Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
But such is the irresistible nature of truth,
that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
- Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength,
the latter becomes irresistible.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
True art is characterized by an irresistible
urge in the creative artist.
- Albert Einstein
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery,
I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- Abraham Lincoln
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
- H. L. Mencken
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
Love is like an hourglass,
with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
- Jules Renard
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love is only a dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham
A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)
Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day -
and another, in case it doesn't rain.
- Mae West
Love is loving what your lover loves.
- Anonymous
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed ma hair.
- the movie The Cabin in the Cotton
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous
Love is metaphysical gravity.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
A woman in love can't be reasonable -
or she probably wouldn't be in love.
- Mae West
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
Oh, come on, Shrek, wake up and smell the pheromones!
- the movie Shrek (2001)
Love thy neighbor -
and if he happens to be tall,
debonair and devastating,
it will be that much easier.
- Mae West
My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous
When you are courting a nice girl
an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder
a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
My boyfriend and I broke up.
He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
- Rita Rudner
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
Love is a grave mental disease.
- Plato
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most important words in the English language
are not "I love you" but "It's benign."
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
I want a girl just like good old mom,
who is different in every way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
If love is the answer,
could you please rephrase the question.
- Lily Tomlin
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A big part of letting go is recognizing
when it is time to stay in a situation
and when it is time to move on.
- Darren L. Johnson
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man
is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
He who marries for love without money
has good nights and sorry days.
- Anonymous
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
- Anonymous
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
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