Quotes on Love

• "Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion."
  - Mirabeau
• "Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
  -- Alexander Smith
• "I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on 'love lyrics."
  - Frank Zappa
• "A happy man marries the girl he loves; a happier man loves the girl he marries."
  - Anonymous
• "Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away."
  - Dorothy Parker
• "The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end."
  -- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) Henrietta Temple (1837)
• "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
  -- Robert Frost
• "Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd."
  -- William Congreve
• "We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by the qualities we possess."
  -- Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard, French journalist (1734-1817)
• "A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain."
  -- Abraham Crowley
• "So much of what we know of love we learn at home."
  -- unknown
• "You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without."
  -- unknown
• ""Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
  -- Saint-Exupery
• "He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
  -- Benjamin Franklin
• "True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."
  -- La Rochefoucauld
• "Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are."
  -- Houssaye
• "We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together."
  -- La Bruyere
• "Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."
  -- St. Augustine
• "Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never." -- Charles Caleb Colton
• "The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."
  -- Lawrence Durrell
• "There is no remedy for love but to love more."
  -- Thoreau
• "If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with..."
  -- Unknown
• "The world is divided between those who believe that love is of the heart and sex is of the body, and those that know the opposite."
  -- R. Verdi
• "Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener.
  New concept: Love is not blind -- it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
  -- Bach