Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939
If you wished to be loved, love.
Seneca
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
William Shakespeare
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
William Shakespeare, As You Like It
If thou remember'st not the slightest folly / That ever love did make thee run into, / Thou hast not loved.
William Shakespeare, As You Like It
Let me not to the marriage of true minds / Admit impediments. Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds
/ Or bends with the remover to remove. / O, no! it is an ever-fix'd mark / That looks on tempests and is never shaken.
William Shakespeare, Sonnet XVI
Love is merely a madness.
William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
William Shakespeare, Sonnet XVIII
The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
To be wise and love Exceeds man's might; that dwells with the gods above.
William Shakespeare
Your heart's desires be with you.
William Shakespeare
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
William Temple
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they
have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain
Life without love is a shadow of things that might be.
Unknown
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Ghandi
A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after
slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
George Gordon
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta
People who throw kisses are mighty hopelessly lazy.
Bob Hope
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Green Hubbard
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that one is loved; loved for oneself, or better yet, loved despite oneself.
Victor Hugo
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
Alphonse de Lamartine, PremiÞres mÚditations poÚtiques
'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Henry Louis Mencken
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
Henry Louis Mencken
Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the soverign's ruination.
Napoleon
Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.
Saskya Pandita
Le coeur a ses raisons dont le cerveau ne sait nul. T: 'The heart has its reasons, of which the mind knows nothing.'
Blaise Pascal, Pensées
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fire.
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
Love covers over a multitude of sins.
Bible, 1 Peter 4:8
Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your father who is in heaven.
Bible, Matthew ?:?
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
Bible, Song of Solomon 8:7
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
Bible, 1 John 4:18
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a
man lay down his life for his friends.
Bible, John 15:12-13
He who binds himself to a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise
William Blake
I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
William Blake
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen
that he muses upon.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
Gerald Brenan, Thoughts in a Dry Season
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Samuel Butler, The Way of all Flesh, Ch. 77
Alas! the love of women! it is known / To be a lovely and a fearful thing.
George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II. 199
In her first passion woman loves her lover,/ In all the others all she loves is love.
George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III. 3
My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you
if you were the best of women, - or stop loving you, no matter what you do.
Catullus
Love not what you are, but what you may become.
Miguel de Cervantes
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age.
John Dryden, Amphitryon
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
Euripides
Where there's Marriage without Love, there will be Love without Marriage.
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Thomas Fuller, M. D.