Quotes
Quotes about Love
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. -Thomas Carlyle.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. -Henri-Frederic Amiel.
The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or piece of prose he or she really loves...is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital. When two of God's children join hands and hearts, all of Heaven rejoices. Thanks to a subscriber - Pamela Watkins -George Steiner.
The heart that loves is always young. -Greek Proverb.
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day. -Unknown-.
Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart And try to love the questions themselves. -RAINER MARIA RILKE.
In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love. -Baha'U'Uah.
A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. -Mother Teresa.
I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
What is a hero without love for mankind.
No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the hustler but the whittler.
When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives.
The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls! Ha ha ha! I saw a girl yesterday, she was pregnant. Had her whole belly showin' and ya' know what she had painted on it? "Love Child"! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world...
They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With their jangling keys, nasty suits, revolting beards, moustaches and tinted spectacles, estate agents roam the land causing perturbation and despair. If you try and kill them, you're put in prison: if you try and talk to them, you vomit. There's only one thing worse than an estate agent but at least that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed. Estate agents. Love them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.
And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wall.
But thou, O hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whisper'd promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail!
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
