. Mencken

• The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game. Michael Jordan

• He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. Franklin, Benjamin

• Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. Ella Fitzgerald

• Respect is what we owe love, what we give. Philip James Bailey

• Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will. Dan Millman

• All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society. Paulo Coelho

• Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. Mother Teresa

• Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him. Michael Jackson

• Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. Benjamin Franklin

• 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

• Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret. Aphra Behn

• 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. Auden, W. H.

• Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love. Scott, Sir Walter

• When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart. Edwin Booth

• Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. Mae West

• If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours. Charles Caleb Colton

• Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. Erich Fromm

• People everywhere love Windows. Bill Gates

• A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. Wyatt, Woodrow

• I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that. Princess Diana

• I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. Ayn Rand

• May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love! Henry David Thoreau

• The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. George Bernard Shaw

• If you wished to be loved, love. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that. Angelina Jolie

• To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. Oscar Wilde

• I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special. Jennifer Aniston

• Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce

• From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings. Helen Hayes

• We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love. Sigmund Freud

• Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. William Congreve

• The love we give away is the only love we keep. Hubbard, Elbert

• A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. Stendhal

• If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by. Julia Roberts

• I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Bronte

• Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. Davis, Bette

• Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. Miguel Angel Ruiz

• I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength. Elisabeth Shue

• All love is vanquished by a succeeding love. Ovid

• It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. Shirley MacLaine

• My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do. Mitt Romney

• A flower falls, even though we love it and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. Dogen

• Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship-never. Colton, Charles C.

• Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? William Shakespeare

• Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. George Bernard Shaw

• There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. Henry Ward Beecher

• What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity. Leo Buscaglia

• 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 feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible. Thomas a Kempis

• Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

• Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. Sarah Bernhardt

• The most dangerous food is a wedding cake. Proverb

• You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights. Edward Koch

• Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. Oscar Wilde

• Love is friendship set on fire. Jeremy Taylor

• 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. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Those whom the gods love grow young. Oscar Wilde

• When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. Wilde, Oscar

• Don't aim for success if you want it just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. David Frost

• I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. Mahatma Gandhi

• A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away! Oscar Hammerstein II

• In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. Erich Fromm

• This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November. Mitt Romney

• 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

• When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. Wilde, Oscar

• I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire. Angelina Jolie

• We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. Benjamin Disraeli

• When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. Natalie Clifford Barney

• All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. Andre Breton

• No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her. Alexander Pope

• 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

• If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. Jesus Christ

• He that is jealous is not in love. Saint Augustine

• I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. Henry David Thoreau

• It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. Margaret Thatcher

• You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. Robert Louis Stevenson

• If it's wrong to love you, then my heart just wont let me be right. Unknown

• It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. Henry Ward Beecher

• Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! Anne Frank

• Love is a hole in the heart. Ben Hecht

• Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. Mother Teresa

• To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. H. L. Mencken

• To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. Plato

• Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? Richard Bach

• To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. Wilhelm von Leibnitz, Gottfried

• Love gives itself; it is not bought. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

• All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place. Mitt Romney

• Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator. Glenn Hughes

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

• Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. Friedrich Nietzsche

• Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. e. e. cummings

• Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau

• To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. Gilbert K. Chesterton