The cleverest amongst you is he who is the loyal apostle of life, the true disciple of existence, the devout follower of love.
– Mehmet Murat ildan
The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.
– Quentin Crisp
The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other downThe swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While secret laughter titter'd round the placeThe bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,The matrons glance that would those looks reproveThese were thy charms, sweet village sports like these,With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to pleaseThese were thy bowers their cheerful influence shed,These were thy charms -- but all these charms are fled.
– Oliver Goldsmith
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
– John Cheever
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
– Don Barthelme
The Earth loves us through its gravity and this love is ideal: It neither sticks to us nor let us to fly to the unknown darkness!
The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
– 1 Peter 47-8 Bible
The energy of love, as the mother nature of energy, is neither created nor detroyed, so make sure you direct it to the meant recepients. Or else, eternally it shall live inside you, either you're with them or not..
– The wise Pharoah Moe
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.
– George Orwell
The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.
– Donald G. Smith
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
– George Bernard Shaw
The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
– Andre Malraux
The first duty of love is to listen.
– Paul Tillich
The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat.
– S. S. Biddle
The fishhook catches the fish; the truth catches the lie; the death catches the life; the love catches the hate!
The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might; to eat with apple tart.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
The giving of love is an education in itself.
– Roosevelt, Eleanor
The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.
– Publilius Syrus
The good to others kindness show, And from them no return exact; The best and greatest men, they know, Thus ever nobly love to act.*
– Mahabharata
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
– Allan K. Chalmers
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
– Joseph Addison
The greater love is a mother's then comes a dog's then a sweetheart's.
– Polish Proverb
The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.
– George Herbert Walker Bush
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
– Hubert Humphrey
