The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
—Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American Poet
Love means nothing in tennis, but it’s everything in life.
—Unknown
The woman that has not touched the heart of a man, before he leads her to the altar, has scarcely a chance to charm it when possession and security turn their powerful arms against her.
—Abraham Cowley (1618–67) English Poet, Essayist
A bell is no bell ’til you ring it,
A song is no song ’til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay –
Love isn’t love
‘Til you give it away.
—Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960) American Songwriter, Composer, Theater Producer, Writer
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.
—Common Proverb
Love the giver more than the gift.
—Brigham Young (1801–77) American Mormon Leader
Love is a serious mental disease.
—Plato (428 BCE–347 BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Mathematician, Educator
He who, silent, loves to be with us—he who loves us in our silence—has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.
—Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss Theologian, Poet
Love with old men is as the sun upon the snow, it dazzles more than it warms them.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn (1792–1870) Swiss Poet
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
—Henry Drummond
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. 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.
—Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese-born American Philosopher, Poet, Painter, Theologian, Sculptor
The root of the matter… the thing I mean… is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.
—Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love—and to put its trust in life.
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) Polish-born British Novelist
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.
—Unknown
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
—Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) Italian Poet, Dramatist, Satirist
You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.
—Unknown
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
—Henry Drummond
But true love is a durable fire,
In the mind ever burning,
Never sick, never old, never dead,
From itself never turning.
—Walter Raleigh (1552–1618) English Courtier, Navigator, Poet
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
—Euripides (480–406 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist
Avoid this dangerous mix of personal (grasping), spiritual and selfless love. Most of the time it ends in frustration.
—Hans Taeger
Love and friendship exclude each other.
—Jean de La Bruyere (1645–96) French Satiric Moralist, Author
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
—Henry Drummond
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
—George Moore (1852–1933) Irish Writer
You know what I love, sweetheart? The thoughts that used to send us into deep depression—these same thoughts, once understood, send us into laughter.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
None but the brave deserve the fair.
—John Dryden (1631–1700) English Poet, Literary Critic, Playwright
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself; and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright