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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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than of war.
Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel.
All joys do not cause laughter; great pleasures are serious: pleasures of love do not make us laugh.
Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which tempests emerge when pricked.
Cease to behave as wolves and dogs that you may experience the Shepherd’s love.
Love is a golden key to let in Christ, and a strong lock to keep out others.
The desire to please is born in woman before the desire to love.
Vows are the false money that pays for the sacrifices of love.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years;
And every little absence is an age.