"Love & Beauty Quotes"

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance,
but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances
of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself. - -

"For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself;
that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, and free speech;
we deserve to be sexual and serious--or whatever we please;
we are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution."
-Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

"People see you as an object, not a person,
and they project a set of expectations onto you.
People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing,
but actually it sets you apart." -Candace Bergen

"The Rubicans which women must cross,
the sex barriers which they must breach,
are ultimately those that exist in their own minds."
-Freda Adler

"Obesity in a woman violates conventional sexuality
not only through association with self-absorption
and auto-eroticism but also because largeness [is equated with] masculinity."
-Marcia Millman, Such a Pretty Face

" It is not easy to become beautiful. It requires hard work, patience,
and attention to detail. It also takes a certain firmness of purpose. Beauty
is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to
give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye." -Miss Piggy

"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties." - Jules Renard.

"Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right." - Woody Allen, Everything you Always Wanted to Know about Sex, but were Afraid to Ask, 1972.

"Continental people have sex-lives; the English have hot-water bottles." - George Mikes, How to be an Alien, 1946.

"Sex appeal is 50 per cent what you've got, and 50 per cent what people think you've got." - Sophia Loren.

"Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman." - Woody Allen.

"When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near." - Samuel Hoffenstein.

Barbara Walters: "You've been married 42 years. What makes your marriage work?" Robert Mitchum: "Lack of imagination, I suppose."

"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets." - Ogden Nash.

"Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic: it is triggered easily by thing, like putting a quarter in a vending machine." - Alex Comfort.

"When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her." – Sacha Guitry.

"Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too." - H. L. Mencken.

"God made man, and then said "I can do better than that" and made woman." – Adela Rogers St. John.

"It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time." – Tallulah Bankhead.

"When a woman behaves like a man, why can't she behave like a nice man?" - Dame Edith Evans.

"There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible." - P. J. O'Rouke.

"If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt." - Thomas Carlyle.

"I'll come up and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me." – Tallulah Bankhead.

'Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy-and that is life.' ~Jean Anouilh

'Tis time this heart should be unmoved, Since others it hath ceased to move. Yet though I cannot be beloved, still let me love!' ~Lord Byron

'Within you, I lose myself;
Without you, I find myself;
Searching to be lost again.'
~Unknown

'And all that did attend and follow were silent with love, as you now..'
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

'So deep in luve am I: And I will luve thee still, my dear, 'till a' the seas gang dry..'
~Robert Burns

'I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low and the stars are shining bright..let thy love in kisses rain on my lips and eyelids pale..' ~Percy Bysshe Shelley

'And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, love itself shall slumber on.'
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

'She walks in beauty, like the night, of cloudless climes and starry skies; and all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes..' ~Lord Byron

'Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.' ~Mark Overby

'Waking alone at the hour when we are trembling with tenderness, Lips that would kiss form prayers to broken stone.' ~T.S. Eliot

'There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.' ~Thorton Wilder

'Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a lover truly knows he is loved.'
~Rabindranath Tagore

'A kiss, when all is said, 'tis a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear.'
~Cyrano de Bergerac

' Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it; those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never..never forget it.' ~Curtis Judalet

'For 'twas not into my ear you whispered but into my heart; 'twas not my lips you kissed but my soul..' ~Judy Garland

'It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.' ~Christian Nestell Bovee

'Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love makes the ride worthwhile.'
~Franklin P. Jones

'I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.'
~Ray Croft

'To love one who also loves you..is exceeding the limit of human joy, it is stealing fire from heaven.' ~Madame de Gerardio

'Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.' ~Alfred, Lord Tennyson

'But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.' ~Sir Walter Raleigh

'Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.' ~Marcus Aurelius

'Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity, and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.' ~Khalil Gibran

'The story of love is not important~what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.' ~Helen Hayes

'One word frees us of all the weight and pain in the world. That word is love.'
~Sophocles

'One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.' ~Margaret Mead

'You are the secret song of birds, The thing that words can never name~
The fire within the flame, the throb within the pulse~The spirit that exults~
Joy that no grief can tame..' ~Louis Untermeyer

'When we can't have what we love, we must love what we have.'
~Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

'Never get married in the morning, 'cause you never know who you'll meet that night.' ~Paul Hornung

'Platonic friendship: the interval between the introduction and the first kiss.'
~Sophie Irene Loeb

'I'm a practicing heterosexual, but bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.' ~Woody Allen

'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight..' ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Chastity is it's own punishment." -- A poster in Greenwich Village, psychedelic store in 1967

"Relationships are hard. It's like a full-time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice. There should be severance pay and before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp." Bob Ettinger

when i say you sucked my brain out the english translation is i am in love with you - Ani Difranco

"You're right, disappointment doesn't kill. Rejection kills. Disappointment only maims." Abby Barnes in reference to dating,_The Truth about Cats and Dogs

"I don't handle alcohol very well. One drink and I have to go to my bed. Two drinks and I have to go to your bed." --Singer Chrissie Hynde

"People ask me, 'What's the most dangerous thing you've ever done?' I say, 'Dating.'" --Sandra Bullock

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.o risk being called sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk showing your true self.
To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naive.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair, and to try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
Chained only by his certitudes, he is a slave, he's forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.
-- Leo Buscaglia

" Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and amoung all, never...never forget it. " -- Curtis Judalet

Marriage is a permanent contract based upon temporary feelings, Casual sex is a temporary contract based upon permanent feelings. -Unknown

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.-- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) English prime minister

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. --George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic Broadbent, John Bull's Other Island

You say to me-wards your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long. --Robert Herrick 1591-1674 Hesperides [1648].

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. --William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) English author

That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. --Don Quixote de la

" A romance novel is where you have the best sex of your life and live happily ever after. " -- John Short

" Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up save in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. " --C. S. Lewis.

" Sex without love is a empty and meaningless experience, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best. " - Woody Allen

" When it comes to sex I plead insanity, I'm just crazy about it! " . . . Anonymous

LOVE: That blissful intermission between meeting someone and realizing how much you hate them. -Unknown

" From now on I'm going to wear all of the colors of the rainbow, and fall in love with someone who fancies me for a change. " - Fiona, _Four Weddings and a Funeral_

" Tis better to have loved and lost a short person than never to have loved a tall. " --Mary

" Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a minature machine gun. " - from a cartoon by Matt Groening

" Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. " - Matt Groening

" It's a special feeling I get when a friend falls in love.. I feel so.. so.. " " Bitter. " " That's it exactly. " - Doctor, Doctor

" Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. " -- Cynthia Heimel

This will be no help at all, but I was immediately reminded of a country western song title-- Now That You're Gone, I Miss You Almost As Much As If You Were Still Here, which was rapidly followed by How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away?

" The heart is the most resilient muscle. It is also the stupidest." Nike's "Six Acts of Love: A Passion Play"

"For twas not into my ear you whispered but into my heart. Twas not my lips you kissed, but my soul." Judy Garland

"It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it." -- Christian Nestell Bovee

"A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth--and endures all the rest." -- Helen Rowland

" Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. " - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. " -Comte DeBussy Rabutin

" Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two seperate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman). " --Milan Kundera in The Unbearable Lightness of Being

" All love that has not friendship for its base, Is like a mansion built upon the sand. " --Ella Wheeler Wilcox

" Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. " -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 'Wind, SAnd and Stars',

Daisaku Ikeda
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Alexander Smith
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

Unknown What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

Unknown
Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love.

Unknown
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything

Rainer Maria Rilke
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

M. Scott Peck, M.D
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
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W. H. Auden
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

Confucius
Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Albert Einstein
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Douglas Yates
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Mother Teresa
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

P. L. Berger
In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.

No matter what, no matter where, it's always home, if love is there.

Unknown
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we
fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

Bessie Stanley
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.

Unknown
Love is not blind, it sees more not less;
But because it sees more it chooses to see less.

He who is not impatient is not in love. – Pietro Aretino, "La Talanta" (1492-1556)

And if we wish to know the order of all the passions in the way of generation, love and hatred are first; desire and aversion; hope and despair third; fear and daring fourth; anger, fifth; sixth and last, joy and sadness, which follow from all the passions . . . yet so that love precedes hatred, desire precedes aversion, hope precedes despair, fear precedes daring, and joy precedes sadness. – Thomas Aquinas, "Summa Theologica" (1225-1274)

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. - - Francis Bacon, "Of Friendship" (1561-1626)

Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it. - - Francis Bacon, "Of Judicature" (1561-1626)

Love has been assigned to woman as her supreme vocation, and when she directs it toward a man, she is seeking God in him; but if human love is denied her by circumstance, if she is disappointed or overparticular she may choose to adore divinity in the person of God Himself. - - Simon De Beauvoir, "The Second Sex" (1949)

Love seeketh not Itself to please,

Nor for itself hath any care,

But for another gives its ease,

And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair. - - -William Blake, Songs of Experience, "The Clod & the Pebble" (1794)

When the coin is tossed either Love or Lust will fall uppermost. But if the metal is right, under the one will always be the other. –Gerald Brenan, "Thoughts in a Dry Season" (1899)

Lover indeed (I may not deny) first united provinces, built cities, and by a perpetual generation makes and preserves mankind; but if it rage it has no more love, but burning lust, a disease, frenzy, madness, hell . . .

It subverts kingdoms, overthrows cities, towns, families; mars, corrupts and makes a massacre of men; thunder and lightning, wars, fires, plagues, have not done the mischief as this burning lust, this brutish passion. –Robert Burton, "The Anatomy of Melancholy" (1621)

In her first passion woman loves her lover,

In all the others all she loves is love. ---Lord Byron, "Don Juan" (1821)

Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light. – Thomas Carlyle, "Goethe" (1828)

I hate and love. You may ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it and am in torment. – Cais Valerius Catullus, "Carmina" (87-54 B.C.)

Love in young men: for the most part is not love but sexual desire, and it accomplishment is the end. - - Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, attributed (1547-1615)

"Do not forget, Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "that there are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body. That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, generosity, and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; and when one’s gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, love is usually born suddenly and violently." - - - Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote" (1605-1615)

If we do not know what port we’re steering for, no wind is favorable. . – Seneca

Around the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate. – J.R.R. Tolkien

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the paths of life. – Carl Jung

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do. -–William Ellery Channing

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. – Otto Rank

Talents are common; everyone has them. But rare is the courage to follow our talents where they lead. – Anonymous

That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate. – Carl Jung

If I were to begin life again, I should want it just as it was; only I would open my eyes a little more. – Jules Renard

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. – Emma Goldman

Creative energy, flowing in waves-

The nourishing sun, the flash of lighting.

Breathe it in; feel its force.

It can create, nourish, or destroy.

How do you channel creative energy in your life?

Is it blocked or flowing?

How does it manifest in positive ways?

How does it manifest in negative ways?

What would life be like if you confidently

Unleashed the creativity within you? – Dan Millman

Some people say they haven’t yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates. – Thomas Szasz

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. – Erich Fromm

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Imagine two hands, one open and offering, the other clenched in a fist of resistance. Which hand do you put forward most?

Do you hold out both hands in equal measure?

Do you allow yourself to receive as much as you give?

Do you overhelp, then resent it?

Where does your responsibility end and that of others begin?

Have you found a balance in your life? – Dan Millman

All great discoveries are made by those whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

– C. H. Parkhurst

Imagine a rosebud with its petals closed over a glowing heart, filled with passionate feelings, but not showing itself in its full beauty, not until the blossom opens. It remains closed by doubt. How does self-doubt affect your life? Do you express your feelings openly, or do you hide, like the heart in the rosebud? – Dan Millman

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. Now put

Imagine a house under construction, the foundation poured and set, the structure and framework rising, one step at a time. How is this house like your life? What does it reveal to you about reaching your goal? Have you strengthened your foundation? Do you build your life step-by-step? – Dan Millman

Adventure is not outside; it is within. – David Grayson

The time has come for us to stop tuning separate instruments and, together, to create a symphony. – Anonymous

What we can’t express runs our life. – Anonymous

Life is a dance if you take the steps: one step, then another. – Anonymous

As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom. – Maria Ebner Von Eschenbach

It doesn’t matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn’t matter what we do. – Charly Heavenrich

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. – Goethe

To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success. – Henry Ford

Eventually, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. – Robert Louis Stevenson

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order. – Henry Miller

You must give folks a key and they can open their own locks. – Robert R. McCammon

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. - Albert Camus.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love.
But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer;
not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love.
To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy.
Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer
or suffer from too much happiness. - Woody Allen

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator,
but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. - W. H. Auden

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. - Charlie Brown

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love;
the running across fields into your lover's arms
can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
- Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Doog Museum"

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
– Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.- Albert Einstein

No, this trick won't work...
How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry
and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
- Albert Einstein

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love
when they no longer love each other.
-Francois, Duc de La Rouchefoucald

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the
innermost core of his personality - Victor Frankel

Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. -Robert Frost

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less.
But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
- Rabbi Julins Gordon

Love is a hole in the heart. - Ben Hecht

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and important. - Lisa Hoffman

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. - Ken Kesey

Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham, "A Writer's Notebook" 1949

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything,
and two minus one equals nothing.
-Mignon McLaughlin

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- - H. L. Mencken

Love is like racing across the frozen tundra on a snowmobile which flips over, trapping you underneath. At night, the ice-weasels come.
-Nietchze

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others,
and the delight in the recognition.
- Alexander Smith

Love in its essence is spiritual fire. -Swedenborg

Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway. - Judith Viorst

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

Voltaire

Men always want to be a womans first love –

women like to be a mans last romance. -Oscar Wilde

Many a young lady does not realize just how strong her love for a young man is until he fails to pass the approval test with her parents.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right. -Donald Culross Peattie, "An Almanac for Moderns"

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example. -John Ruskin, "The Stones of Venice, I"

"Love sees with the heart and not the mind; therefore, winged cupid is

painted blind." --William Shakespeare

It is impossible to love and to be wise. -Francis Bacon

One hour of right-down love

Is worth an age of dully living on. --Aphra Behn

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret. --Aphra Behn

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. --The Bible

Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is

strong as death. --The Bible

Love seeketh not Itself to please,

Nor for itself hath any care,

But for another gives it ease,

And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

-William Blake

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. --Jorge Luis Borges

O what a heaven is love! O what a hell! --Thomas Dekker

I am two fools, I know,

For loving, and for saying so

in Whining poetry.

-John Donne

All mankind love a lover. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

For you see, each day I ove you more,

Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

-Rosemonde Gerard

A lover without indescretion is no lover at all. -Thomas Hardy

Love and a cough cannot be hid. -George Herbert

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed

to find themselves alone. -La Bruyere

If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than

friendship. -La Rochefoucauld

It is with true love as it is with ghosts;

everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

-La Rochefoucauld

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. -Thomas Mann

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? -Christopher Marlowe><

Love is a kind of warfare. -OVID

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. --Plato

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but

in looking outward together in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. -George Sand

The course of true love never did run smooth. -Shakespeare

All's fair in love and war. -Francis Edward Smedley

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life.

That word is love. -Sophocles

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. -Miguel de Unamuno

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must

be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. - David Bissonette

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. –

Noel Coward, 1956

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him

keep her. - Sacha Guitry

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in

Europe -Jackie Mason

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get

in, and those inside desperate to get out. - Montaigne

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just

can't face each other, but still they stay together. -- Hemant Joshi

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and

suffering.

Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second

marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts when

they try to decide which one.

Before marriage, a man yearns for the woman he loves. After marriage,

the 'Y' becomes silent.

If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every

word you say, talk in your sleep.

Beauty is its own excuse for being.

You are but the loveliest thing of beauty God ever has shown to me,
Your voice, your hair, your eyes, the soft and gentle ways you are.

Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher indeed, than genius as it needs no explanation.

What's female beauty, but an air divine.
Thro' which the mind's all gentle graces shine?
They, like the sun, irradiates all between;
The body charms becausse the soul is seen.

Beautiful in form and feature,
Lovely as the day,
Can there be so fair a creature,
Formed of common ways?

"I mean, I like being attractive and popular, it's, like, me okay? So if Dr. Shar makes everybody else attractive and popular, then I'll have to be even more attractive just to keep up, and then if they, like, go back to her to catch up to me, then I'll have to go back and pretty soon it'll be, like, one of those vicious things! Where will it end, Daria? Where will it end?" -Quinn Morgendorfer in Daria

"Character contributes to beauty...A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful."
-Jacqueline Bisset

"There's a beauty on the inside of you / And it shows on the outside too."
-Michael W. Smith

"Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; / 'Tis virtue that doth make them most admired; / 'Tis modesty, that makes them seem divine." -Shakespeare

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, but must be felt with the heart." -Helen Keller

"Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison and the crime is how much we hate ourselves....when you really look closely people are so strange and so complicated that they're actually beautiful." -"Angela Chase" My So-Calllledd Life

"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it." -Confucius

Francis Quarles (1592-1644) English Poet	The breath of divine knowledge is the bellows of divine love, and the flame of divine love is the perfection of divine knowledge.
Sir Walter Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) English Statesman and Man of Letters	Divine is love, and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.
Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886) Hindu Mystic	There are three kinds of love, - unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind. The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings. In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved but has an eye towards his own happiness also. It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe.
Jean Paul F. Richter (1763-1825) German Novelist	Paradise is always where love dwells.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1945)French Author	Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) English Novelist and Poet	Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.) Roman Philosopher, Dramatist, and Statesman	True love hates and will not bear delay. If you wished to be loved, love.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Dramatist and Poet	Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, Yet love breaks through and picks them all at last. Doubt thou the stars are fire! Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. They are but beggars that can count their worth, But my true love is grown to such excess, I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth. Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; When little fears grow great, great love grows there. My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee The more I have, for both are infinite. For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
William Simms (1806-1870) American Author	Love is but another name for that inscrutable presence by which the soul is connected with humanity.
Sri Swami Sivananda (born 1887) Indian Physician and Sage	Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.
Germaine De Stael (1766-1817) French-Swiss Novelist	Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end. Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's.
Henri B. Stendhal (1783-1842) French Writer	Love is like what is called the Milky Way in heaven, a brilliant mass formed by thousands of little stars, of which each perhaps is nebulous.
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) English Author	Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895) Scottish Essayist, Poet, and Novelist	And my heart springs up anew, Bright and confident and true, And the old loves comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew.
Emanuel Swedenborg(1688-1772) Swedish Scientist, Religious Teacher and Mystic	Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Anne Swetchine (1782-1857) Russian Author	To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) English Author	So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.
Algernon Swinburne (1837-1909) English Poet	Laurel is green for a season, and love is sweet for a day; But love grows bitter with treason, and laurel outlives not May.
Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) American Journalist, Traveler, and Author	I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old. And the leaves of the Judgement Book unfold!
William Temple (1628-1699) English Statesman and Author	The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) English Poet	Who are wise in love, love most, say least. 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old.
Terence (B.C. 185-159) Roman Writer of Comedies	Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love.
William M. Thackeray (1811-1863) English Novelist	It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Albius Tibullus (B.C. 49-19) Roman Elegiac Poet	Fear not to swear; the winds carry the perjuries of lovers without effect over land and sea, thanks to Jupiter. The father of the gods himself has denied effect to what foolish lovers in their eagerness have sworn.
Upanishads (c. B.C. 800) Hindu Poetic Dialogues on Metaphysics	The little space within the heart is as great as this vast universe. The heavens and the earth are there,and the sun, and the moon, and the stars; fire and lightning and winds are there; and all that now is and all that is not: for the whole universe is in Him and He dwells within our heart.
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) Dutch Postimpressionist Painter	Love is eternal - the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.
George Villiers (1628-1687) English Wit, Poet, and Statesman	For all true love is grounded on esteem.
Voltaire (1694-1778) French Historian and Writer	Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900) British Author and Wit	Men always want to be a woman's first love - Women like to be a man's last romance. When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself, one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls romance. Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Irish Poet and Playwright	Wine come in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

Jesus(B.C. 6?-30? A.D.) Founder of Christianity	Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Ben Jonson (1572-1637) English Poet and Dramatist	Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you: Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of men?
Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808-1890) French Author	Life is the flower of which love is the honey.
Abu Ali Katib (fl. c. 940) Iraqi Sufi Leader	Pleasant fragrances of the breezes of love blow from the lovers even thought they might conceal it. The effects of these breezes bear witness to them even if they disguise it and are apparent even if they hide it.
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) English Author and Clergyman	As the rays come from the sun, and yet are not the sun, even so our love and pity, though they are not God, but merely a poor, weak image and reflection of him, yet from him alone they come.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) English Author of Prose and Verse	The heart of a man to the heart of a maid - Light of my tents, be fleet - Morning awaits at the end of the world, And the world is all at our feet. Sing, for faith and hope are high- None so true as you and I- Sing the Lover's Litany: "Love like ours can never die!"
Jean de La Bruyere (1645-1696) French Classical Writer	Love begins with love.
Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) French Poet	O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French Classical Writer	It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks of it, but few have seen it. As love increases, prudence diminishes. The more we love the nearer we are to hate. When the heart is still agitated by the remains of a passion, we are more ready to receive a new one than when we are entirely cured. The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that which we excite. The reason why lovers are never weary of one another is this - they are always talking of themselves. If we judge of love by most of its results, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
Letitia E. Landon (1802-1838) English Poet and Novelist	Love is a pearl of purest hue, But stormy waves are round it; And dearly may a woman rue, The hour that she found it.
Lao-Tzu (fl. B.C. 600) Chinese Philosopher - Founder of Taoism	If one has love in battle one is victorious. If one has it in defense one is invincible. Whom Heaven wants to save him he protects through love.
Henry W. Longfellow (1819-1892) American Poet	Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart and not the brain That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest. There is nothing in this world so sweet as love, and next to love, the sweetest thing is hate. It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Samuel Lover (1797-1868) Irish Novelist and Song Writer	Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
Sir John Lubbock (1834-1913) English Statesman, Banker, and Naturalist	Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
Martin Luther (1483-1546) German Leader of the Protestant Reformation	Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
John Lyly (1554-1606) English Dramatist and Prose Writer	A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes, and hearts, and ears; bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, killed by dissembling, buried by ingratitude; and this is love.
Margaret of Valois (1553-1615) French Author - Wife of Henry IV	In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.
Wm. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English Novelist and Playwright	The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
Edna Millay (1892-1950) American Poet	And if I loved you Wednesday, Well, what is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - So much is true.
Henry Miller (1891-1980) American Author	The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
Richard Milnes (1809-1885) English Politician, Poet, and Writer	He who for love hath undergone. The worst that can befall, Is happier thousandfold than one Who never loved at all.
John Milton (1608-1674) English Poet	Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss. So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, that without him live no life
Thomas Moore (1779-1852) Irish Poet	There is nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dreams. Yes, loving is a painful thrill And not to love more painful still; But oh, it is the worst of pain, To love and not be lov'd again.
Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) French Poet, Dramatist, and Fiction Writer	Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.
Napoleon (1769-1821) French Emperor	Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination.
Ovid (B.C. 43-18 A.D.) Latin Poet	Love is a thing full of anxious fears. Love and dignity cannot share the same abode. If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe.
Blaise Pascal (1623-62) French Philosopher	The heart has reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) Italian Poet and Humanist	Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
Plato (B.C. 427?-347?) Greek Philosopher	He whom love touches not walks in darkness. Love will make men dare to die for their beloved - love alone; and women as well as men.
Plautus (B.C. 254-184) Roman Comic Poet	He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English Poet, Critic, and Translator	Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
Sextus Propertius (B.C. 50-16) Roman Elegiac Poet	Everybody in love is blind.
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) French Novelist	Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English Essayist, Poet, and Statesman	Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, Hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375) Egyptian King and Monotheist	In the spring of thy youth, in the morning of thy days, when the eyes of man gaze on thee with delight, and nature whispereth in thine ear the meaning of their looks; Ah! hear with caution their seducing words, guard well thy heart, nor listen to their soft persuasions.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English Philosopher, Essayist, and Statesman	Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
Philip James Bailey (1816-1902) English Poet	I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die. The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) French Novelist	There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire. The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
Francis W. Bourdillon (1852-1921) English Poet	The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done.
Christian N. Bovee (1820-1904) American Author and Editor	It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
Antoine Bret (1717-1792) French Writer and Poet	The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom.
Robert Browning (1812-1889) English Poet	Love is energy of life.
Robert Burns (1759-1796) Scottish Poet	What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love's the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
George Gordon N Byron (1788-1824) English Poet	In her first passion woman loves her lover; In all others, all she loves is love. Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire. Let none think to fly the danger For soon or late love is his own avenger. Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But not too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes; Disguise even tenderness, if thou art wise.
Pedro Calderon (1600-1681) Spanish Dramatist	Love that is not madness is not love.
Thomas Carew (1595?-1639) English Poet	A smooth and steadfast mind, Gentle thoughts and calm desires, Hearts with equal love combined, Kindle never-dying fires.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish Author and Philosopher	Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. I call it rather a discerning of the infinite in the finite-of the ideal made real.
Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834) English Poet, Critic, and Philosopher	All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame.
William Congreve (1670-1729) English Dramatist	Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
Thomas Dekker (1577-1632) English Dramatist	O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!
Thomas Dewar (1864-1930) British Distiller, Writer, and Wit	Love is an ocean of emotions, entirely surrounded by expenses.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English Novelist	A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
John Dryden (1631-1700) English Poet, Dramatist, and Critic	Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are. Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts. Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) French Novelist and Dramatist	Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Poet and Essayist	The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs. Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession. Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment. A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays. Love is the essence of God.
Euripides(B.C. 480-406) Greek Tragic Poet	He is not a lover who does not love forever.
John Ford (1586-1640) English Dramatist	Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American Statesman, Printer, Scientist, and Writer	If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Erich Fromm (1900-1980) German Born American Psychoanalyst	In love the paradox occurs that two things become one and yet remain two.
John Gay (1688-1732) English Playwright and Poet	Love, then, hath every bliss in store; 'Tis friendship, and 'tis something more. Each other every wish they give; Not to know love is not to live.
Johann W. von Goethe (1749-1832) German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist, and scientist	Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. Love has power to give in a moment what toil can scarcely reach in an age. He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
Remy de Gourmont (1858-1915) French Critic and Novelist	Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.
Manly P. Hall (born 1901) American - Founder Philosophical Research Society	The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) German Poet	It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new.
Arthur Helps (1813-1875) English Historian and Author	No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.
John Heywood (1497?-1580?) English Dramatist and Proverb Collector	They do not love that do not show their love.
Josiah Holland (1819-1881) American Author	The heart is wiser than the intellect.

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