Love Quotes

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.
– Nelson Mandela
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
– Francois Rabelais
For true love is inexhaustible the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
– Antoine De Saint-Exupery
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
– Aristotle
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
– Carl Sagan
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.
– Maximilian Schell
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
– George Bernard Shaw
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
– Andy Warhol
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
– Iris Murdoch
Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.
– Michael Jackson
Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.
– Angelina Jolie
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
– Khalil Gibran
Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.
– Michael Jordan
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
– Mother Teresa
Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
– Henry Rollins
Do you have to have a reason for loving?
– Brigitte Bardot
Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
– Henry David Thoreau
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
– Anais Nin
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
– Henry David Thoreau
Do all things with love.
– Og Mandino
Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
– Doug Coupland
Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
– Christopher Marlowe
Choose your love, Love your choice.
– Thomas S. Monson
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
– Jose Marti
But love's a malady without a cure.
– John Dryden
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
– Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
Behold, my friends, the spring is come the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!
– Sitting Bull
Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.
– Michael Jackson
Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.
– Lance Secretan
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
– Plato
At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.
– Hillary Clinton
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
– William Shakespeare
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
– Alfred A. Montapert
And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
– Peter Tosh
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
– Charles M. Schulz
All you need is love.
– John Lennon
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
– Paulo Coelho
All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.
– Jesus Christ
All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
– Ovid
Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
– Frank Sinatra
Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
– Dan Millman
Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
– Albert Ellis
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
– Dr. Joyce Brothers
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
– William Shakespeare
A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
– Mae West
A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.
– Marilyn Monroe
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
– Mignon McLaughlin
A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
– Marilyn Monroe
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
– Joseph Joubert
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
– Jesus Christ
A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.
– Lil Wayne
A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.
– Cyrano de Bergerac
A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
– Frank Morgan
A flower falls, even though we love it and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
– Dogen
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
– Max Muller
Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon.
– Dean Acheson
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
– Diane Ackerman
Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
– Ansel Adams
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
– John Adams
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
– Alfred Adler
There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.
– Mortimer Adler
I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
– Christina Aguilera
Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love.
– Mark Akenside
I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.
– Madeleine Albright
Love is a great beautifier.
– Louisa May Alcott
The mark of a true crush...is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
– Shana Alexander
Words of love, are works of love.
– William R. Alger
The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.
– Nelson Algren
Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish.
– Muhammad Ali
It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
– Fred Allen
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
– James Allen
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
– James Allen
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions.
– Woody Allen
Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best.
– Woody Allen
I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game.
– Richie Allen
If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.
– Richard Allen
When you're doing what you love to do, the money comes naturally. Maybe not at first, but eventually... if you stick with it. Do you think Bob Hope started out with a goal, I want to become a millionaire by making people laugh, then I'll retire to do what I want? I doubt it. He just did what he did best. And the money came.
– Robert G. Allen
As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
– James Lane Allen
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
– Stephen Ambrose
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
– Henri Frederic Amiel
Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
– Henri Frederic Amiel
Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
– Kingsley Amis
In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
– Tori Amos
I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That's a great feeling.
– Gillian Anderson
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
– Margaret Anderson
Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
– Greg Anderson
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.
– Greg Anderson
I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.
– Sherwood Anderson
I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
– Sherwood Anderson
Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
– Barbara de Angelis
I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.
– Barbara de Angelis
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
– Barbara de Angelis
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
– Maya Angelou
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
– Maya Angelou
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.
– Maya Angelou
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
– Maya Angelou
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
– Maya Angelou
Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
– Jean Anouilh