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| ROMANCE QUOTES AND QUOTATIONS | Author |
| God made all the creatures, and gave them our love and our fear, To give sign we and they are his children, one family here. | - Robert Browning |
| Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance. | - Anonymous |
| Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly? | - Emily Bront‰ |
| L'amour vient de l'aveuglement, l'amitie de la connaissance. (Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.) | - Comte de Bussy-Rabutin |
| The transcendent importance of love and goodwill in all human relations is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and society. | - George David Birkhoff |
| Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. | - Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Much of our love is confined to mere lip service and dreams of good deeds accomplished, but true love must be expressed in unselfish acts of kindness that bring others closer to our Heavenly Father. | - Jack H. Goaslind, Jr. |
| We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. | - Agnes Repplier |
| All's love, yet all's law. | - Robert Browning |
| Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. | - |
| A love that defies all logic is sometimes the most logical thing in the world. | - Anonymous |
| I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad. | - Anacreon |
| Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. | - Nora Roberts |
| Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. | - Joan Collins |
| A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished. | - Zsa Zsa Gabor |
| There are two times in every man's life when he is thoroughly happy; just after he has met his first love and just after he has parted from his last one. | - H. L. Mencken |
| Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove::O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,That looks on tempests and is never shaken.It is the star to | - William Shakespeare |
| Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. | - William Shakespeare. |
| Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune. | - Tony Snow |
| Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you." | - Erich Fromm |
| If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater. | - Anonymous |
| With love and patience, nothing is impossible. | - Daisaku Ikeda |
| If you want something very, very badly,Let it go free.If it comes back to you, It's yours forever.If it doesn't, it was never yours to begin with. | - Anonymous |
| The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. | - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
| Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. | - Henry Fielding |
| Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness has been removed. | - Cullen Hightower |
| Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. | - Rainer Maria Rilke |
| At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife's hatred, they are borne each of them apart. | - Empedocles |
| See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!O that I were a glove upon that hand,That I might touch that cheek! | - William Shakespeare |
| How does one measure time? No, not in day, months, or years. It is measured by the most precious of all things:: Love. Without which all beings and things whether brave and/or beautiful would perish. | - |
| Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. | - |
| Love may conquer all, but it needs time as its field general. | - Anonymous |
| The best proof of love is trust. | - Dr. Joyce Brothers |
| Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. | - William Shakespeare |
| When my love swears that she is made of truth I do believe her, though I know she lies, That she might think me some untutor'd youth, Unlearned in the world's false subtleties. Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young | - William Shakespeare |
| I used to think that being nice to people and feeling nice was loving people. Now I know it isn't. Love is the most immense unselfishness and it is so big I've never touched it. | - Florence Allshorn |
| It is impossible to love and be wise. | - Francis Bacon |
| When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out. | - Elizabeth Bowen |
| All love at first, like generous wine,Ferments and frets until `tis fine;But when `tis settled on the lee,And from th' impurer matter free,Becomes the richer still the older,And proves the pleasanter the colder. | - Samuel Butler, the older |
| For money has a power aboveThe stars and fate, to manage love. | - Samuel Butler, the older |
| Freely we serve,Because we freely love, as in our willTo love or not; in this we stand or fall. | - John Milton |
| Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love noneWe love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done! | - Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore |
| When I opened the door, there I would see a man, sometimes two, ill-clothed, ill-fed, ill-schooled. Generally, such a visitor held in his hand the familiar cap. His hair would be tousled, his face unshaven. The question was always the same:: "Could | - Thomas S. Monson |
| Knowing that we should love is not enough. But when knowledge is applied through service, love can secure for us the blessings of heaven. | - David B. Haight |
| Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen. | - Anonymous |
| Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air. | - Robert Lee Frost |
| The only person to whom your love belongs is the one to whom your love belongs. | - Robert Scheid |
| No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. | - Robert Burton |
| If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God:: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly | - Saint Augustine |
| Who ever loves, if he do not proposeThe right true end of love, he's one that goesTo sea for nothing but to make him sick. | - John Donne |
| Love can cure heartbreaks, misfortune, or tragedy. It is the eternal companion. | - Anonymous |
| Some morning it is likely that the headlines of the world will scream forth the news that New York has been bombed. As tragic as this will be, it will nevertheless accomplish the deep unity that Christians should have. It is a sad commentary that o | - James P. De Wolfe, D.D. |
| Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others . . . And your very flesh shall be a great poem. | - Walt Whitman |
| Love your enemies, for they will tell you your faults. | - Benjamin Franklin |
| Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards. | - R. A. Dickson |
| You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough. | - Ed Howe |
| I love everything that's old:: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. | - Oliver Goldsmith |
| He who loves best his fellow-manIs loving God the holiest way he can. | - Alice Cary |
| Lord, it is my chief complaint, That my love is weak and faint;Yet I love thee and adore,Oh for grace to love thee more! | - William Cowper |
| I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week. | - George Gordon, Lord Byron |
| To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God. | - Meher Baba |
| The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought. In all our heart; that is, in all our understanding without erring. In all our soul; that is, in all our will without gainsaying. In all our th | - Richard Rolle |
| Learn to love good books. There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing. | - Robert Green Ingersoll |
| France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door. ÿ | - Barbara Cartland |
| Love is a gift of God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world. | - David B. Haight |
| Love is a madness most discreet | - William Shakespeare? |
| Someone has written, "Love is a verb." It requires doing - not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed. | - David B. Haight |
| Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. | - Robert Lee Frost |
| Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread!For Love is dead. | - Sir Philip Sidney |
| Love is something eternal-the aspects may change, but not the essence. There is the same diflference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is buming. The lamp was there and it is a good lamp, but n | - Vincent van Gogh |
| Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away, but love stays with us. Love is God. | - Lew Wallace |
| Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever. | - Anonymous |
| Love is like quicksilver in the hand, Leave the fingers open and it stays, Clutch it, and it darts away. Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) American writer and satirist | - Dorothy Parker |
| Love is not all:: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink. | - Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever:: I was wrong. | - Wystan Hugh Auden |
| I love life - that's my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life. | - Albert Camus |
| You say, to me-wards your affection's strong;Pray love me little, so you love me long. | - Robert Herrick |
| I love little children-and it is not a slight thing when they, who are fresh from God, love us. | - Charles Dickens |
| Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. | - Franklin P. Jones |
| Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other. | - Walter Lippmann |
| A self-centered man admitted:: "Sure, I know that the Bible says to love our neighbors as ourselves. But frankly, I don't believe that my neighbors can stand all that affection." | - Anonymous |
| The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. | - Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| Ah, some love Paris,And some Purdue.But love is an archer with a low I.Q.A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity.So I'm in love withNew York City. | - Anonymous |
| Love is not blind, it sees more not less;ÿBut because it sees more it chooses to see less. | - Anonymous |
| But love is many things, none of them logical. | - William Goldman |
| If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life? | - Anonymous |
| A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. | - Josh Billings |
| Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good. | - Felix Adler |
| There is no sincerer love than the love of food. | - George Bernard Shaw |
| The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. | - Jean Baptiste Moli‚re |
| Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star. | - Ben Jonson |
| If men and nations did reach up to God with all their hearts, war would cease. If love of God were in the heart of man, a man would have no desire to destroy his brother.There would be no dishonesty if the love of God were in the heart. If God cam | - Rex C. Reeve, Sr. |
| That man loves God who puts his own life in harmony with him, and who serves his fellow men as though his life depends upon it, as indeed it does. | - Sterling W. Sill |
| A man filled with the love of God, is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race. | - Joseph Smith, Jr. |
| Keeping the commandments of God is not a difficult burden when we do it out of love of him who has so graciously blessed us. | - Delbert L. Stapley |
| It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite points of view. How we shall experience it depends upon the way we shall come up against it:: God does not change; it is man's | - Reginald John Campbell |
| Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold? | - Francis Bacon |
| In love of home, the love of country has its rise. | - Charles Dickens |
| The love of Jesus is at once avid and generous. All that He has, all that He is, He gives; all that we are, all that we have, He takes. | - Jan van Ruysbroeck |
| He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning. | - Confucius |
| The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking. | - Dr. Samuel Johnson |
| The tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground:: 'T was therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, When pain grows | - Hester Lynch Piozzi |
| My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another:: and they have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind. | - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter. | - Anacreon |
| Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To love money is to known and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for | - Ayn Rand |
| To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. | - William Cullen Bryant |
| The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart. | - Edward Young |
| The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day and hour with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure. | - Gibbon |
| "Nothing, so it seems to me," said the stranger, "is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. . . . The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beg | - Jerome Klapka Jerome |
| I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of the sun on his untroubled forehead and closed eyelids, what I experienced was not a prayer, I do not pray, but that state of spirit at which a pra | - Ayn Rand |
| We must love one another. Only [by doing] so can our long years of toil and struggle reach full reward and we be crowned with life everlasting. | - Susa Young Gates |
| Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world. | - Mother Teresa |
| When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage. | - Bill Balance |
| Might she have loved me? just as wellShe might have hated, who can tell! | - Robert Browning |
| I was nauseous and tingly all over. . . . I was either in love or I had smallpox. | - Woody Allen |
| When you love others you aren't nervous. | - Mary Martin |
| For one human being to love another:: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for whichÿall other work is but preparation. | - Rainer Maria Rilke |
| We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. | - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies-or else? The chain reaction of evil-hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars-must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the abyss of annihilation. | - Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| We are commanded to love the Lord with all our heart, with all our might, mind, and strength, and to love our neighbors as ourselves. Our love should pass beyond the borderlines of the Church with which we are identified. | - George Albert Smith |
| We are apt to love praise, but not to deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than than. | - William Penn |
