Quotations of Love
And I still have an old diskette with all our love poems on it. Kinda funny, my grandmother had a shoe box of letters, I have a diskette of e-mails... I wonder which is the more romantic? :)
--Gila Monster
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
--Mignon McLaughlin
Love that hath none of thy senses; is not love at'll
Lust that hath no loving, isn't a pleasure; it's but a heartache.
--Lee K. McCarthy
The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire.
--Francois de la Rouchefoucauld
Kisses kept are wasted;
Love is to be tasted.
There are some you love, I know;
Be not loathe to tell them so.
Lips go dry and eyes grow wet
Waiting to be warmly met,
Keep them not in waiting yet;
Kisses kept are wasted.
--Edmund Vance Cooke (1866-1932)
But his kiss was so sweet,
And so closely he pressed,
That I languished and pined
Till I granted the rest.
--John Gay (1688-1732)
I love thee like puddings;
if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.
--John Ray (1627-1705)
I love your lips when they're wet with wine
And red with a wicked desire.
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855-1919)
When I Have Fears
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance.
--John Keats (1795-1821)
Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
--Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired.
--Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven,
A spark of that immortal fire,
With angels shar'd, by Allah given
To lift from earth our low desire.
--George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
The fate of love is that it always
seems too little or too much.
--Amelia Barr (1831-1919)
Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.
--John Dryden (1631-1700)
The same wind snuffs candles yet kindles fires; so,
where absence kills a little love, it fans a great one
--Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680).
Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything.
--Jean B. H. Lacordaire (1802-1861)
The soul of a woman lives in love.
--Lydia H. Sigourney (1791-1865)
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
--Antoine de Saint Exupery (1900-1944)
Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel.
--Meher Baba (1894-1969)
When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels leave heaven and come sit in that house and sing for joy.
--Brahma
there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, - first fluttering of its silken wings.
--Longfellow (1819-1892)
Love - A portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as ... the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
--Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
It was thy kiss, Love, that made me immortal.
Margaret Witter Fuller (1871-1936)"Dryad Song"
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
--Sophocles (B.C. 495-406)
What a recreation it is to be in love! It sets the heart aching so delicately, there's no taking a wink of sleep for the pleasure of the pain.
--George Colman the Younger (1762-1836)
Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
--Franklin P. Jones
...love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
--Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Love is life, love is the lamp that lights the universe: without that light this goodly frame, the earth, is a barren promontory and man the quintessence of dust.
--Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837-1915)
That...sentiment...the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
--Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
--Mignon McLaughlin
What is love without passion? - A garden without flowers, a hat without feathers, tobogganing without snow.
Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854-1921
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
--Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Any time that is not spent on love is wasted.
--Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)
If you wish to be loved, love.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
Love that is hoarded moulds at last
Until we know some day
The only thing we ever have
Is what we gave away.
--Louis Ginsberg
The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
--Ursula Le Guin (b. 1929)
Love is like quicksilver in the hand.
Leave the fingers open and it stays.
Clutch it, and it darts away.
--Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
My heart is open wide tonight
For stranger, kith or kin
I would not bar a single door
Where love might enter in.
--Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923)
The hours I spent with thee, dear heart,
Are as a string of pearls to me;
I count them over, every one apart,
My rosary, my rosary.
--Robert Cameron Rogers (1862-1912)
True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven
It is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind,
In body and in soul can bind.
--Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Love will find its way Thro' paths where wolves would fear to prey.
--George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.
--Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
If love were what the rose is,
And I were like the leaf,
Our lives would grow together
In sad or singing weather.
--Algernon Swinburne (1837-1909)
Marriage - The fusion of two hearts - the union of two lives - the coming together of two tributaries.
--Peter Marshall
Wedlock - the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.
--Beatrice Campbell (1865-1940)
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
--Ellen Key (1849-1926)
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
--Louis K. Anspacher
No happiness is like unto it, no love so great as that of man and wife, no such comfort as a sweet wife.
--Robert Burton (1576-1640)
The secret of happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your best friends.
--Robert Quillen
The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
--John Selden (1584-1654)
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.
--Brickner
Who loves the rain and loves his home, and looks on life with quiet eyes, him will I follow through the storm and at his hearth-fire keep me warm.
--Frances Shaw (1872-1937)
In love-making, as in the other arts, those do it best who cannot tell how it is done.
--James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937)
Sex is the great amateur art. The professional, male or female, is frowned upon. He or she misses the whole point and spoils the show.
--David Cort (b. 1904)
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation...
--Henry Miller (1891-1980)
Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling.
--Madonna (b. 1958)
I am convinced that happy, guiltless, and lusty intercourse stimulates the circulation and digestion, gets all the glands going, and is the best physical medicine in the world.
--Alan Watts (1915-1973)
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