| Love Quotations: "Love is..." |
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| What is love? Read what some thinkers have to say on the subject. |
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it
darts away." - Dorothy Parker
"Love is friendship set on fire." - unknown
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing." - Goethe
"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia." - H.L. Mencken
"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really
is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything,
you risk even more." - Erica Jong
"Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions." - Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
- by Oliver Wendell Holmes -
"Maybe love is like luck. You have to go all the way to find it." - Robert Mitchum
"Love is like war: Easy to begin but hard to end." - Anonymous
"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other." - Rainer
Maria Rilke
"Where love is, no room is too small." - Talmud
"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Mark Twain
"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." - Karen Sunde
"A love song is just a caress set to music." - Sigmund Romberg
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." - Peter Ustinov
"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever." -
unknown
"In the final analysis, love is the only reflection of man's worth." - Bill Wundram, Iowa Quad
Cities Times
"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania." - Dorothy Parker
"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not
loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be
happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to
be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're
getting this down." - Woody Allen, Love and Death
| Love Quote: Famous Celebrity - Find a Famous Love Quote |
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| Find a quote from a well-known writer, thinker, or celebrity on the subject of love. |
There is a time for work. And a time for love. That leaves no other time." - Coco Chanel
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu
"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt
with the heart." - Helen Keller -
"But you won't need no harem, honey
When I'm by your side
And you won't need no camel, no no
When I take you for a ride" - lyrics to "Midnight at the Oasis" by David Nichtern, sung by Maria
Muldaur
"Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly." - Mae West
"Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases." - Milton
Berle
"There will be sex after death, we just won't be able to feel it." - Lily Tomlin
"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Mark Twain
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to
divide it with." - Mark Twain
"Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you
laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat." - Joanne Woodward
"I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find
a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so
already, you are wasting your life." - D. H. Lawrence
"Maybe love is like luck. You have to go all the way to find it." - Robert Mitchum
"If I know what love is, it is because of you." - Herman Hesse
"All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love." - Marquis de Lafayette
"Thou art to me a delicious torment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you would be loved, love and be lovable." - Benjamin Franklin, "Poor Richard's Almanac," 1755
"And in the end, the love you take
Is equal to the love you make." - John Lennon and Paul McCartney
| Love Quotations: On Kissing |
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| A kiss can say so much.... |
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know." - Mistinguett
"At last you kissed me, I could die in waves again, and one good lick of quicksand took...." - Heather McHugh
"I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing the hands of ladies. After all, one must start somewhere." - Sacha Guitry
"The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss. - unknown
"The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze." - unknown
"There's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me." - Gretchen Kemp
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| Love Quotations: On First Love |
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| Quotes on the meaning and emotions of a first love |
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First romance, first love, is something so special to all of us, both emotionally and physically, that it touches our lives and enriches them forever." - Rosemary Rogers
"First love is a little foolish and a lot of curiosity."- George Bernard Shaw
"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end." - Benjamin Disraeli
"We never forget those who make us blush." - Jean-François De La Harpe
Young love is from the earth, and late love is from heaven. Turkish Proverb
"First love is dangerous only when it is also the last." - Branislav Nusic
"Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away." - Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
| Love Quotes: Tender Love Quotes |
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| Quotes that express the tenderness of love |
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Love Quotes/Tender: "The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
Love Quotes/Tender: "When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out." - Elizabeth Bowen
Love Quotes/Tender: "There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves." - Alice Adams
Love Quotes/Tender: "The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable." - Victor Hugo
Love Quotes/Tender: "The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart." - Josiah G. Holland
Love Quotes/Tender:
"Love puts the fun in together,
The sad in apart,
The hope in tomorrow,
The joy in the heart." - Anonymous
Love Quotes/Tender: "You don't love a woman because she's beautiful; she is beautiful because you love her." - Anonymous
Love Quotes/Tender: "You're nothing short of my everything." - Ralph Block