Favourite quotes

No strength within, no respect without.

A bow too much bent is broken.

The beginning is half of the whole.

An accident is often the making of many other accidents.

A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.

Being warned, let's pursue a better course.

Different pursuits suit different ages.

He gives too late who waits to be asked.

True love leaves no traces

If you and I are one

It's lost in our embraces

Like stars against the sun Cohen

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." :)

"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like." St. Augustine (354-430),

"Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude." [i Corinthians]

"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."

Jean Anouilh 1910-1987, French Playwright

"Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd." Louis Aragon 1897-1982, French Poet

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart." Marcus Aurelius (121-80 AD), Roman Emperor

"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

St. Bernard 1090-1153, French Theologian

"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." Jorge Luis Borges 1899-1986, Argentinean Author

"When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master." Robert Bridges 1844-1930, British Poet

"Take away love and our earth is a tomb." Robert Browning 1812-1889, British Poet

"Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child."

Buddha 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism

"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving." Amy Carmichael 1867-? Irish Missionary

"Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all." Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author

"Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it."Maurice Chevalier 1888-1972, French Singer

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never."

Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer

"We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving." Cyril Connolly 1903-1974, British Critic

"To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever." Henry Drummond 1786-1860, British Banke

"Love is love's reward." John Dryden 1631-1700, British Poet

"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears." Woodrow Wyatt - 1918-, British Journalist

"Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle." Crystal Middlemas

"You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world."

David Levesque

"Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful." Daniel Monroe Tuttle