Love

"There is a lady sweet and kind, Was never face so pleased my mind; I did but see her passing by, And yet I love her till I die."

"Bid me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be: Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thee, A heart as soft, a heart as kind, A heart as sound and free As in the whole world thou canst find, That heart I'll give to thee."

"To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life."

"O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness!"

"For love deceives the best of woman kind."

"Si sine amore, jocisque Nil est jucundum, vivas in amore jocisque."

"What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair."

"If you become a Nun, dear, The bishop Love will be; The Cupids every one, dear! Will chant—'We trust in thee!'"

"Love has a tide!"

"When love is at its best, one loves So much that he cannot forget."

"I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth."

"When late I attempted your pity to move, Why seemed you so deaf to my prayers? Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love But—why did you kick me downstairs?"

"If Love were jester at the court of Death, And Death the king of all, still would I pray, "For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith, The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath!""

"Love begins with love."

"Amour! Amour! quand tu nous tiens On peut bien dire, Adieu, prudence."

": O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu."

"Ce qui fait que amants et les maitresses ne s'ennuient point d'être ensemble; c'est qu'ils parlent toujours d'eux mêmes."

": The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves."

"I love a lassie, a bonnie, bonnie lassie, She's as pure as the lily in the dell. She's as sweet as the heather, The bonnie, bloomin' heather, Mary, ma Scotch Blue-bell."

"Et c'est dans la première flamme Qu'est tout le nectar du baiser."

"Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse. To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing, As in a foundering ship."

"Like Dian's kiss, unask'd, unsought, Love gives itself, but is not bought."

"It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun."

"I do not love thee less for what is done, And cannot be undone. Thy very weakness Hath brought thee nearer to me, and henceforth My love will have a sense of pity in it, Making it less a worship than before."

"Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. . . . . . . Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore:— I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more."

"True love is but a humble, low born thing, And hath its food served up in earthenware; It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand, Through the every-dayness of this workday world."

"Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib, und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang."

"As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions."

"I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love."

"But thou, through good and evil, praise and blame, Wilt not thou love me for myself alone? Yes, thou wilt love me with exceeding love, And I will tenfold all that love repay; Still smiling, though the tender may reprove, Still faithful, though the trusted may betray."

"When Madelon comes out to serve us drinks, We always know she's coming by her song. And every man he tells his little tale, And Madelon, she listens all day long. Our Madelon is never too severe— A kiss or two is nothing much to her— She laughs us up to love and life and God— Madelon, Madelon, Madelon."

"Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?"

"Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime, il faut aimer ce que l'on a."

": If one does not possess what one loves, one should love what one has."

": I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, "I do not love thee.""

"I do not love thee, Dr. Fell. But why I cannot tell; But this I know full well, I do not love thee, Dr. Fell."

"Love is a flame to burn out human wills, Love is a flame to set the will on fire, Love is a flame to cheat men into mire."

"Great men, Till they have gained their ends, are giants in Their promises, but, those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance. And it is a maxim Allowed among them, so they may deceive, They may swear anything; for the queen of love, As they hold constantly, does never punish, But smile, at lovers' perjuries."

"It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is best to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new."

"I loved you ere I knew you; know you now, And having known you, love you better still."

"He who for love hath undergone The worst that can befall, Is happier thousandfold than one Who never loved at all."

"Such sober certainty of waking bliss."

": The flower called heliotrope turns without ceasing to that star of the day, so also my heart henceforth will turn itself always towards the resplendent stars of your adorable eyes, as towards its only pole."

"L'amour est souvent un fruit de mariage."

"God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love in all he doeth, Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume: The wicked work their woe by looking upon love, and hating it: The righteous find their joys in yearning on its loveliness for ever."

"Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form. In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love."

"I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart, I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art."

"A boat at midnight sent alone To drift upon the moonless sea, A lute, whose leading chord is gone, A wounded bird, that hath but one Imperfect wing to soar upon, Are like what I am, without thee."

"I call love the recognizing of yourself in the other, and yourself your essential self."

"The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack, and incompleteness that is part of the human condition in its unredeemed and unenlightened state."