Love

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Francis Bacon

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.
Lord Byron

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
W. H. Auden

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Francis Bacon

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.
Miguel De Cervantes

Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.
Sir Thomas Malory

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

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.
Edward Flaherty

Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.
Sir Thomas Malory

At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try.
Source Unknown

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.
D. H. Lawrence

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
Albert Einstein

Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like nobody's watching. Submitted by Jessica Brown
Anonymous

Love would never leave us alone.
Bob Marley

Life, the gift of nature Love, the gift of life A Kiss, the gift of Love.
Anonymous

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
Vincent Van Gogh

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
Henry Ward Beecher

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
Leo Buscaglia

I want to give you some love, I want to give you some good good lovin'.
Bob Marley

I have got a running stream of love you see. So no matter what stages.. they put us through, we'll never be blue.
Bob Marley

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
Turkish Proverb

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.
Australian Aboriginal Proverb

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
Latin Proverb

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.
Henry Fielding

When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach.
French Proverb

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
William Shakespeare

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh

The soul mate is what we aspire to and like to understand about us, is what we deem to be perfection, purity and endless regarding our own being.
Sorin Cerin

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love
Rev. Dale Turner

Do not cry, because we are destiny, because we are everything that can be above this world. And now, the angel of my life, please let me fly so that I can fulfil the vanity of this world, of this dream, of this nightmare that eternally took you from me.
I didn’t thought you will come now at this age and time of this Illusion of Life, but between these bars I tell you how much I love you and do not ever doubt me.
I will be yours in every moment of this life, which I give to you. .

Sorin Cerin

A kiss: To a young girl, faith; to a married woman, hope; to an old maid, charity.
V. P. Skipper

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
Anita Brookner

If you wished to be loved, love.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.
Violet Trefusis

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.
Source Unknown

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.
Swedish Proverb

These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.
John Milton

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
Dorothy Parker

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
Barbara De Angelis

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.
Vincent Van Gogh

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
Germaine De Stael

Love makes everything that is heavy light.
Thomas p Kempis

Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Louise L. Hay

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning