Love is love, and ever shall be, in spite of our fathers and mothers. -- Meredith
Love is sentimental measles. -- Charles Kingsley
Life without love is a load: and time stands still:
When we refuse to him, to death we give;
And then, then only, when we love, we live. -- Congreve
Love is greater than a pair of spectacles to make everything seem greater which is seen through it. -- Sidney
Can one ever remember love? It's like trying to summon the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. -- Arthur Miller
Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. -- Emma Goldman
All the world may not love a lover, but all the world watches him. -- Robert Chambers
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble; for the proud
heart, as it loves none but itself, so it is beloved of none but by
itself; the voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of
humility is God's rhetoric. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor
strength can prevail nor reason.-- Quarles.
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less
difficult to know it has begun. A thousand heralds proclaim it to the
listening air, a thousand messengers betray it to the eye. Tone, act,
attitude and look, the signals upon the countenance, the electric
telegraph of touch,--all these betray the yielding citadel before the
word itself is uttered, which, like the key surrendered, opens every
avenue and gate of entrance, and renders retreat impossible.-- Longfellow.
Though a man excel in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jewelled cup which can contain no wine. -- Yoshida Kenko
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person. -— Margaret Anderson
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes; men who like women never notice what they wear. -- Anatole France
The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and
the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume,
when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt;
there must be difficulty and danger.--WALTER SCOTT.
Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much
as the two sides of an algebraic equation.--EMERSON.
Love is the true price of love. -- George Herbert
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the
life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they
are wholly restrained love will die at the roots.--HAWTHORNE.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. -- Jimi Hendrix
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley
When a love relationship is at its height there is no room for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves. -- Sigmund Freud
The love of money is the root of all evil.--The Bible, 1 TIMOTHY 6:10.
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. It serves for food and
raiment. --Longfellow.
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they,
who are so fresh from God, love us.-- Dickens.
In our present pygmy state love is indeed a stranger to most people. Misunderstood and shunned, it rarely takes root; or if it does, it soon withers and dies. Its delicate fiber can not endure the stress and strain of the daily grind. Its soul is too complex to adjust itself to the slimy woof of our social fabric. It weeps and moans and suffers with those who have need of it, yet lack the capacity to rise to love's summit.
Some day, some day men and women will rise, they will reach the mountain peak, they will meet big and strong and free, ready to receive, to partake, and to bask in the golden rays of love. What fancy, what imagination, what poetic genius can foresee even approximately the potentialities of such a force in the life of men and women. If the world is ever to give birth to true companionship and oneness, not marriage, but love will be the parent. -- Emma Goldman
Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life,
and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it
is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly
heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife
into the bargain!--Thackeray.
Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous
love. --Henry Home.
Friendship is constant in all other things,
Save in the office and affairs of love.
Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself,
And trust no other agent. -- Shakespeare, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, Act ii. Sc. 1.
Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the
thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be
forgotten.--Chalmers.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because
fear hath torment.--The Bible 1 JOHN 4:18
but of course ...
As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear,/So hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, TheIdylls of the King
It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.
--Hazlitt
