Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense. – e. e. cummings
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love. – Niccolo Machiavelli
First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment. – Maximilian Schell
So, fall asleep love, loved by me… for I know love, I am loved by thee. – Robert Browning
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings. – Helen Hayes
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. – Abraham Joshua Heschel
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. – Iris Murdoch
A flower falls, even though we love it and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. – Dogen
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. – Pearl Bailey
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. – H. L. Mencken
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. – Victor Hugo
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. – Rabindranath Tagore
Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman. – Angelina Jolie
In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. – Paul McCartney
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. – Octavio Paz
People everywhere love Windows. – Bill Gates
Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will. – Dan Millman
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. – Pietro Aretino
