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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We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.
Whoever loves become humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
True courtiers should be modest, and not nice;
Bold, but not impudent; pleasure love, not vice.
In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
All women love a good geek, and those who tell you otherwise are lying.
Even love, the beloved Republic, that feeds upon freedom and lives.
Surely most bitter of all sweet things thou art,
And sweetest thou of all things bitter, love.
The point is not that he has come to love Rita. It is that he has learned to see the angel.
My God you love to get them, and good Lord you hate to answer them.
We love this kind of death for Allah's cause as much as you like to live.
Remember this revolution is born out of love for my people not hatred for others.
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.