Love

"Love is being stupid together."

Paul Ambroise Valéry

Love

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Feminists have turned the Love Boat into the Titanic."

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Love

Woman and Man

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Married love is a stream that, after a certain length of time, sinks into the earth and flows underground. Something is there, but one does not know what. Only the vegetation shows that there is still water."

Gerald Branan "Thoughts in a Dry Season: A Miscellany"

Love

Marriage

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

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Love

Marriage

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnets from the Portugues"

Love

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Human

Love

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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"

Love

Marriage

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Gustave Flaubert "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"

Health and Alcohol

Love

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

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Love

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Anita Brookner

Love

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Zelda Fitzgerald letter to her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life and Death

Love

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Elie Wiesel

Love

Various

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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

Love

Success and Fame

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Bhartihari

Dreams and Desires

Love

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Mignon McLaughin

Intellect, Judgement

Love

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

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Love

Marriage

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love."

Terence "Andria"

Love

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Bertolt Brecht "Mother Courage and Her Children"

Love

Peace and War

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Love is the reason you were born."

Dorothy Fields

Love

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Mason Cooley "City Aphorisms"

Love

Pain and Tears

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Mason Cooley "City Aphorisms"

Love

Manners and Ethics

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Saint-Exupery-Antoine-de

Love

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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"

Love

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Love

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Love

Rating: 4.17 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Love

Youth and Age

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Pierre Corneille "Titus and Berenice"

Egoism

Love

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

André Gide

Human

Love

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

Stendhal "The Charterhouse of Parma"

Love

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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."

Stendhal "De l'Amour"

Love

Memory

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Klare Provine

Happiness

Love

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Sayings in Prose"

Love

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Pierre Corneille "Polyeucte"

God and Religion

Love

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Anthony de Mello

Law and Crime

Love

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Victor Hugo

Life and Death

Love

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Willa Cather "Death Comes for the Archbishop"

Love

Various

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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"

Health and Alcohol

Love

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Manners are love in a cool climate."

Quentin Crisp "Manners from Heaven"

Love

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Woody Allen

Love

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Reason and love are sworn enemies."

Pierre Corneille

Intellect, Judgement

Love

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

William Shakespeare

Love

Rating: 7.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

May Sarton

Law and Crime

Love

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"

Love

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

John Barrymore

Beauty and Ugliness

Love

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Allan K. Chalmers

Happiness

Love

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

E.Y. Harburg "Finian's Rainbow"

Love

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Love

Nature and Animals

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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

Art and Culture

Love

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)