Quotations: Love

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams

Love is a great beautifier
Louisa May Alcott

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
Louisa May Alcott

Words of love are works of love.
William R. Alger

Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
Woody Allen

The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.
Henri-Frederic Amiel

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.
Sherwood Anderson

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give--which is everything.
Anon

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
Walter Bagehot

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
Pearl Bailey

Life is less than nothing without love.
Philip James Bailey

Love is the art of hearts, and heart of arts.
Philip James Bailey

None but the brave and beautiful can love.
Philip James Bailey

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
Philip James Bailey

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
Russell Baker

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Arthur Baldwin

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.
Louise Beal

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
Dr. Joyce Brothers

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A. Whitney Brown

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Samuel Butler

Love is like a Rubix Cube, there are countless numbers of wrong twists and turns, but when you get it right, it looks perfect no matter what way you look at it
Brian Cramer

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
Fr. Jerome Cummings

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
Walt Disney

Love comes unseen; we only see it go
Austin Dobson

Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there's even the slightest doubt in your head about a guy, then forget about it. It's not real.
Ethan Embry

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
W. L. George

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
Lisa Hoffman

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly
Sam Keen

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
Kay Knudsen

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.
National Lampoon

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
Tom Lehrer

You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.
Julie de Lespinasse

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho Marx

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
W. Somerset Maugham

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Andre Maurois

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing
Mignon McLaughlin

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
Hans Nouwens

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.
Swedish Proverb

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
Jules Renard

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Rita Rudner

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

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
Bill Russell

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

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Charles M. Schulz

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away.
Michael W. Smith

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Oscar Wilde

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