Famous Quotes and Proverbs about Love

The honeymoon developed and the necessary adjustments took place. Stewart Edward White Arizona Nights
Mark Twain Riverboat Captain Marriages are what the parties to them alone really know them to be. Mark Twain Sketches New and Old
The laws of Love are of force above all others; they abrogate not only the law of human friendship, but the law Divine itself Giovanni Boccaccio Decameron
S/he loved too well to love wisely.
“Isn’t marriage your vocation? Isn’t it what you’re all brought up for?” Edith Wharton House of Mirth *Note - Wharton's House of Mirth is particularly rich in famous quotes for lovers.
Poverty simplifies book-keeping Edith Wharton House of Mirth
If my darling should depart
And search the skies for prouder friends, God forbid my angry heart In other love should seek amends
Love requires a willingness to change.
An Italian Prince, rich and the real thing, wanted to marry her; but just at the critical moment a good-looking step-son turned up. Edith Wharton House of Mirth
A woman has a way of thinking most clearly and lucidly when the man has stopped thinking.
You're nothing short of my everything. Ralph Block
When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness. Amy Lowell ...Famous Quotes, continued.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. Karen Sunde
The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life. Sir Hugh Walpole
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voiceThen, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart. Robert Sexton
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love. Sophocles
Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire... ACSwinburne
Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end. Germaine De Stael
Love is a dream that comes alive when we meet.
I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path. Andre Gide
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Sayings from Lao Tzu
A simple I love you means more than money. Frank Sinatra
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. Sam Keen
Within you I lose myself; without you I find myself wanting to become lost again.
When a heart finds another, what's a cloud more or less in the sky?
Wolf and Page
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. Mark Twain
To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed. There is no remedy for love but to love more. Henry David Thoreau
The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze.
The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
Josiah G. Holland
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain signing to it...you and you alone make me feel that I am alive...Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. George Moore
Paradise is always where love dwells. Jean Paul Frichter
My heart is ever at your service. William Shakespeare Leave Famous Quotes page and Visit the Shakespeare page?
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Famous quotes from Mark Twain
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
Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Elizabeth Browning We are collecting more Famous Quotes all the time, return often.
Little children, love one another.
Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. J. Isham
It's so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it's not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it In our hands. Jaka
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. Mignon McLaughlin
If you love me only in my dreams, let me be asleep forever.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, I would have the whole night sky in the palm of my hand. I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves. Rumi
I am my beloved, and my beloved is me. A proverb from the Song of Solomon
Her breath is like honey spiced with cloves, Her mouth delicious as a ripened mango. Srzgarakarika
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heavenAnd when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together, and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. Ivan Panin
All love is sweet, given or returned. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. Thomas Fuller
“Of course men will stampede into marriage in this hyeh Western country, where a woman is a scanty thing.” Owen Wister Jimmyjohn Boss
“I wonder if men seem as similar in making love as women do in receiving it?” Owen Wister Lady Baltimore ... end, Famous Quotes.
More famous quotes, for instance, Shakespeare's take on love, can be found throughout Love You Love Quotes.
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