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

Love Quotes ( legends)

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Friedrich Nietzsche 

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Lao Tzu 

Comfort, Fit, Scholar Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Henry David Thoreau 

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Hubert H. Humphrey

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Robert Frost 

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 

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

Morihei Ueshiba

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

Woody Allen

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.

Do what you love; you'll be better at it. It sounds pretty simple, but you'd be surprised how many people don't get this one right away.

LL Cool J 

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.

George Washington Carver 

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Thomas Carlyle 

Humor, Heart, True

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

Edgar Winter 

Work, Pay, Imagine

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

Simone de Beauvoir 

Same, Serious, Sense

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

Jackie Kennedy 

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

John Ruskin 

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

Bertrand Russell

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.

Erich Fromm 

Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.

Eden Ahbez 

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

Charles Baudelaire 

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

Emma Goldman 

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

Bertrand Russell 

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

Love Quotes (Legends)

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Muhammad Ali 

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche 

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

Khalil Gibran 

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Erich Fromm 

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

Joseph Campbell 

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Washington Irving 

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

Erich Fromm 

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin 

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 

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

Jimi Hendrix 

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer 

Success, Happiness, Successful Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Ayn Rand 

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Paulo Coelho

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Aristotle 

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

Henny Youngman 

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Science, Men, Wonder I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau 

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein 

One is very crazy when in love.

Sigmund Freud 

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Khalil Gibran 

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Friedrich Nietzsche 

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao Tzu 

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Benjamin Franklin 

Marriage Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Satchel Paige 

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Benjamin Franklin 

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

John Lennon 

Men who think 

that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

Marilyn Monroe 

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

Leo Buscaglia