Love Quotes
This is one of the biggest pages on the site, and most of what is on it is not the kind of line you would put on a mug. Wikiquote’s editors drew these from poems, novels, letters and essays, so a lot of them only make full sense next to the sentences around them. That is useful if you want a real source and annoying if you want a caption.
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 is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being.
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
It serves for food and raiment.
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
It is always a poor way of reading the hearts of others to try to conceal our own.
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.