Love Quotes

1. A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. Frank Howard Clark


2. A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. Bil Keane


3. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Ingrid Bergman


4. A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. Rupert Brooke


5. A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. Thomas Carlyle


6. A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. Boethius


7. A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. George Jean Nathan


8. A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. Henri B. Stendhal


9. A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. Honore de Balzac


10. diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. Francois de La Rochefoucauld


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


12. All mankind love a lover. Ralph Waldo Emerson


13. As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. William Shakespeare


14. At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato


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


16. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu


17. But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken. Pedro Calderon de la Barca


18. Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? Richard Bach


19. Do all things with love. Og Mandino


20. love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. George Bernard Shaw


21. For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. Pedro Calderon de la Barca


22. For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. Boethius


23. For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. Judy Garland


24. Fortune and love favor the brave. Ovid


25. Friendship is Love without his wings! Lord Byron


26. Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. Charles Caleb Colton


27. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein


28. How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. Barbara Pym


29. I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. Javan


30. I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Mother Teresa


31. I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. George Eliot


32. 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


33. If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good? Boethius


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


35. If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. A. A. Milne


36. If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. Michel de Montaigne


37. If you want to be loved, be lovable. Ovid


38. Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Erich Fromm


39. In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. Erich Fromm


40. It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Forgiveness Quotes

1. A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed. Alexander Chase


2. Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde


3. For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. Adlai E. Stevenson


4. Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. Ausonius


5. Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. John F. Kennedy


6. Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting. Peter Allen


7. Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. William Arthur Ward


8. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. Suzanne Somers


9. Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. Indira Gandhi


10. Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. Dag Hammarskjold


11. Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. Hannah More


12. Forgiveness is the final form of love. Reinhold Niebuhr


13. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Mark Twain


14. Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. George MacDonald


15. Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. Hannah Arendt


16. Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. Saint Augustine


17. Forgiveness means letting go of the past. Gerald Jampolsky


18. God will forgive me. It's his job. Heinrich Heine


19. He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. Thomas Fuller


20. Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. Jean Paul


21. I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. Henry Ward Beecher


22. I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget. Chaim Herzog


23. If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. Friedrich Nietzsche


24. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake


25. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. John Dryden


26. It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. Grace Hopper


27. It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited. Lewis B. Smedes


28. It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him. Olin Miller


29. It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them. Lana Turner


30. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. Norman Cousins


31. More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion. Alexander Chase


32. Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


33. Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. Marlene Dietrich


34. One forgives to the degree that one loves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld


35. Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Garrison Keillor


36. The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. William Blake


37. The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. Elbert Hubbard


38. The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible. Alexander Chase


39. The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. Oscar Wilde


40. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mohandas Gandhi

Friendship Quotes contd..

1. I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. Robert Brault
2. If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. George MacDonald
3. If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. Alice Duer Miller
4. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. Albert Schweitzer
5. It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. Mignon McLaughlin
6. It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. Epicurus
7. It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. It takes a long time to grow an old friend. John Leonard
9. It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. Marlene Dietrich
10. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
11. Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. Oprah Winfrey
12. Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. Emil Ludwig
13. Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
14. Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. Samuel Pepys
15. Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. Plautus
16. One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. George Santayana
17. She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. Toni Morrison
18. Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. Margaret Lee Runbeck
19. Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. Francesco Guicciardini
20. The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. William Blake

Friendship Quotes

1. A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Elbert Hubbard
2. A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. Pam Brown
3. A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia
5. A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. Arnold H. Glasow
6. An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. Buddha
7. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. George Washington
8. But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. Thomas Jefferson
9. Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. Alice Duer Miller
10. Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you. Alice Duer Miller
11. Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. Shirley MacLaine
12. Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle
13. Friendship is one mind in two bodies. Mencius
14. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. C. S. Lewis
15. Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. Dag Hammarskjold
16. Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. Muhammad Ali
17. I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Katherine Mansfield
18. I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Plutarch
19. I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. Thomas A. Edison

Funny quotes contd..

1. Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did. Bette Davis
2. By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. Mark Twain
3. California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange. Fred Allen
4. Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely. P. J. O'Rourke
5. Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country. Steven Wright
6. Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. Steven Wright
7. Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day. Jay Leno
8. Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. George Burns
9. Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. Robert Benchley
10. Electricity is really just organized lightning. George Carlin
11. Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. Josh Billings
12. Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. P. J. O'Rourke
13. Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. Steven Wright
14. Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. Victor Hugo
15. Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. Bill Cosby
16. Food is an important part of a balanced diet. Fran Lebowitz
17. For your information, I would like to ask a question. Samuel Goldwyn
18. Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. Mark Twain
19. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. Mark Twain
20. God did not intend religion to be an exercise club. Naguib Mahfouz

Funny Quotes

1. A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx
2. A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. Josh Billings
3. A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. Erma Bombeck
4. A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw
5. A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. Groucho Marx
6. A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live. Bob Hope
7. A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. H. L. Mencken
8. A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths. Steven Wright
9. A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. Yogi Berra
10. word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. Bill Cosby
11. Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you. Satchel Paige
12. Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse. Groucho Marx
13. All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height. Casey Stengel
14. All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. Charles M. Schulz
15. Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. Bill Cosby
16. Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid. Hedy Lamarr
17. Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. Groucho Marx
18. As I get older, I just prefer to knit. Tracey Ullman
19. Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward. Marilyn vos Savant
20. Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. Mae West