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Love Quotes

Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Franklin P. Jones

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

If you have it [Love], you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have.

Sir James M. Barrie

Love is a friendship set to music.

E. Joseph Cossman

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

Voltaire

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Lord Byron

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

This is my commandment, that ye love one another.

Jesus, John 15:12

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.

I Corinthians 13:4-8

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

William Shakespeare

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Eric Fromm

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Henry Ward Beecher

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

Kahlil Gibran

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Pearl Bailey

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Wayne Dyer

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Helen Rowland

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.

Michael Leunig

You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.

Anonymous

He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.

Dante Alighieri

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Diane Ackerman

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Doug Horton

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.

Mark Overby

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

Robert A. Heinlein,

Time Enough for Love
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

A friend is someone who knows all about you, and loves you just the same.

Proverb

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

John Lennon

HUMOR

I know that somewhere in the Universe exists my perfect soulmate – but looking for her is much more difficult than just staying at home and ordering another pizza.

Alf Whit

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Woody Allen

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Henry Louis Mencken

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.

Melanie Griffith, Milk Money

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.

David Bissonette

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

H. L. Mencken

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

Pearl Bailey

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Henny Youngman

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

Erich Segal

You can’t put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Melanie Clark

Love: Two minds without a single thought.

Philip Barry

Three things can’t be hidden: coughing, poverty, and love.

Yiddish proverb

We cannot really love anybody without whom we never laugh.

Alice Reppler

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