Quotes
Quotes on love
“The course of true love never did run smooth” (Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream) - William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet and playwright
“Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?” - Paul Newman, 1925-2008, American actor and film director
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope” - Maya Angelou, 1928- , American Poet
“Love is a better teacher than duty” - Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, theoretical physicist, philosopher and author
“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.” - Ellen Goodman, 1941-, American journalist
“A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night” - Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962, American actress, singer and model
“If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.” - John Lennon, 1940-1980, musician and singer-songwriter
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love” - Sophocles, c. 497/6 BC - 406-5 BC, Greek playwright
“The greatest degree of inner tranquillity comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.” - Tenzin Gyatso, 1935-, 14th Dalai Lama
“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.” - Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, political and spiritual leader of India
“A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away” - Bil Keane, 1922-, American cartoonist
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know. – Mistinguett, 1875-1956, French actress and singer
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous” - Ingrid Bergman, 1915-1982, Swedish actress
“A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears” - Woodrow Wyatt, 1918-1997, British politician, author, journalist and broadcaster
“All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!” - Lucy Van Pelt, In Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz, 1922-2000, American cartoonist
“All you need is love” - John Lennon & Paul McCartney, 1940-1980, and 1942-, resp., musicians and singer-songwriters
“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love” - Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910, Russian writer
“Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly” - Rose Franken, 1895-1988, playwright and novelist
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in” - Morrie Schwartz, 1916-1995, American educator and author
“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” - Judy Garland, 1922-1969, American actress and singer
“Wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure” - Paulo Coelho, 1947-, Brazilian lyricist and novelist
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother” - Theodore M. Hesburgh, 1917-, Catholic priest
“It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for what you are not” - Andre Gide, 1869-1951, French author
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead” - Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, philosopher
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” - Carl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist
“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand” - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1850-1919, American author and poet
“What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?” - Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher and classical philologist
“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence” - H. L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American journalist, essayist, magazine editor and satirist