Quotations About Love
Related: Emotions
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Leacock
Literary Lapses, 1910
Literary Lapses, 1910
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Paul
Colossians, 3:19
Colossians, 3:19
How sweetly you do minister to love, That know love's grief by his complexion!
William Shakespeare
Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing
Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing
Fresh Spring, the herald of love's mighty king,
Edmund Spenser
Amoretti; LXX. Fresh Spring
Amoretti; LXX. Fresh Spring
If they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Paul
1 Corinthians 7:9
1 Corinthians 7:9
My mother's mild-eyed sadness looks at me from the eyes of those I love.
Mason Cooley
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Peter Devries
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham Lincoln
Music is love in search of a word.
Sidonie Gabrielle
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
Joseph Joubert
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
George MacDonald
Man loves little and often: Woman much and rarely.
Unknown
I love my father as the stars — he's a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart.
Terri Guillemets
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Unknown
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Robert Ingersoll
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
Walter Anderson
“is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
Unknown
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
Michael Leunig
Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson
The best proof of love is trust.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
No words are necessary between two loving hearts.
Unknown
She would love still, but she would never again be tender till her daughter should have repudiated her base,--her monstrous engagement.
Anthony Trollope
Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.
Unknown
Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.
Terri Guillemets
We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.
Unknown
The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to divine or universal love.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid.
Arabic Proverb
Are we not like two volumes of one book?
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
A life without love is like a year without summer.
Swedish Proverb
Just don't give up on 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
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Unknown
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
Ellen Key
A daughter is a gift of love.
Unknown
Love is not singular except in syllable.
Marvin Taylor
In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
Unknown
The problem with loving is that pets don't last long enough and people last too long.
Unknown
Angels have no philosophy but love.
Terri Guillemets
Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.
Hoosier Farmer
True love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach
Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.
Kevin Arnold
There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
Maurice Chevalier
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw