Quotes
Quotes about Love
Love is blind, but friendship is clairvoyant.
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]
Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.
It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
The love of glory gives an immense stimulus. [Lat., Immensum gloria calcar habet.]
While many a glowworm in the shade Lights up her love torch.
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood, Fear God. Honour the king.
The best way to know God is to love many things.
We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us.
Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above! Beneath the sliding sun thou runn'st thy race, Dost fairest shine, and best become thy place; For thee the winds their eastern blasts forbear, Thy mouth reveals the spring, and opens all the year; Thee, goddess, thee, the storms of winter fly, Earth smiles with flowers renewing, laughs the sky.
For gold in phisik is a cordial; Therefore he lovede gold in special.
Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break. [Lat., Aurum per medios ire satellites Et perrumpere amat saxa potentius Ictu fulmineo.]
Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured. [Lat., Aurea nunc vere sunt saecula; plurimus auto Venit honos; auro concilatur amor.]
(Portia:) A quarrel ho! already! What's the matter? (Gratiano:) About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring That she did give me, whose posy was For all the world like cutler's poetry Upon a knife--'Love me, and leave me not.'
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love: but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
O, then, what graces in my love do dwell That he hath turned a heaven unto a hell!
Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's presentâlove, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasureâthe wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.
We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
Greatnesse on goodnesse loves to slide, not stand, And leaves, for fortune's ice, vertue's firme land.
Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime, Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madded to crime?
