love quotes -legends

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Thomas Fuller 

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Charles Caleb Colton 

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Jane Austen 

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Herman Melville 

I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.

Drew Barrymore 

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

Paul McCartney 

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Helen Rowland 

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler 

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Helen Hayes 

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

Michelangelo

I love my son and am proud of my son.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

George Orwell 

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

Madonna Ciccone

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Ella Fitzgerald 

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

Our first and last love is self-love.

Christian Nestell Bovee 

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 

I'm a romantic,

 and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.

Freddy Fender 

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Douglas Horton 

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

Moliere 

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

Meir Kahane

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

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

W. H. Auden 

Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

Miley Cyrus 

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Lord Byron 

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

James A. Baldwin 

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Emmet Fox 

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Vincent Van Gogh 

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Cesare Pavese