99 Lovely Quotes

1.  A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. Saint Basil
2. Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas. Dale Evans
3. A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
4. If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. Mother Teresa
5. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Buddha
6. The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. George Bernard Shaw
7. The greatest pleasure of life is love. Temple, William
8. Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position. Christopher Marlowe
9. Love cannot save you from your own fate. Jim Morrison
10. A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. George Jean Nathan
11. Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms. Khalil Gibran
12. If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert
13. It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. Voltaire
14. Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. Erich Fromm
15. There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. Oscar Wilde
16. The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. Zig Ziglar
17. You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache orrheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength. Adams, Henry
18. I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman. Elizabeth I
19. The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time. Julia Child
20. Sex without love is merely healthy exercise. Robert A. Heinlein
21. Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god? Friedrich Nietzsche
22. A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. Brendan Francis
23. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it.  (Song of Solomon 8:7) Bible
24. This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November. Mitt Romney
25. The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end. Benjamin Disraeli
26. The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. Jean Racine
27. Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. Sigmund Freud
28. We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
29. All love is vanquished by a succeeding love. Ovid
30. This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. Rumi
31. 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
32. I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump. Zora Neale Hurston
33. I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. Theodore Dreiser
34. Love is the answer, and you know that for sure Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow. John Lennon
35. Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. Bill Cosby
36. Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? Christopher Marlowe
37. Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. Plato
38. The course of true love never did run smooth. William Shakespeare
39. The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music. Michael Jackson
40. Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. Mahatma Gandhi
41. What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself. Kelly Brook
42. Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. John Dryden
43. If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question? Lily Tomlin
44. No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return. Plato
45. Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Garrison Keillor
46. More than kisses, letters mingle souls. John Donne
47. The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves. Albert Camus
48. Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Ann Landers
49. There is no sincerer love than the love of food. George Bernard Shaw
50. You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time. Jimi Hendrix
51. Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil. Friedrich Nietzsche
52. If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants. Lao Tzu
53. Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery
54. The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. Brian Tracy
55. Love is very real, you will find it someday, but it has one enemy-and that's life.  Unknown
56. Look your best - who said love is blind? Mae West
57. People everywhere love Windows. Bill Gates
58. A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. Stendhal
59. Love is blind. Geoffrey Chaucer
60. The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants. Johnny Depp
61. Take away love and our earth is a tomb. Robert Browning
62. There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen. Wayne Dyer
63. Love is metaphysical gravity. R. Buckminster Fuller
64. Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James A. Baldwin
65. A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens
66. Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. Coleridge, Samuel T.
67. Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it. Ray Bradbury
68. Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. Helen Rowland
69. Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. Francis of Assisi
70. One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. Paulo Coelho
71. I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. Julius Caesar
72. There is nothing I love as much as a good fight. Franklin D. Roosevelt
73. Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
74. If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. Khalil Gibran
75. A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. H. L. Mencken
76. Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power. Ovid
77. Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. H. L. Mencken
78. Love is what the heart needs.  Unknown
79. Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise. Leo Buscaglia
80. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. Oscar Wilde
81. We can only learn to love by loving. Iris Murdoch
82. 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
83. Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. Mae West
84. I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love. Charlie Sheen
85. If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. Leo Tolstoy
86. Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. William Shakespeare
87. Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
88. I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites. Nelson Mandela
89. Do all things with love. Og Mandino
90. Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. Javan
91. It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
92. A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. Rupert Brooke
93. Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. David Grayson
94. The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. Vincent Van Gogh
95. For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. John Burroughs
96. If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain! Marie de France
97. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything. Katharine Hepburn
98. The woman cries before the wedding, the man after.  Proverb
99. The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one. Honore de Balzac