Love Quotes: The Wisest, Wittiest . . . and Most Cynical | Psychology Today
Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance. ~ Anonymous
Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen. ~ Anonymous
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. ~ Mae West
Love is a many splintered thing. ~ Proverb
Love and eggs are best when they are fresh. ~ Proverb
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~ Proverb
Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~ Proverb
Love and relationships are truly one of the most paradoxical aspects of being human. For it is in love
that we find the greatest of strengths and the deepest of sorrows. Love can seem to be so fleeting and unachievable, yet it remains well within our reach if we only learn how to embrace its power. To experience true love, we must be willing to open ourselves up and sacrifice part of our heart and part of our soul. We must be willing to give of ourselves freely, and we must be willing to suffer. It is only when we expose our inner selves to the white hot flame of rejection, that love can burn so brightly as to join to souls, melding the two into one, creating a bond that joins forever. It is from this bond that we draw strength eternal and power everlasting. It is in this thing that we call love that we find the means to achieve greatness, both in ourselves and in our lives. ~ Anonymous
In this world of extremes, we can only love too little. ~ Rich Cannarella
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. ~ John Ciardi
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. ~ Voltaire
If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving. ~ Anonymous
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. ~ John Donne
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. ~ Benjamin Franklin
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness, and call it love. ~ Anonymous
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
The one who loves less controls the relationship. ~ Anonymous
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~ Anonymous [frankly, I'm guessing that whoever came up with this one probably pleaded not to be identified!]
True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall--but you are there to catch them. ~ Anonymous
The woman cries before the wedding, the man after. ~ Proverb
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. ~Jean Pierre Claris De Florian
Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. ~ Louise Erdrich
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. ~ Erich Fromm
The love we give away is the only love we keep. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ~ Erica Jong
We are not the same person this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. ~ Thomas Moore
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense. ~ Helen Rowland
Falling in love is so hard on the knees. ~ Aerosmith
Love isn't blind, it's retarded. ~ Don Foster & Susan Beavers
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. ~ William Shakespeare
There is no remedy for love but to love more. ~ Henry David Thoreau
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ~ Oscar Wilde
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. ~ Janos Arany
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. ~ Fyodor Dostoevski
You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ~ Dr Seuss
After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason. ~ Albert Camus
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
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