Quotable Quotes (7 page)

—
M
ALCOLM
M
UGGERIDGE

in
The Observer
(London)

 

So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.

—
H
ECTOR
B
IANCIOTTI

Sans La Misericorde Du Christ

 

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

—
K
ATHARINE
H
EPBURN

 

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

—
M
ELANIE
C
LARK

 

It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.

—
M
AMIE
V
AN
D
OREN

 

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open, and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

—
D
OROTHY
P
ARKER

 

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.

—
H
ANS
N
OUWENS

 

Love letters are the campaign promises of the heart.

—
R
OBERT
F
RIEDMAN

 

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.

—
A
NNE
M
ORROW
L
INDBERGH

 

Love and time—those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.

—
G
ARY
J
ENNINGS

Aztec

 

It's easy to halve the potato where there's love.

—
I
RISH PROVERB

 

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable.

—
R
OBERT
L
OUIS
S
TEVENSON

 

The best proof of love is trust.

—
J
OYCE
B
ROTHERS

 

Love is proud of itself. It leaks out of us even with the tightest security.

—
M
ERRIT
M
ALLOY

Things I Meant to Say to You When We Were Old

 

Let there be spaces in your togetherness / And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

—
K
AHLIL
G
IBRAN

 

Familiarity, truly cultivated, can breed love.

—
J
OYCE
B
ROTHERS

 

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

—
Quoted by J
AMES
T
HURBER
in
Life

 

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.

—
M
OTHER
T
ERESA OF
C
ALCUTTA

 

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the all divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

—
M
ARTIN
L
UTHER

 

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

—
W
ILLA
C
ATHER

Death Comes for the Archbishop

 

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

—
G
.
K
.
C
HESTERTON

 

No disguise can long conceal love where it is, nor feign it where it is not.

—
F
RANÇOIS DE
L
A
R
OCHEFOUCAULD

 

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

—
J
OHANN
W
OLFGANG VON
G
OETHE

 

Him that I love, I wish to be free—even from me.

—
A
NNE
M
ORROW
L
INDBERGH

 

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

—
S
ARA
T
EASDALE

 

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.

—
Quoted by A
LEXANDRA
P
ENNEY
in
Self

 

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him: “What are you going through?”

—
S
IMONE
W
EIL

Waiting for God

 

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

—
P
OPE
J
OHN
P
AUL
II

 

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

—
R
OY
C
ROFT

 

Tell me whom you love, and I'll tell you who you are.

—
C
REOLE PROVERB

 

Love at first sight is easy to understand. It's when two people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes a miracle.

—
S
AM
L
EVENSON

 

Love is not measured by how many times you touch each other but by how many times you reach each other.

—
C
ATHY
M
ORANCY

 

Nobody has ever measured, even the poets, how much a heart can hold.

—
Z
ELDA
F
ITZGERALD

 

Love is a great beautifier.

—
L
OUISA
M
AY
A
LCOTT

 

The purest affection the heart can hold is the honest love of a nine-year-old.

—
H
OLMAN
F
.
D
AY

Up in Maine

 

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

—
K
ATHERINE
M
ANSFIELD

 

Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

—
D
OROTHY
P
ARKER

 

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

—
The Maxims of Marcel Proust

 

Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart.

—
C
HARLES
D
ICKENS

 

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

—
D
AVID
V
ISCOTT,
MD

How to Live With Another Person

 

Seek not every quality in one individual.

—
C
ONFUCIUS

 

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

—
F
RANKLIN
P
.
J
ONES

 

When one loves somebody, everything is clear—where to go, what to do—it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.

—
M
AXIM
G
ORKY

The Zykovs

 

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.

—
J
UNE
M
ASTERS
B
ACHER

Diary of a Loving Heart

 

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

—
E
RICH
F
ROMM

 

Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.

—
W
ALTER
L
IPPMANN

 

When a woman says, “Ah, I could love you if . . .”—fear not, she already loves you.

—
W
ALTER
P
ULITZER

 

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

—
A
RNOLD
H
AULTAIN

Colombo's Canadian Quotations

 

We love because it's the only true adventure.

—
N
IKKI
G
IOVANNI

 

Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.

—
T
ONY
S
NOW

in Detroit
News

 

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

—
B
EN
H
ECHT

 

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

—
C
HARLES
M
ORGAN

The Fountain

 

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

—
T
HÉOPHILE
G
AUTIER

 

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

—
P
EARL
B
AILEY

 

Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.

—
L
ANGSTON HUGHES

 

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

—
G
EORGE
W
ASHINGTON
C
ARVER

 

Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

—
W
.
S
TANLEY
M
OONEYHAM

Come Walk the World

 

The whole worth of a kind deed lies in the love that inspires it.

—
T
HE
T
ALMUD

 

A baby is born with a need to be loved—and never outgrows it.

—
F
RANK
A
.
C
LARK

 

I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved.

—
S
CHILLER

 

A
MARRIED
COUPLE
 . . .

 

A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that hasn't started yet.

—
G
EORGE
B
URNS

Gracie: A Love Story

 

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

—
S
YDNEY
S
MITH

 

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

—
H
ELEN
R
OWLAND

Violets and Vinegar

 

Marriage should be a duet—when one sings, the other claps.

—
J
OE
M
URRAY

 

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

—
P
ETER
D
E
V
RIES

The Tunnel of Love

 

Whoever thinks marriage is a 50–50 proposition doesn't know the half of it.

—
F
RANKLIN
P
.
J
ONES

in
Quote Magazine

 

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

—
A
NDRÉ
M
AUROIS

The Art of Living

 

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

—
D
ON
F
RASER

 

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

—
D
OUG
L
ARSON

 

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

—
J
UDITH
V
IORST

in
Redbook

 

Marriage is a covered dish.

—
S
WISS PROVERB

 

Love, honor and negotiate.

—
A
LAN
L
OY
M
C
G
INNIS

The Romance Factor