Charlie Woman... woe-man... whoooa-man. She was a thief, you got to believe, she stole my heart and my cat. Judy, Betty, Josie and those hot Pussycats... they made me horny, on Saturday morning... girls of cartoo-ins will leave me in ruins... I want to to be Betty's Barney. Jane... get me off this crazy thing... called love.
– So I Married an Axe Murderer
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.
– Roger Rosenblatt
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
– Harold S. Hulbert
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
– Confucious
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
– Jacques Maritain
Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.
– Luther Standing Bear
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.
– Will Durant
Close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be.
– Ted Rall
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
– John Donne
Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.
– Jalal ud-Din Rumi
Comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.
– King Soloman
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
– Kahlil Gibran
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
– Mao Zedong
Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.
– Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)
Comtemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen and then ask yourself, What should be the reward of such sacrifices... If ye love wealth better than freedom, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands that feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
– Samuel Adams
Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference now to one, now to another.
– La Rochefoucauld
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
– Seneca
Convenience will never outweigh love.
– Justin Chase Campbell
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
– Harriet Van Horne
Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having.
– Juvenal
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.
Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney.
– James Burke
Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.
– John Gay