A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Washington IrvingFrom your parents you learn love, and laughter, and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened, you discover that you have wings.
Helen HayesWhen you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Mark TwainSex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best.
Woody AllenHe who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin FranklinWomen have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation, of children in arms, and men in love.
H. L. MenckenLove is the answer and you know that for sure, Love is a flower you've got to let it grow.
John LennonLove and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
Kahlil GibranI love technology.
William ShatnerOf all the varieties of virtues liberalism is the most beloved.
AristotleVirtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
BuddhaThis is very midsummer madness.
William ShakespeareGod respects me when I work; but God loves me when I sing.
Rabindranath TagoreThere is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Maya AngelouLove and serve the homeland, do not hate or hurt the homeland of others.
Sai BabaPeople happy in love have an air of intensity.
StendhalI see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar WildePlato is dear to me but dearer still is truth.
AristotleExpectation is the root of all heartache.
William ShakespeareLove is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. MenckenThe dupe of friendship and the fool of love, have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do, and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
William HazlittLove life, engage in it, give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back many times over what you put into it.
Maya AngelouFatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Bill CosbyNever part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
Jean PaulLove builds up the broken wall and straigtens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.
Maya AngelouBecause parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this this isn't him. This is not him.
Michael JacksonI also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.
William ShatnerAnger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George EliotI try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds, yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Mother TeresaIf you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Kahlil GibranWhere there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin FranklinA man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Oscar WildeA very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
StendhalThe story of a 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 HayesThe reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
Elbert HubbardThe word 'romance' according to the dictionary means excitement, adventure and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
Billy GrahamLove does not claim possession but gives freedom.
Rabindranath TagoreDon't knock masturbation - it's sex with someone I love.
Woody AllenObserve the life by cause and consequence. Explore the life by wisdom. Treat the life by equality. Complete the life by love.
BuddhaThe end of knowledge is LOVE. The end of education is character.
Sai BabaMen shrink less from offending one who inspires love, than one who inspires fear.
Niccolo MachiavelliLove recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination, full of hope.
Maya AngelouMan will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark TwainO love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
Jean-Jacques RousseauLife began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
George EliotI do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me 'I love you'. There is an African saying which is: 'Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt'.
Maya AngelouMy great hope is to laugh as much as I cry, to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya AngelouGreat talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Carl JungSecular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.
E. O. WilsonLove is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Maya AngelouGive your hands to serve and your hearts to love.
Mother TeresaEverybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.
John Lennon