Love Quotes: Expressions of the Heart (Page 38)

"In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence"

John Milton, Poet

"People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it"

Megan Fox, Actress

"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

"In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever"

George Whitefield, Clergyman

"But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't"

Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress

"One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears"

Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress

"Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love"

Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian

"Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed"

Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian

"Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice"

Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian

"I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit"

Bill Hicks, Comedian

"Love is the flower you've got to let grow"

John Lennon, Musician

"Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow"

John Lennon, Musician

"The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself"

Moliere, Playwright

"Reason is not what decides love"

Moliere, Playwright

"Love is often the fruit of marriage"

Moliere, Playwright

"It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love"

Moliere, Playwright

"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us"

John Gay, Poet

"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work"

William Faulkner, Novelist

"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, Poet

"Came but for friendship, and took away love"

Thomas Moore, Poet

"A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady"

Thomas Moore, Poet

"Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love"

Princess Diana, Royalty

"The brave love mercy, and delight to save"

John Gay, Poet

"Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee"

John Gay, Poet

"Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save"

John Gay, Poet

"Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do"

Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress

"Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town"

Steve Martin, Comedian

"I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that"

Princess Diana, Royalty

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