~And all for love, and nothing for reward.(Edmund Spenser)
~Two human loves make one divine.(Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
~What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? (Robert Browning)
~Is it, in heaven, a crime to love too well? (Alexander Pope)
~For aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth. (William Shakespeare)
~Loving a woman who scorns you is like licking honey from a thorn. (Welsh proverb)
~She is not fair to outward view as many maidens be; her loveliness I never knew until she smiled on me. (Hartley Coleridge)
~All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. (Leo Tolstoy)
~Oh, they loved dearly; their souls kissed, they kissed with their eyes, they were both but one single kiss. (Heinrich Heine)
~Western wind, when wilt thou blow, the small rain down can rain? Christ if my love were in my arms and I in my bed again! (Anonymous, 16th Century)

~Ah! When will this long weary day have end, and lend me leave to come unto my lover? (Edmund Spenser)
~But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love forever. (Robert Burns)
~A man in love mistakes a harelip for a dimple. (Japanese proverb)
~Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit. (William Shakespeare)
~My flocks, feed not, my ewes breed not, my arms speed not, all is amiss. Love is dying, faith’s defying, heart’s denying, causer of this. (Richard Barnfield)
~Love is enough; though the world be awning, and the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining. (William Morris)
~Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. (Jerome K. Jerome)
~Whoso loves believes the impossible. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
~Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind…(William Shakespeare)
~Ah love! Could thou and I with fate conspire to grasp this sorry scheme of things entire, would not we shatter it to bits and then re-mould it nearer to the heart’s desire! (Edward Fitzgerald)

~So, we’ll go no more a roving so late into the night, though the heart be still as loving, and the moon be still as bright. For the sword outweighs its sheath and the soul wears out the breast, and the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.(George Gordon, Lord Byron)
~Love is swift of foot; love’s a man of war, and can shoot, and can hit for far. (George Herbert)
~Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. (Samuel Johnson)
~He who binds himself a joy does the winged life destroy but he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity’s sunrise. (William Blake)
~Were the whole realm of nature mine, that were a present far too small, love so amazing, so divine demands my soul, my life, my all. (Isaac Watts)
~Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. (William Shakespeare)
~Lips only sing when they cannot kiss.(James Thomson)
~Love is the life of every man. (Emanuel Swedenborg)
~Love rules the court, the camp, the groove, and men below, and saints above; for love is heaven and heaven is love. (Sir Walter Scott)
~Love lives in cottages as well as in court. (English proverb)

~Love then, and even later, was the whole concern of everyone’s life. That is always the fate of leisured societies. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
~Friendship is love without his wings. (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
~Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. (Song of Solomon)
~Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more. (Catullus)
~No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream. (Thomas Moore)
~Drinking when we are not thirsty, and making love at all seasons, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from the other animals. (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais)
~Love’s but the frailty of the mind, when ‘tis not with ambition joined. (William Congreve)
~There is no love like the first love.(Italian proverb)
~O, my love’s like a red red rose that’s newly sprung in June. O, my love’s like the melodie that’s sweetly play’d in tune. (Robert Burns)
~You cannot give a kiss without taking and cannot take without giving. (Anonymous)

~There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. (John, 4:18)
~You say, to me – wards your affection’s strong; pray love me little, so you love me long. (Robert Herrick)
~There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for further desires.(Marcel Proust)
~For news of the heart ask the face. (Cambodian proverb)
~Tomorrow may he love who never loved before, and may he who has loved love too. (Pervigilium Veneris)
~Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun douth move; doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love. (William Shakespeare)
~If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die, that strain again! It had a dying fall. O! It came o’er my ear like the sweet sound that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour! (William Shakespeare)
~He speaks of love, such love as spirits feel in worlds whose course is equable and pure; no fears to beat away – no strife to heal, - the past un-sighed for, and the future sure. (William Wordsworth)
~Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for thy love is better than wine. (Song of Solomon, 1:2)
~Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day. (John Donne)

~The summer hath his joys, and winter his delights. Though love and all his pleasures are but toys, they shorten tedious nights. (Thomas Campion)
~Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a heaven in hell’s despair. (William Blake)
~Love and cough cannot be hid. (George Herbert)
~A life without love is like a year without summer. (Swedish proverb)
~If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love’s sake only. (Elizabeth Barrett browning)
~Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate. (Plautus)
~Tell me whom you love, and I’ll tell you who you are. (African-American proverb)
~True love’s the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heavens. (Sir Walter Scott)
~We love being in love, that’s the truth on’t.(W. M. Thackeray)
~Freely we serve because we freely love, as in our will to love or not; in this we stand or fall. (John Milton)

~Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own. (Emanuel Swedenborg)
~It hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it when I sorrow most; ‘tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
~She who has never loved has never lived. (John Gay)
~It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done? (Matthew Arnold)
~Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found upon the ground, of no value themselves, but precious as showing that a mine is near. (George Villieres)
~There is no greater nor keener pleasure than that of bodily love, and none which is more rational. (Plato)
~Love can vanquish death. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
~If I were pressed to say why I loved him, I feel that my only reply could be; ‘Because it was he, because it was I’. (Michel de Montaigne)
~The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. (Victor Hugo)
~Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight? (Christopher Marlowe)

~Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking. (Portuguese proverb)
~He who finds not love finds nothing. (Chilean proverb)
~A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind; a lover’s ear will hear the lowest sound. (William Shakespeare)
~Alas! The love of women! It is known to be a lovely and a fearful thing. (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
~All mankind love a lover. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
~More like a man flying from something he dreads than one who sought the thing he loved. (William Wordsworth)
~A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. (John Keats)
~Love is a kind of warfare.(Ovid)
~Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest. (John Webster)
~O lyric love, half angel and half bird and all a wonder and wild desire. (Robert Browning)

~Fill ev’ry glass, for wine inspires us, and with courage, love and joy. Women and wine should life employ. Is there aught else on earth desirous? (John Gay)
~Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. (Madame de Stael)
~My heart is like a singing bird whose nest is in a watered shoot; my heart is like an apple-tree whose boughs are bent with thickest fruit; my heart is like a rainbow shell that paddles in a halcyon sea; my heart is gladder than all these because my love is come to me. (Christina Rossetti)
~He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence. (William Blake)
~Love that is old never rusts. (German proverb)
~Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or tends with the remover to remove. O, no! It is an ever-fixed mark. (William Shakespeare)
~See the mountains kiss high heaven and the waves clasp one another; no sister-flower would be forgiven if it disdained its brother; and the sunlight clasps the earth and the moonbeams kiss the sea; what is all this sweet work worth if thou kiss not me? (Perrer Bysshe Shelley)
~At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. (Plato)
~Wine comes in at the mouth and love comes in at the eye; that’s all we know for truth before we grow old and die. I lift the glass to my mouth, I look at you, and I sigh. (William Butler Yeats)
~Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine; or leave a kiss but in the cup and I’ll not look for wine. (Ben Johnson)

~Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. (William Blake)
~Love; and do what you like. (St. Augustine)
~A loving heart is always young. (French proverb)
~Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself. (Boethius)
~Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; for love is sufficient unto love. (Khalil Gibran)
~The best portion of a good man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. (William Wordsworth)
~I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.(Virgil)
~It is best to cultivate a heart of love that knows no anger. (Irish proverb)
~Like the fire of life, love either consumes or purifies. (Anonymous)
~The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.(Benjamin Disraeli)

~Live and let love. (Anonymous)
~Love makes all hard hearts gentle. (George Herbert)
~Power cannot command love nor money buy it. (Anonymous)
~Sex is the poor man’s opera. (Italian proverb)
~The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love.(Marcel Proust)
~Familiar acts are beautiful through love. (Percey Bysshe Shelley)
~What is it men in women do require? The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women in men do require? The lineaments of gratified desire. (William Blake)
~Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight. (Cervantes)
~Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul but I do love thee! And when I love thee not, chaos is come again. (William Shakespeare)
~How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth of height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

~As for the lover, his soul dwells in the body of another. (Marcus Cato)
~Youth’s the season made for joys’ love is then our duty. (John Gay)
~The day breaks not, it is my heart. (John Donne)
~If thou remember’st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into’ thou has not loved. (William Shakespeare)
~The intellect is always fooled by the heart. (Due de la Rouchefoucauld)
~Never seek to tell thy love, love that never told can be; for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly. (William Blake)
~Kisses are like almonds.(Sicilian proverb)
~Love draws me one way, reason another. (Ovid)
~Love is that orbit of the restless soul whose circle grazes the confines of space, bounding within the limits of its race utmost extremes. (George Henry Boker)
~I love thee with a love I seemed to lose with my lost saints – I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life! – and if God chooses, I shall but love thee better after death. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

~Oh lift me from the grass! I die! I faint! I fail! Let thy love and kisses rain on my lips and eyelids pale, my cheek is cold and white, alas! My heart beats loud and fast; - Oh! Press it to thine own again, where it will break at last. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
~Love is a friend, a fire, a heaven, a hell, where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell. (Richard Barnfield)
~If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. (Thomas Fuller)
~If you want to be loved, love and be lovable. (Benjamin Franklin)
~Love is the blossom where there blows everything that lives or grows. (Giles Fletcher)
~Love keeps out the cold better than a cloak. It serves for food and raiment. (Longfellow)
~Love in its essence is spiritual fire. (Emanuel Swedenborg)
~Love is nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object. (Montaigne)
~For loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament, but is, when unadorned, adorned the most. (James Thomson)
~True love is but a humble, low-born thing, and hath its food served up in earthen wear; it is a thing to walk with, hand in hand, through the everydayness of this workday world. (J. R. Lowell)

~Love is the mind’s strong physic, and the pill that leaves the heart sick and o’erturns the will.(Thomas Middleton)
~I love thee like pudding; if thou wert pie I’d eat thee. (John Ray)
~The universe hangs on a kiss, exists in the hold of a kiss. (Zalman Shneor)
~Rose- leaves, when the rose is dead, are heaped for the beloved’s bed; and so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, love itself shall slumber on. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
~Tell her, brief is life but love is long. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
~We were two and had but one heart. (Francois Villon)
~Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man! (Thomas Campion)
~Let those love now, who never lov’d before. Let those who always lov’d now love the more. (Thomas Parnell)
~Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. (Oscar Wilde)
~A ruddy drop of manly blood the surging sea outweighs; the world uncertain comes and goes, the lover rooted stays. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

~The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion. (Arab proverb)
~It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it had begun. (Longfellow)
~It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. (Paul Geraldy)
~You can’t force anyone to love you or to lend you money. (Jewish proverb)
~Respect is love in plain clothes. (Franklin Byrne)
~Thou art my own, my darling and my wife; and when we pass into another life, still thou art mine. All this which now we see is but the childhood of eternity. (Arther Joseph Munby)
~The mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart but one; yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done. (Francis William Bourdillon)
~Love is too strong a word to say it too early, but it has too beautiful a meaning to say it too late.(Kurt Cornish)
~Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. (William Shakespeare)
~Life is a flower of which love is the honey. (Victor Hugo)