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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Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.
The only people who love a war are those who have never fought in one.
Christ wanted love to be called his single commandment. This we owe to all men. Nobody is excepted.
It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, you know, knowing you are loved and wanted.
Driven raving mad by love—and he a man who had been always esteemed for his great prudence.
What a man sees, Love can make invisible—and what is invisible, that can Love make him see.