975 private quotes tagged love

“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.” — Aristotle

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“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.” — Thomas Moore

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“Love is a better teacher than duty.” — Albert Einstein

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“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” — Plato

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“The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.” — Julia Child

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“Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.” — Khalil Gibran

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“To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.” — Albert Camus

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“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo

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“Friendship is Love without his wings!” — Lord Byron

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“Hatred is blind, as well as love.” — Oscar Wilde

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“This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.” — C. S. Lewis

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“As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.” — William Shakespeare

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“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Those whom the gods love grow young.” — Oscar Wilde

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“The love of heaven makes one heavenly.” — William Shakespeare

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“Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.” — Khalil Gibran

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