quotations about love
Love is a stream that will find its course.
JAMAICAN PROVERB
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It is easy to halve the potato where there's love.
IRISH PROVERB
Love cannot be cured by herbs.
ROMAN PROVERB
Who has love in his heart has spurs in his sides.
ITALIAN PROVERB
Love is a wound that never heals.
GERMAN PROVERB
No rose without a thorn, nor love without a rival.
TURKISH PROVERB
Love is blind but sees afar.
ITALIAN PROVERB
Love begins at home.
GERMAN PROVERB
Love is blind.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Love is like butter, it goes well with bread.
YIDDISH PROVERB
Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
"Of the Affections", Les Caractères
Jean de La Bruyère (16 August 1645 - 11 May 1696) was a French philosopher and moralist noted for his satire. His Caractères, which appeared in 1688, captures the psychological, social, and moral profile of French society of his time.
We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
"Of the Affections", Les Caractères
Jean de La Bruyère (16 August 1645 - 11 May 1696) was a French philosopher and moralist noted for his satire. His Caractères, which appeared in 1688, captures the psychological, social, and moral profile of French society of his time.
Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.
JOHN LE CARRÉ
The Looking Glass War
It's a cliché, but also a deep truth (as cliché's tend to be), that you can't love another person very well if you don't love yourself.
HARRIET LERNER
"The Top 10 Reasons Women Re-Marry The Wrong Guys", Huffington Post, July 7, 2012
Love is blind; couch not his eyes.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES
Ranthorpe
There's love, sweet love, for one and all--
For love is best for great and small.
MAUD LINDSAY
"Inside the Garden Gate", Mother Stories
The stage is more beholding to love, than the life of man; for as to the stage, love is even matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief; sometimes like a siren, sometimes like a fury.
JOHN LOCKE
"Of Love", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political
I felt I had stepped into something big and splendid, as if I had been a caterpillar walking into the heart of a red rose. I felt prim and small and petty. Until then I had never known what love meant.
WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE
Simon the Jester
The ultimate fact of the universe is love; and its sway is all-comprehensive, and absolutely certain of final victory.
FRANK CUMMINS LOCKWOOD
Robert Browning
Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
JACK LONDON
The Valley of the Moon