They tell me he fell in love with a pair of blue eyes – then made the mistake of marrying the whole girl. ~ Joey Adams
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. ~ Victor Hugo
“Tis better to have loved and lost,” Than to marry and be bossed. ~ L.S. McCandles
In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Love a little more each day. ~ Madison
Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. ~ Maguerite Blessington
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. ~ H. L. Mencken
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever. ~ Anonymous
She was torn between love and booty. ~ Faith Baldwin
To be loved, be lovable. ~ Ovid
Love: two minds without a single thought. ~ Philip Barry
‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. ~ Nicholas Murray Butler
Paper napkins never return from a laundry – nor love from a trip to the law courts. ~ John Barrymore
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply give you courage. ~ Lao Tzu
Neighbor: one whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and does all he knows how to make us disobedient. ~ Ambrose Bierce
A dog is the only thing on this earth that loves you more than he loves himself. ~ Josh Billings
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ~ Oscar Wilde
The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. ~ Auguste Rodin
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ~ H. L. Mencken
People in Hollywood can’t face the truth in themselves or in others. This town is filled with people who make adventure pictures and who have never left this place. They make religious pictures and they haven’t been in a church or a synagogue in years. They make pictures about love and they haven’t been in love-ever. ~ Richard Brooks
Love is like measles; you can get it only once, and the later in life it occurs, the tougher it goes. ~ Josh Billings
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell, The reason why I cannot tell; But his alone I know full well, I do not love thee, Doctor Fell. ~ Thomas Brown
Love is said to be blind, but I know lots of fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I can. ~ Josh Billings
That love is all there is, is all we know of love. ~ Emily Dickinson
It is awful work, this love, and prevents all a man’s projects of good or glory. ~ James Branch Cabell
What the world really needs in more love and less paperwork. ~ Pearl Bailey
For a man to become a poet he must be in love, or miserable. ~ James Branch Cabell
Love is a pleasing folly; ambition is a serious stupidity. ~ Nicholas Chamfort
The loves of some people are but the results of good suppers. ~Nicholas Chamfort
Where there is love, there is joy. ~ Mother Teresa
On the whole, I haven’t found men unduly loath to say, “I love you.” The real trick is to get them to say, “Will you marry me?” ~ Ilka Chase
There are but two objects in marriage, love or money. If you marry for love, you will certainly have some very happy days, and probably many very uneasy ones; if for money, you will have no happy days and probably no uneasy ones. ~ Lord Chesterfield
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. ~ G. K. Chesterton
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. ~ Maurice Chevalier
I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women. ~ Christina, Queen of Sweden
Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl. No superior alternative has yet been found. ~ Winston Churchill
Oh, I’m in love with the janitor’s boy,
And the janitor’s boy loves me;
He’s going to hunt for a desert isle
In our geography. ~ Nathalia Crane
Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope. ~ Josh Billings.
One should always learn to love oneself; that is the only lifelong romance. ~ Gabriele D’Annunzio
Love is an ocean of emotions, entirely surrounded by expenses. ~ Thomas Robert, Lord Dewar
How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven, and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet – it’s gone. ~ Marlene Dietrich
Just love life and it will love you back. ~ Madeline
In love, she who gives her portrait promises the original. ~ C.M. Dupuy
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Love your neighbor-but don’t pull down your hedge. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same World. ~ Wayne W. Dyer
Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession. ~ Benjamin Franklin
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that! ~ Tom Lehrer
You’ve got to love what’s lovable, and hate what’s hateable. It takes brains to see the difference. ~ Robert Frost
Hate the sin and love the sinner. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
I love my fellow creatures-I do all the good I can- Yet everybody says I’m such a disagreeable man! ~ William Schwenck Gilbert
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, “I love you.” ~ Billy Graham
The only way to understand a woman is to love her-and then it isn’t necessary to understand her. ~ Sydney Harris
The voyage of love is all the sweeter for an outside stateroom and a seat at the captain’s table. ~ Henry S. Haskins
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor. ~ Eric Hoffer
No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves. ~ Edgar Watson Howe
Friend: one who knows all about you and loves you just the same. ~ Elbert Hubbard
The feller that puts off marryin’ till he can support a wife ain’t very much in love. ~ Frank McKinney Hubbard
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. ~ Harold S. Hubert
A mighty pain to love it is, and ’tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all pains, the greatest pain it is to love, but love in vain. ~ Abraham Cowley
Love is a wonderful thing and highly desirable in marriage. ~ Rupert Hughes
Love is the most subtle form of self-interest. ~ Holbrook Jackson
If you want to read about love and marriage you’ve got to buy two separate books. ~ Alan King
They say love’s like the measles-all the worse when it comes late in life. ~ Douglas Jerrold
Love doesn’t make the world go’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. ~ Franklin P. Jones
The way to love anything is to realized that it might be lost. ~ G. K. Chesterton
At eighteen, one adores at once; at twenty, one loves; at thirty, one desires; at forty, one reflects. ~ Paul de Kock
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. ~ Stephen Leacock
Tell me, George [Gershwin], if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again? ~ Oscar Levant
If you wished to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. ~ Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton
If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love your; but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you. ~ Don Marquis
You can always get someone to love you-even if you have to do it yourself. ~ Thomas L. Masson
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite life unrequited love. ~ Charlie Brown
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity-romantic love and gunpowder. ~ Andre Maurois
