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 loved, sir — used to meet:
How sad and bad and mad it was —
But then, how it was sweet!
And dare love that, and say so too,
And forget the He and She.
I long to talk with some old lover's ghost,
Who died before the god of love was born.
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
For a writer, to change languages is to write a love letter with a dictionary.
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
How strong is the love of the country in all indwellers of towns !
I believe the love of flowers to be as inherent in the disposition as any other inclination.
Ah, when will this long weary day have end,
And lende me leave to come unto my love?
Then let wrath remove;
Love will do the deed:
For with love
Stony hearts will bleed.
You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat:
So I did sit and eat.