A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle
Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
George Eliot
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
Love conquers all.
Virgil
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
Sophocles
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Vincent van Gogh
Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.
Voltaire
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T. S. Eliot
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Paulo Coelho
Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
Paulo Coelho
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
Paulo Coelho
I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
Paulo Coelho
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
Buddha
Do you love your creator Love your fellow-beings first.
Prophet Muhammad
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Khalil Gibran
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
Moliere
Reason is not what decides love.
Moliere
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen Keller
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
Francois Rabelais
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
Mother Teresa
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Mother Teresa
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Mother Teresa
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
George Bernard Shaw
Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work.
Author Unknown
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
Simone Signoret
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Doug Larson
One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
Judith Viorst
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
George Bernard Shaw
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Honore de Balzac
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Honore de Balzac
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Alexander Pope
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
Barack Obama