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1. "Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it."

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Quotations about: Marriage

2. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Sonnets from the Portugues"

3. "There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations about: Human

4. "The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "Love in the Time of Cholera"

Quotations about: Marriage

5. "The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet."

Gustave Flaubert, "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

6. "Men give love to get sex, Women give sex to get love."

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Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

7. "Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists."

Anita Brookner

8. "I don't want to live - I want to love first, and live incidentally."

Zelda Fitzgerald, letter to her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quotations about: Life and Death

9. "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."

Elie Wiesel

Quotations about: Various

10. "In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people."

Judy Garland

Quotations about: Success and Fame

11. "Love is the crocodile on the river of desire."

Bhartihari

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

12. "The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime."

Mignon McLaughin

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

13. "Of course a platonic relationship is possible - but only between husband and wife."

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Quotations about: Marriage

14. "Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love."

Terence, "Andria"

15. "War is like love, it always finds a way."

Bertolt Brecht, "Mother Courage and Her Children"

Quotations about: Peace and War

16. "Love is the reason you were born."

Dorothy Fields

17. "Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

18. "Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics -:- Various

19. "Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

20. "The heart is blind; but love is not blind. None of the gods is so discriminating."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

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21. "In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

22. "Love must be as much a light as a flame."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

23. "The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: Youth and Age

24. "Self-love is the source of all our other loves."

Pierre Corneille, "Titus and Berenice"

Quotations about: Egoism

25. "It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."

André Gide

Quotations about: Human

26. "A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth!"

Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal), "The Charterhouse of Parma"

Quotations about: Youth and Age

27. "In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future."

Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal), "De l'Amour"

Quotations about: Memory

28. "The happiest couples are those who spell "us" with a capital "you.""

Klare Provine

Quotations about: Happiness

29. "You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Sayings in Prose"

30. "I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself."

Pierre Corneille, "Polyeucte"

Quotations about: God and Religion

31. "Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them."

Anthony de Mello

Quotations about: Law and Crime

32. "Life is a flower of which love is the honey."

Victor Hugo

Quotations about: Life and Death

33. "Where there is great love there are always miracles."

Willa Cather, "Death Comes for the Archbishop"

Quotations about: Various

34. "Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off."

Raymond Chandler, "The Long Goodbye"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

35. "Manners are love in a cool climate."

Quentin Crisp, "Manners from Heaven"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

36. "Love is the answer - but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions."

Woody Allen

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

37. "Reason and love are sworn enemies."

Pierre Corneille

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

38. "If you do love me, you will find me out."

William Shakespeare

39. "It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!"

May Sarton

Quotations about: Law and Crime

40. "We can't command our love, but we can our actions."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"

41. "Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock."

John Barrymore

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Woman and Man

42. "The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

Allan K. Chalmers

Quotations about: Happiness -:- Optimism and Hope

43. "When I?m not near the girl I love, I love the girl I?m near."

E.Y. Harburg, "Finian's Rainbow"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

44. "Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand of it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

45. "When I wished to sing of love it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow it was transformed for me into love."

Franz Schubert

Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Sorrow and Nostalgia

46. "Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love."

Ellen Key, "The Morality of Woman"

Quotations about: Marriage

47. "We can only learn to love by loving."

Iris Murdoch

48. "Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman.... It is only man’s egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities."

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, "Venus in Furs"

Quotations about: Woman and Man -:- Manners and Ethics

49. "A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love."

Franz Grillparzer, "Sappho"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

50. "Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship."

Franz Grillparzer, "Sappho"

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility -:- Richness and Money

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