Love Quotes
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Two of the best-known love quotes are flagged here as misattributed. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life” is credited to Confucius. The oldest English version anyone has found is from a 1982 alumni magazine, where the man quoted was himself passing it along from an unnamed source. “God made beer because he loves us and wants us to be happy” is credited to Benjamin Franklin. It looks like a garbled version of what he wrote about wine in 1779, in a letter to André Morellet.
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Love gratified, is love satisfied — and love satisfied, is indifference begun.
Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.
Love without fear and trepidation is fire without flame and heat.
Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee,
When the ev'ning beams are set?
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God,
Who gives and asks no payment.
When two alien cultures meet, the stronger must transform the weaker with love or hate.
Come, my love, the stage is waiting,
Be the one to save my saving grace.
And love runs down like this
Water, love runs down.
How slow life is,
How violent hope is.
Love does not take away from one in order to give to another.
Alan Alda is loved not because he's sensitive, but because he's successful and sensitive.
The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.
I love going out and it is a bit sad when the photographers stop asking you for your picture.
"Love has a language that transcends all languages, all barriers and all distance.”
A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.