Love is the poetry of the senses.
~ Honore de Balzac
Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.
~ Daniel S. Greenberg
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
~ H. L. Mencken
Love
is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the
habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
~ John Ciardi
A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it.
~ Frank Howard Clark
A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.
~ Bil Keane
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
~ Ingrid Bergman
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
~ Rupert Brooke
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
~ Thomas Carlyle
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
~ Boethius
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
James Thurber
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Love means not ever having to say you’re sorry.
~ Erich Segal
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
~ James A. Baldwin
A
man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in
whose company he finds himself electrified and en-kindled, but for that
one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
~ George Jean Nathan
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
~ Henri B. Stendhal
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
~ Honore de Balzac
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
~ Julie Andrews
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
~ William Shakespeare
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
~ Plato
Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times.
~ Rita Rudner
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
Love that is not madness is not love.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
~ John Donne
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~ Lao Tzu
But
whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be
truth, for truth’s sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when
we awaken.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?
~ Richard Bach
Do all things with love.
~ Og Mandino
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
~ George Bernard Shaw
For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
~ Boethius
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
~ Judy Garland
Fortune and love favor the brave.
~ Ovid
Friendship is Love without his wings!
~ Lord Byron
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
~ Albert Einstein
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
~ Barbara Pym
I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
~ Javan
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken
Love is love’s reward.
~ John Dryden
Love is metaphysical gravity.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight
girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
~ Judith Viorst
Love is my religion – I could die for it.
~ John Keats
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
~ Mother Teresa
I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
~ George Eliot
I
was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the
thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in
love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
~ J. D. Salinger
Love
is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity
which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone
else.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Love is the beauty of the soul.
~ Saint Augustine
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
~ H. L. Mencken
Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.
~ John Lennon
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
~ Ben Hecht
