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I
hate and I love.
Why I do so, perhaps you ask.
I
know not, but I feel it and
I
am in torment.
Gaius Valerius Catullus
Love conquers all things;
let us too surrender
to
Love.
Virgil
Love knows nothing
of
order.
Saint Jerome
The eyes
those silent tongues
of
Love.
Miguel de Cervantes
But
true love is a durable fire,
In
the mind ever burning,
Never sick, never old,
never dead,
From itself never turning.
Sir Walter Ralegh
Love comforteth
like sunshine after rain.
William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes,
but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd
Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare
Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
William Shakespeare
The summer hath his joys,
And winter his delights;
Though love and all his
pleasures are but toys,
They shorten tedious nights.
Thomas Campion
No cord nor cable
can so forcibly draw,
or hold so fast,
as love can do
with a twined thread.
Robert Burton
What is a kiss?
Why this, as some approve:
The sure, sweet cement,
glue, and lime of love.
Robert Herrick
Love,
and a cough,
cannot be hid.
George Herbert
There
is no disguise
which can for long
conceal love where it exists
or simulate it
where it does not.
François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
True love is like
ghosts,
which everybody talks
about and few have seen.
François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Pains of love
be
sweeter far
Than all other
pleasures are.
John Dryden
Love to faults is always blind,
Always is to joy inclin'd,
Lawless, wing'd, and unconfin'd,
And breaks all chains
from every mind.
William Blake
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
Familiar acts are beautiful
through love.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A friend may well
be reckoned
the masterpiece of Nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our chief want in life
is somebody who shall make us
do what we can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No human creature can give
orders to love.
George Sand
There is only
one happiness in life,
to love and be loved.
George Sand
That Love is all there is,
Is
all we know of Love;
It
is enough,
the freight should be
Proportioned to the groove.
Emily Dickinson
For in my mind,
of
all mankind
I
love but you alone.
Anonymous, The Nut-Brown Maid
A supreme love…is not to be
had where and how
she wills.
George Eliott
I know of only one duty,
and that is to love.
Albert Camus
Love is indescribable
and unconditional. I could tell you
a thousand things that it is not,
but not one that it is.
Duke Ellington
Love can deny naught
to
love.
Th. Van de Velde
I'll be damned if I'll love
just to love -- there's got
to be more to it than that.
spoken by Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca
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-Exupéry
I never knew how
to
worship until I knew
how to love.
Henry Ward Beecher
Tell me whom you love
and I will tell you who you are.
Houssaye
To love another person is to see
the face of God.
from
Les Miserables
There is no
excellent beauty
that hath not some strangeness
in the proportion.
Francis Bacon
Bed is the poor
man's opera.
Italian proverb
I like my body
when it is with your body….
e.e. cummings
Love is but the discovery
of ourselves in others, and the delight
in the recognition.
Alexander Smith
The richest love is that which
submits to the arbitration of time.
Lawrence Durrell
To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best.
William Thackeray
Within you I lose myself
Without you I find myself
Wanting to be lost again.
Unknown
If you judge people,
you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
Truly loving another
means letting go of all expectations.
Karen Casey
Morning without you
is dwindled dawn.
Emily Dickinson
Your absence has not taught me
how to be alone, it merely has shown
that when together
we cast a single shadow….
Doug Fetherling
Love is a great
beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott
Our hours in love have wings;
in absence, crutches.
Colley Cibber
Be mysterious.
Advice given by John Bouvier to his daughter, Jacqueline (Kennedy
Onassis)
To me, fair friend,
you never can be old
For as you were when
first your eye I eyed
Such seems your beauty still.
William Shakespeare
Love built on beauty,
soon as beauty, dies.
John Donne
The glances over cocktails
That seemed so sweet;
Don't seem quite so amorous
Over shredded wheat.
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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a
habit.
Peter Ustinov
Love is
the tact of every good,
The only warmth,
the only peace.
Delmore Schwartz
Love is form, and cannot be without important
substance.
Charles Olsen
Love is the answer,
but while you're waiting
for the answer
sex raises some pretty good questions.
Woody Allen
Love doesn't make the world go 'round.
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones
Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates.
Ned Roren
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly
desired.
Robert Frost
Love is two minutes
fifty-two seconds
of squishing noises.
Johnny Rotten
Love is a sour delight, a sugur'd grief,
a living death, an ever-dying life.
Thomas Watson
Love is my religion -- I could die for it.
John Keats
Sex is a
shortcut to everything.
Anna Cummings
Anatomy is not
destiny.
Simone de Beauvoir
Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again.
For then the night will be more than
The hopeless longing of day.
Matthew Arnold
In time the Rockies may crumble
Gibraltar may tumble
(They're only made of clay)
But our love is here to stay.
Ira Gershwin
Imparudis'd
in one another's arms.
John Milton
Embrace me
My sweet embraceable you.
Embrace me
You irreplaceable you.
Ira Gershwin
A positive engagement
to marry a certain person
at a certain time…I have always
considered the most
ridiculous thing on earth.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Bind the sea to slumber still,
Bind its odor to the lily,
Bind the aspen ne'er to quiver,
Then bind love to last for ever.
Thomas Campbell
No, the heart that truly loved
never forgets,
But as truly
loves on to the close.
Thomas Moore
But love would not be love
if it did not slip over
into the excessive.
Edna O'Brien
We boil at different degrees.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If love is the answer,
could you
rephrase the question?
Lily Tomlin
I love you.
You love me.
We're a happy family.
Barney
When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were
taking off all her clothes.
Colette
Drink to me only with thine eyes
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup
And I'll not look for wine.
Ben Jonson
One doesn't fall in love; one grows into love, and
love grows in him.
Karl Menninger
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the
imagination
and bottling the common-sense.
Helen Rowland
I like familiarity.
In me it does not breed contempt. Only more familiarity.
Gertrude Stein
I'm so full. let's go home
and lie down.
Darryn Bouknight
We always believe our first love to be our last, and
our last love our first.
George John Whyte-Melville
I took one look at you
That's all I meant to do
And my heart stood still.
Lorenz Hart
No never forget!…Never forget any moment; they are
too few.
Elizabeth Bowen
Once a
woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for
breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich
Love must be learned,
and learned again and again.
Katherine Anne Porter
The heart has its reasons,
which reason does not know.
Pascal
Nobody has ever measured,
not even poets, how much
the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
The
lover who has not felt
the hot tears rise at the sight
of some slight, infinitely poignant
imperfection in the body of the beloved,
has never loved.
Mervyn Levy
The eyes start love:
intimacy perfects it.
Publilius Syrus
There is only only one kind of love,
but there are a thousand different imitations of it.
François, Duc de La Rochefoucald
Love must be
reinvented.
Arthur Rimbaud
Intimacy is a difficult art.
Virginia Woolf
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
Erich Segal
Immature love says: "I love you because I need
you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
Erich Fromm
The love of the older and disciplined
heart is as coals:
deep-burning, unquenchable.
Henry Ward Beecher
He kissed me and now I am somebody else.
Gabriella Mistral
You have to kiss an awful lot of frogs before you
find a prince.
Graffito
I like kissing
this and that of you…
e.e. cummings
Come live with me
and be my love.
And we will all the pleasures prove.
Christopher Marlowe
If you are afraid of loneliness,
do not marry.
Anton Chekov
Love is made by two people,
in different kinds of solitude.
José-Pierre Louis Aragon
But when he's gone
Me and the lonesome blues collide
The bed's too big
The frying pan is too wide.
Joni Mitchell
When you really want to love
you will find it
waiting for you.
Oscar Wilde
if the soul
is to know itself
it must look
into a soul
George Seferis
Anyone who is
repelled
by his sweetheart's farts
has no business talking about love.
Gunther Grass
Night and day,
you are the one.
Cole Porter
If you do not love me
I shall not be loved
If I do not love you
I shall not love
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like
bread, remade all the time, made new.
Ursala Le Guin
If you be loved,
be worthy of love.
Ovid
I loved him
for himself alone.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Love does not brook neglect.
Menander
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants
to be loved.
Mignon McLaughlin
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is
no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are
strategists.
Anita Brookner
You can give without loving,
but you cannot love without giving.
Ami Carmichael
Love consists of this, that two solitudes protect and
touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke
If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Money
can't buy love --
but it certainly puts you in a
wonderful bargaining position.
Harrison Baker
At the touch of love
everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
Love makes me write
what shame forbids me speak.
Robert Herrick
They [lovers] read every word three ways; they read
between the lines and in the margins…They even take punctuation into
account.
Mortimer J. Adler
You are the very one I've searched for
In many lands in every weather.
Heinrich Heine
And forget the He and She.
John Donne
A man has no business
to marry a woman
who can't make him miserable.
It means she can't make him happy.
Anonymous
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the
other guardian
of his solitude.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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
Lovers remember everything.
Ovid
When beauty fires the blood,
how love exalts the mind.
John Dryden
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
John Dryden
There are no
chaste minds.
Minds copulate wherever they meet.
Eric Hoffer
The body of
someone we love
is not altogether naked,
but is clothed and framed
in our feelings.
Anatole Boyard
In real love you want
the other person's good.
In romantic love
you want the other person.
Margaret Anderson
Tenderness is
the repose of passion.
Joseph Joulet
No one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed.
Sara Teasdale
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 Gustav Jung
No act is so private
it does not seek applause.
John Updike
Let
us form, as Freud has said,
a group of two
You are the best thing
this world can offer.
Randall Jarrell
Many things are lost for want of asking.
George Herbert
Never go to bed mad.
Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
Tell me, you who know, what is this thing called
love?
Lorenzo Da Ponte
Is sex necessary?
James Thurber and E.B. White
Can I ever know you
or you know me?
Sara Teasdale
I become
through my relation to the Thou;
as I become I, I say Thou.
All real living is meeting.
Martin Buber
Nothing spoils a romance
so much as a sense of humor
in a woman.
Oscar Wilde
We stop loving ourselves
when no one loves us.
Mme. De Staël
The beginning, middle,
and end of love is --
a sigh.
Arnold Haultain
I said, Baby! Baby!
Please don't snore so loud…
You jest a little bit o' woman, baby
Sound like a great big crowd.
Langston Hughes
Speak low, if you
speak of love.
William Shakespeare
To speak of love
is to make love.
Honoré de Balzac
Those that love the most speak least.
George Pettie
Whom we love best,
to them we can say the least.
John Ray
For God's sake hold your tongue,
and let me love.
John Donne
He loves but little who
Can say and count in words,
how much he loves.
Dante Alighieri
I wouldn't be too ladylike in love
if I were you.
Alan Patrick Herbert
Let
there be spaces
in your togetherness.
Kahlil Gibran
My God,
who wouldn't
want a wife?
Judy Syfers
Don't
expect a wife to help you
or hinder you.
Don't expect anything.
That is the golden rule of marriage.
Robertson Davies
Meek
wifehood is no part
of my profession; I am your friend,
but never your possession.
Vera Brittain
Love is not
the dying moan of a distant violin;
it's the triumphant twang
of a bedspring.
S.J. Perelman
The woman one loves
always smells good.
Remy de Gourmont
It
is well known
that we are susceptible
only to those suggestions
which we are already
secretly in accord.
Carl Gustav Jung
As soon as you cannot
keep anything
from a woman you love her.
Paul Géraldy
Love is an attempt to change
a piece of the dream-world
into reality.
Theodore Reik
In love there are two things:
bodies and words.
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