99 Sweet Lovely Quotes

1.  We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
2. All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership. Ann Landers
3. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. Mother Teresa
4. Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain. Billie Holiday
5. I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. Ayn Rand
6. Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. Milan Kundera
7. Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. H. L. Mencken
8. 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
9. Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. John Ciardi
10. Love is a great beautifier. Alcott, Louisa May
11. If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours if they don't they never were. Richard Bach
12. The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other. Mark Hopkins
13. A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. Joseph Joubert
14. A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning. Brad Henry
15. I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me. Angelina Jolie
16. We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. Benjamin Disraeli
17. It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
18. Love can do much, but duty more. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
19. Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. Bruce Lee
20. All you need is love. John Lennon
21. When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. Blaise Pascal
22. Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. Herman Melville
23. I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know. Angelina Jolie
24. A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. Max Muller
25. I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it. Mike Tyson
26. Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then. Anthony Hopkins
27. Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. Bertrand Russell
28. If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. Michel de Montaigne
29. The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
30. Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. Pope, Alexander
31. For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. Judy Garland
32. 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
33. You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete. Keith Sweat
34. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. Thomas Paine
35. Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. Leo Buscaglia
36. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Buddha
37. Take away love and our earth is a tomb. Robert Browning
38. If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. Maya Angelou
39. Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. Gordon, George
40. 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
41. 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
42. If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life. Tim Tebow
43. 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
44. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. Bruce Lee
45. It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. Martin Luther King, Jr.
46. Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C. S. Lewis
47. Respect is what we owe love, what we give. Philip James Bailey
48. If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family. Jasmine Guy
49. What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? Friedrich Nietzsche
50. Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off. Raymond Chandler
51. Who so loves believes the impossible. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
52. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. Oscar Wilde
53. Love and work... work and love, that's all there is. Sigmund Freud
54. About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all. Rita Mae Brown
55. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. Rumi
56. 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
57. There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies. La Rochefoucauld, Fran?ois
58. To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. Bertrand Russell
59. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle
60. Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. Anais Nin
61. Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good. Woody Allen
62. Forgiveness is the final form of love. Reinhold Niebuhr
63. I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. Marilyn Monroe
64. If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. Francis Quarles
65. Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. William Congreve
66. Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love. Honore de Balzac
67. I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. Arthur Rubinstein
68. I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it. Edgar Winter
69. Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
70. Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. Thomas Merton
71. Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. Mahatma Gandhi
72. We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
73. 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
74. I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump. Zora Neale Hurston
75. I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change. Nicholas Sparks
76. Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. French proverb
77. All love is lost but upon God alone. William Dunbar
78. Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. Mae West
79. Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love this is the eternal rule. Buddha
80. When love is not madness, it is not love. Pedro Calderon de la Barca
81. One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. Oscar Wilde
82. It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. Margaret Thatcher
83. The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life. Lydia M. Child
84. We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it. John Lennon
85. Choose your love, Love your choice. Thomas S. Monson
86. 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
87. 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. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
88. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. Theodore Roosevelt
89. People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. Ken Kesey
90. The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me. Oprah Winfrey
91. When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. Honore de Balzac
92. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin
93. Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, < Shakespeare, William
94. Love is not consolation. It is light. Friedrich Nietzsche
95. Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end. Kris Kristofferson
96. It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are. Emma Watson
97. We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love. Sigmund Freud
98. Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. P. J. O'Rourke
99. Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to. Tammy Wynette