1. The more one judges, the less one loves. - Honore de Balzac 

2. Love is the poetry of the senses. - Honore de Balzac 

3. The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other. - Honore de Balzac 

4. True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. - Honore de Balzac 

5. Love is love's reward. - John Dryden 

6. Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. - John Dryden 

7. But love's a malady without a cure. - John Dryden 

8. Love is blind. - Geoffrey Chaucer 

9. Love is what you've been through with somebody. - James Thurber 

10. Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. - David Byrne 

11. Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

12. Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. - Nathaniel Hawthorne 

13. Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. - Henry Van Dyke

14. Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest. - Henry Van Dyke 

15. I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy. - Isabel Allende 

16. A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. - Joseph Joubert 

17. I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. - Judy Garland 

18. The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. - William Hazlitt 

19. The art of love is largely the art of persistence. - Albert Ellis

20. Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole. - Samuel Richardson 

21. All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. - Julie Andrews 

22. A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. - Brendan Behan 

23. Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery. - Fulton J. Sheen 

24. If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

25. Who so loves believes the impossible. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

26. Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible. - Thomas a Kempis 

27. He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver. - Thomas a Kempis 

28. To be able to say how much love, is love but little. - Petrarch 

29. Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. - Petrarch 

30. Do you have to have a reason for loving? - Brigitte Bardot 

31. At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. - Jean de la Bruyere 

32. The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. - Jean de la Bruyere 

33. There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. - Friedrich Schiller 

34. The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men. - John Henry Newman 

35. Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow. - James M. Barrie 

36. The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble. - James M. Barrie 

37. Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. - Jose Ortega y Gasset 

38. Love is always being given where it is not required. - E. M. Forster 

39. Ultimately love is everything. - M. Scott Peck 

40. The first duty of love is to listen. - Paul Tillich 

41. We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth. - Virginia Satir 

42. There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. - Lorraine Hansberry 

43. There are never enough I Love You's. - Lenny Bruce 

44. A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. - Stendhal 

45. People happy in love have an air of intensity. - Stendhal 

46. Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? - Christopher Marlowe 

47. Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. - Ann Landers 

48. There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save. - Carlos Santana 

49. Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. - Barbara De Angelis 

50. Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred. - Barbara De Angelis 

51. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. - David Viscott 

52. We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. - Madame de Stael 

53. In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable. - Madame de Stael 

54. Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. - Harry Emerson Fosdick 

55. Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. - Joseph Conrad 

56. True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility. - Bryant H. McGill 

57. Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it. - Laura Ingalls Wilder 

58. Though lovers be lost, love shall not. - Dylan Thomas 

59. The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving. - Edwin Louis Cole

60. Choose your love, Love your choice. - Thomas S. Monson 

61. Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. - Jules Renard 

62. I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. - Robert Fulghum 

63. We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving. - Cyril Connolly 

64. Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. - Theodor W. Adorno 

65. Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. - Theodor W. Adorno 

66. I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. - J. D. Salinger 

67. There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love. - Reese Witherspoon 

68. Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. - Thornton Wilder 

69. Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you. - Loretta Young 

70. Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. - William Congreve 

71. The best proof of love is trust. - Joyce Brothers 

72. 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 

73. No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream. - Thomas Moore 

74. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. - Jeanette Winterson 

75. Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. - Rita Rudner 

76. Love dies only when growth stops. - Pearl S. Buck 

77. Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free. - Taraji P. Henson 

78. Love is being stupid together. - Paul Valery 

79. Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. - Franklin P. Jones 

80. Love has no age, no limit; and no death. - John Galsworthy 

81. In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. - Antonio Porchia 

82. When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water. - Gwendolyn Brooks 

83. Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love. - Marc Chagall 

84. In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. - Marc Chagall 

85. Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno 

86. It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. - Miguel de Unamuno 

87. When love is not madness, it is not love. - Pedro Calderon de la Barca 

88. I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. - Vladimir Nabokov 

89. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. - Ferdinand Foch 

90. Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. - Peter Ustinov 

91. No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. - Mignon McLaughlin 

92. Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. - Mortimer Adler 

93. Love without conversation is impossible. - Mortimer Adler 

94. The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God. - Mortimer Adler 

95. Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love. - William Law 

96. Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? - Igor Stravinsky 

97. What force is more potent than love? - Igor Stravinsky 

98. The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. - Martin Buber 

99. People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. - Ken Kesey 

100. Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all. - Ken Kesey