100 Famous Quotes On Love

• When you’re taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love? Marilyn Manson
• I’ll come and make love to you at five o’clock. If I’m late start without me. Tallulah Bankhead
• Love means not ever having to say you’re sorry. Erich Segal
• Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. Edgar Allan Poe
• Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope. Josh Billings
• But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. Jesus Christ
• Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie’s man’s only promise. Leo Buscaglia
• Though lovers be lost love shall not. Dylan Thomas
• Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive. Miley Cyrus
• I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values – the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one’s children. Ednita Nazario
• 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
• 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
• I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people. Huey Newton
• Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. Rumi
• Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can’t even think straight. Marilyn French
• The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. Jean Racine
• Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same. Voltaire
• Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. Mother Teresa
• To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. Oscar Wilde
• The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche
• The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other. Honore de Balzac
• Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. Zelda Fitzgerald
• If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal. John Lennon
• Love is trembling happiness. Khalil Gibran
• When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. Wilde, Oscar
• What is love? It is the morning and the evening star. Sinclair Lewis
• True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility. Bryant H. McGill
• Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. John Barrymore
• I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job. Margaret Thatcher
• When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. Blaise Pascal
• Love thy neighbor – and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. Mae West
• Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. Mary Manin Morrissey
• Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. Henri Frederic Amiel
• Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it – memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. Tad Williams
• Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved we love to love. Leo Buscaglia
• Love is energy of life. Browning, Robert
• God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.’ Billy Graham
• Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. Leo Buscaglia
• People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. Bob Hope
• Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C. S. Lewis
• I have to admit that I fell in love twice. First was with you and the second was with the person you became when you were already mine. Unknown
• Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. Florian, Jean Pierre Claris
• If love is the treasure, laughter is the key. Yakov Smirnoff
• Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. William Shakespeare
• I think careful cooking is love, don’t you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who’s close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give. Julia Child
• Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire. Byron, Lord
• I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. Mother Teresa
• The one who loves least controls the relationship. Anon.
• Success comes from taking the initiative and following up… persisting… eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life? Tony Robbins
• To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face. Stendhal
• There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. Wilder, Thornton
• Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. Theodor Adorno
• I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn’t necessarily believe in. Oliver Reed
• If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question? Lily Tomlin
• Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost
• Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. John Gay
• You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. Buddha
• Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Love is a better teacher than duty. Albert Einstein
• Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. Pope John Paul II
• When you start falling for somebody and you can’t stop thinking about when you’re going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected. Orlando Bloom
• 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
• To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. Wilhelm von Leibnitz, Gottfried
• Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it’s not an issue of black and white, it’s an issue of Lovers and Haters. Eden Ahbez
• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao Tzu
• Love is perfect, even when we are not. Unknown
• Love is a hole in the heart. Ben Hecht
• We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
• Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. Bill Cosby
• Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. Rainer Maria Rilke
• Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. Rabindranath Tagore
• The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. George Edward Moore
• If I love you, what business is it of yours? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. Alfred A. Montapert
• Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense. Rowland, Helen
• If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don’t have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough. Ann Landers
• Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is. Sigmund Freud
• In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. Erich Fromm
• Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Rabindranath Tagore
• Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding. Louis Gerstner
• There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. Mother Teresa
• All love is vanquished by a succeeding love. Ovid
• Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. W. Somerset Maugham
• We can only learn to love by loving. Iris Murdoch
• I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Mother Teresa
• The love of economy is the root of all virtue. George Bernard Shaw
• I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person. Audrey Hepburn
• Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love? Fulton J. Sheen
• Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. ‘Cause that’s all that matters in the end. Kris Kristofferson
• We’re not raising children with the love that we need to. Bill Cosby
• No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? Lee Iacocca
• I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love. Mitt Romney
• A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live. Bob Hope
• Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret. Aphra Behn
• I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change. Nicholas Sparks
• Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. Marilyn Monroe
• 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
• A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. Oscar Wilde
• Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. Sarah Bernhardt