Lovely Quotes About Love

Lovely Quotes About Love The wondrous feeling of being in love, they say, cannot be expressed in words alone. But this hasn't stopped us from trying. Oceans of ink have been spilled in hopes of capturing love in all its many forms. We offer you this sampling of our favorite attempts:

She looked at him, as one who awakes: The past was a sleep, and her life began. --Robert Browning (1812 - 1889), British poet. From Men and Women, "The Statue and the Bust." But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love for ever. --Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), Scottish poet and songwriter. From "Ae Fond Kiss."

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. --Attributed to Mae West (1892 - 1980), U.S. actor and comedian.

JULIET: My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. --William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), English poet and playwright. From Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2. I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally. --Zelda Fitzgerald (1900 - 1948), U.S. writer. From a letter to her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love. --Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910), Russian writer. From What Men Live By and Other Tales. Drink to me with your eyes alone ... And if you will, take the cup to your lips and fill it with kisses, and give it so to me." --Flavius Philostratus (170 - 245), Greek writer. From "Letter 24." Give me but what this ribband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round. --Edmund Waller (1606 - 1687), English poet. From "On a Girdle."

I 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 (1809 - 1892), British poet. From "In Memoriam A. H. H." (Arthur Henry Hallam was the fiancé of Tennyson's sister Emily and died suddenly in September 1833.) Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me. --A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936), British poet and classicist. From "A Shropshire Lad."

The trick is to love somebody ... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently. --Attributed to James Baldwin (1924 - 1987), U.S. writer and civil-rights activist. Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. --Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944), French writer and aviator. From Wind, Sand and Stars.

HELENA: Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. --William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), English poet and playwright. From A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 1, Scene 1. The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love. --Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884 - 1937), Russian writer. From "The Fisher of Men." (see Soviet Literature)

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away. --Attributed to Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), U.S. writer and wit. To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. --Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), British philosopher and mathematician. From Marriage and Morals.

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners. --Zora Neale Hurston (1891 - 1960), U.S. writer and folklorist. From Moses: Man of the Mountain. What love is, if thou wouldst be taught, Thy heart must teach alone-Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. --Friedrich Halm (1806 - 1871), German playwright and poet. From Ingomar the Barbarian (Maria Lovell, tr.).

You must always be a-waggle with LOVE. --D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930), British writer. Referring to a dog in "Bibbles," from The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence. When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians and linguists? --Nizar Qabbani (1923 - 1998), Syrian poet. From Modern Arabic Poetry, "Language" (Salma Khadra Jayyusi, ed.).

You're the Nile, You're the Tower of Pisa, You're the smile On the Mona Lisa... But if, baby, I'm the bottom you're the top! --Cole Porter (1893 - 1964), U.S. songwriter and composer. Song lyric from "You're the Top." Who told you there was no such thing as real, true, eternal love? Cut out his lying tongue! --Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940), Russian novelist and playwright. From The Master and Margarita (Michael Glenny, tr.).

As a mummy, you probably adore your girls. You can dress up your girls, doll them up, and watch in fascination at the ways they try to mimic a little woman. Their innocence and endearing acts probably left you wondering what kind of woman will your girl grow up to be someday. Would she be pretty? Would she be happy? Would she find a good man? Sprinkle these beautiful girl quotes into your journals, cards, scrapbooks and letters! Let these quotes about girls express your deep emotions about the joy of having your girls in your life. Celebrate the charm of your girls with these girl quotes!

A baby girl...one of the most beautiful miracles in life, one of the greatest joys we can ever know, and one of the reasons why there is a little extra sunshine, laughter and happiness in your world today. -- Author Unknown A Daughter Is... ...your greatest source of pride and your greatest hope for the future... The happiest moment of your life was the day she was introduced to the world. -- Bettie Meschler

A daughter is a bundle of firsts that excite and delight, giggles that come from deep inside and are always contagious, everything wonderful and precious and your love for her knows no bounds. -- Barbara Cage A daughter is a miracle that never ceases to be miraculous...full of beauty and forever beautiful...loving and caring and truly amazing. -- Deanna Beisser A daughter is a treasure - and a cause of sleeplessness. -- Ben Sirach A daughter is one of the most beautiful gifts this world has to give. -- Laurel Atherton A girl without freckles is like a night without stars. -- Author Unknown A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. she can jitter around, and stomp, and make funny noises that frazzle your nerves yet just when you open your mouth she stands there demure with that special look in her eyes. A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot. -- Alan Beck A tiny daughter gives parents a life in a climate of perpetual wonder. -- Pierre Doucet A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other. -- George Eliot Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind. -- Matthew Prior Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character. -- Jane Seymour Courage, determination, pride...that's what little girls are made of. -- Author Unknown Daughters are love coming from a mother vine. -- Author Unknown Girls are giggles with freckles all over them. -- Author Unknown Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes. -- Oliver Goldsmith

Girls play by the golden rule... We won the gold! We Rule! -- Author Unknown Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye. In every gesture. dignity and love. -- John Milton Her smile beams like sunshine, which fills our hearts with love. -- Birgit B. How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none. -- Louis L'Amour How wonderful to meet such a natural little girl. She knows what she wants and she asks for it. Not like these over-civilized little pets that have to go through analysis before they can choose an ice cream soda. -- John Lee Mahin I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl. I want to rule the world. -- Madonna In every girl is a goddess. -- Francesca Lia Block In love to our wives there is desire, to our sons there is ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. -- Joseph Addison Invest in the future; have a child and teach her well. -- Author Unknown It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time. -- Tallulah Bankhead Like star dust glistening on fairies' wings Little girls dreams are of magical things. -- Sherry Larson Little girls are just angels who haven't yet spread their wings. -- Author Unknown Little girls are precious gifts, wrapped in love serene. Their dresses tied with sashes and futures tied with dreams. -- Author Unknown Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit of angelshine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always enough left to lasso your heart. . . -- Alan Beck

Little girls bring such delight with hearts so warm and smiles so bright! -- Author Unknown Little girls dance their way into your heart, whirling on the tips of angel wings, scattering gold dust & kisses in our paths. -- Author Unknown Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse. -- Robert A. Heinlein My name is NO NO but grandma calls me precious. -- Author Unknown Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little. -- Mason Cooley Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love. -- Margaret E. Sangster Princesses wear crowns to remind them that they are smart and beautiful because some days it's easy to forget. -- Author Unknown Remember when all we had to do was to keep our ponytails straight and catch fireflies? -- Author Unknown She is my joy and heart's delight. -- Robert Wever She will fill our lives with sunshine... And our hearts with love. -- Author Unknown She's the one all the boys loved because she lit up the room, and she's the one all the girls hated for the very same reason. -- S. Brewer Sugar and spice and everything nice, ribbons and curls because she's a girl. -- Author Unknown The beauty of a girl cannot be mimicked, fabricated, or created by human means, it only occurs naturally. -- Pam Callaghan The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls. -- Phyllis McGinley The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her value without reference to gender, her respect as a person with

potential. -- Emilie Buchwald There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow. -- Thomas Campion There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl. -- Joan Rivers What I wanted most for my daughter was that she be able to soar confidently in her own sky, whatever that may be. -- Helen Claes What the daughter does, the mother did. -- Jewish Proverb When I look at my daughter I see myself...only better. -- Author Unknown When we asked for a daughter we were sent a princess. -- Sally Huss When you educate a man, you educate an individual, but when you educate a woman, you educate a nation. -- Johnetta B. Cole Where shall we see a better daughter or a kinder sister or a truer friend. -- Jane Austen You can have fun with a son, But you got to be a father to a girl. -- Oscar Hammerstein II A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself - to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart. -- Leo F. Buscaglia A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart. -- Author Unknown Above all things I believe in love. Love is like oxygen. Love is a many-splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love! -- From the movie Moulin Rouge All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. -- Leo Tolstoy

And here is my heart which beats only for you. -- Paul Verlaine And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet... -- Plato Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu Believe in the importance of love, for it is the strength an beauty that brings music to our souls. -- Author Unknown But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. -- Robert Burns Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth. -- Author Unknown Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? -- Oscar Hammerstein 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 Don’t frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile. -- Anonymous Don't hug me, it only makes me want to never let go. -- Allison Mosher Falling in love with someone isn't always going to be easy... Anger... tears... laughter.. It's when you want to be together despite it all. That's when you truly love another. I'm sure of it. -- Author Unknown For all that you are and all that you do, and for the many ways you make my heart sing. -- Leland Thomas

Goodnight! Goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight til it be morrow. -- William Shakespeare I am so glad that you are here... It helps me realize how beautiful my world is. -- Goethe I believe in a kind of love that brings sailors home from the sea. Made up of seconds and years and the nospace between hands on skin. I cannot believe how much goes on. I can't even cut out enough red hearts to keep up. -- Sarah Mimnaugh I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together. -- Julia Roberts I have learned not to worry about love; But to honor its coming with all my heart. -- Alice Walker I have you. A lover and a friend. You are everything I need. You are the sun, the air I breathe. Without you, life wouldn't be the same. Please don't ever go away. And if you go, then don't forget to take me with you. -- Basia I love her and that's the beginning of everything. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. -- Ray Croft I think we dream so we don't have to be away from one another. If we're in each other's dreams, we'll always be together. -- Hobbes I'm not supposed to love you, I'm not supposed to care, I'm not supposed to live my life wishing you were there. I'm not supposed to wonder where you are or what you do...I'm sorry I can't help myself, I'm in love with you. -- Author Unknown If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Into his nest again, I shall not live in vain. -- Emily Dickinson

If I could give you one gift, I would give you the ability to see yourself as I see you, so you could see how truly special you are. -- Author Unknown If I never met you, I wouldn't like you. If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you. If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you. But I did, I do, and I will. -- Author Unknown If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving. -- Anonymous If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou If you judge people, you have no time to love them. -- Mother Teresa In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. -- Janos Arany In love, there is always one who kisses & one who offers the cheek. -- French proverb In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. -- Mignon McLaughlin In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. -- Hans Nouwens I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. -- Maya Angelou 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 a richness to life that nothing else can bring. -- Oscar Wilde Let love be the sweet elixir that awakens your spirit and moves your soul to dance. -- Author Unknown Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. --Kahlil Gibran

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable. -- Dr. Joyce Brothers Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. -- William Shakespeare Love demands all and has a right to it. -- Beethoven Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. -- Franklin P. Jones Love doesn't sit there like a stone. It has to be made like bread; remade all the time,...made new. -- Le Guin Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away. -- Elbert Hubbard Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything. -- Katharine Hepburn Love is a fan club with only two fans. -- Anonymous Love is a path to the heart that knows its own way. -- Lamar Cole Love is taking a few steps backward (maybe even more)...to give way to the happiness of the person you love. -- Author Unknown Love in its essence is spiritual fire. -- Emanuel Swedenborg Love is a never ending feeling. -- Adeil Prince Love is a sign from the heavens that you are here for a reason. -- J. Ghetto Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. -- Eurpides Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. -- Helen Keller

Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time. -- Kamila Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part in the process. -- Henry Beyle Stendahl Love is like seaweed; even if you have pushed it away, you will not prevent its coming back. -- Nigerian Proverb Love is like the sun coming out of the clouds and warming your soul. -- Author Unknown Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. -- Kay Knudsen Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less. -- Will Moss Love is not something you look for, Love is something you become. -- Langley Love is smiling on the inside and out. -- Jennifer Williams Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. -- Robert A Heinlein Love is the blueprint for happiness. -- Lamar Cole Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. -- Erich Fromm Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perfoms much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. -- Vincent Van Gogh Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away. -- Michael W. Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved. -- Barbara Johnson Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. -- Zelda Fitzgerald Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale. -- Author Unknown Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery See there's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me. -- Gretchen Kemp Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. -- Saint Augustine So, fall asleep love, loved by me....for I know love, I am loved by thee. -- Robert Browning The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. -- Thomas Merton The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. -- J. Krishnamurti The most beautiful things in the world are not seen nor touched. They are felt with the heart. -- Helen Keller The word love can be explained in thousands of ways, but the only word that comes to my mind is you. -- Author Unknown The world is filled with reasons why I love you. -- Author Unknown This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your

being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life. -- Author Unknown To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. -- Samuel Butler True love is like a pair of socks you gotta have two and they've gotta match. -- Author Unknown We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Sam Keen We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. -- Tom Robbins What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. -- Helen Keller What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated. -- Leo Buscaglia When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When you cried you had my urge to hold you. When you said you loved me, you had my heart forever. -- Author Unknown You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete. -- Keith Sweat You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy. -- Author Unknown You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. -- Barbara De Angelis Many authors and movie makers have tried to express the psychological difference between a girl and a boy. The movie "What a Woman Wants" takes you deep into the psyche of girls and

women. In the book, "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus," the author explains gender disparity with the help of biology. But to truly understand the dynamic nature of a girl, you either need to be one, or to live with one. Here are some funny, witty, and insightful girl quotes that help you read her mind.

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Mae West Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

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Allan Beck A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.

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Lewis Carroll I am fond of children -- except boys.

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J. D. Salinger 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.

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Helen Rowland Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her, when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?

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Cher A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.

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Mae West You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.

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Benjamin Franklin To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends.

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Thomas Carlyle If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

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Pope Gregory I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.

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J. D. Salinger If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

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Tara Reid I like when a guy makes me feel like a woman and a little girl at the same time.

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Louise Brooks Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

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Mae West There are no good girls gone wrong -- just bad girls found out.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?

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Albert Einstein Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.

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William Lyon Phelps Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

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Allan Beck Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people.

Money Quote by Benjamin Franklin Remember that time is money. Money Quote by Benjamin Franklin He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. Money Quote by Alexander Pope These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd! Money Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence. Money Quote by Rudyard Kipling But he could n't lie if you paid him and he'd starve before he stole. Money Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce? Money Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill! Money Quote by Benjamin Franklin A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone. Money Quote by Alexander Pope Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place. Money Quote by Charles Dickens Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.

1. Alfred Lord Tennyson

It's better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.

2. Richard Bach

If you love something, set it free; if it comes backs it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was.

3. Cinderella Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?

4. Joan Crawford

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.

5. Theodore M. Hesburgh

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

6. Lisa Hoffman Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.

7. Mother Teresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

8. Philip Barry Love: Two minds without a single thought.

9. Albert Einstein

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.

10. Mark Twain Love: The irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.