Love quotes IV

Martial AD c.40-c.104

Epigrammata

I don't love you Sabidius, and I can't tell you why;
All I can tell you is this, that I don't love you.

Martineau Harriet 1802-1876

Society in America

Anyone must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Marvell Andrew 1621-1678

„To His coy Mistress"

I would
Love you ten years before the flood:
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow.

Marvell Andrew 1621-1678

„The Definition of Love"

My love is of a birth as rare
As ´tis for object strange and high:
It was begotten by Despair
Upon Impossibility.

Magnanimous Despair alone
Could show me so divine a thing.
Where feeble Hope could ne'er have flown
But vainly flapped its tinsel wing.

Marx Groucho 1895-1977

in A Night in Casablanca

„Send two dozen roses to Room 424 and put ´Emily, I love you' on the back of the bill."

Masson Tom

You can always get someone to love you - even if you have to do it yourself.

Maugham W. Somerset 1874-1965

(attributed)

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

Maugham W. Somerset 1874-1965

The Moon and Sixpence

Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance.

Mauriac François 1885-1970

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

Mauriac François 1885-1970

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

May Rollo

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

Mayakovsky Vladimir 1893-1930

„Letter ... to Comrade Kostorov on Nature of Love"

To us love says humming that the heart's stalled motor has begun working again.

Mayakovsky Vladimir 1893-1930

(from unfinished poem, and in suicide letter)

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.
You and I, we are quits, and there is no point in listing mutual pains, sorrows, and hurts.

Mencken H.L. 1880-1956

Chrestomathy

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Menninger Karl

Love cures people; both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Meredith George 1828-1909

„Love in the Valley"

She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer,
Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!

Meredith Owen 1831-1891

Lucile

We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience, and live
without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live
without books;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
He may live without books, - what is knowledge
but grieving?
He may live without hope, - what is hope but
deceiving?
He may live without love, - what is passion but
pining?
But where is the man that can live without dining?

Millay Edna St Vincent 1892-1950

„Passer Mortuus Est"

After all, my erstwhile dear,
My no longer cherished,
Need we say it was not love,
Now that love is perished?

Miller Henry 1891-1980

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.

Milton John 1608-1674

Paradise Lost

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source
Of human offspring, sole propriety
In Paradise of all things common else.

Milton John 1608-1674

Paradise Lost
Freely we serve,
Because we freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

Milton John 1608-1674

Paradise Lost

She fair, divinely fair, fit love for gods.

Milton John 1608-1674

Paradise Lost

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st
Live well, how long or short permit to heaven.

Milton John 1608-1674

Samson Agonistes

Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power,
After offence returning, to regain
Love once possessed.

Mitchell Langdon

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

Moliére 1622-1673

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

Moore Thomas 1779-1852

„Love's Young Dream"

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.
Moreau Jean
Age does not protect you from love but love
to some extent protects you from age.

Mottoes and Slogans

(student slogan, 1960s)

Make love, not war.

Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Murdoch Dame Iris 1919-

„The Sublime and the Good"

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Napoléon I (Bonaparte) 1769-1821

Letter to Empress Josephine (justifying divorce)

I still love you, but ...

Nash Ogden 1902-1971

„Plea for Less Malice Toward None"

Any kiddie in school can love live like a fool,
But hating, my boy, is an art.

Nathan George Jean 1882-1958

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan George Jean 1882-1958

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Needham Richard J.

Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.

O'donnell Emmett

Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.

Ouida 1839-1908

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Ovid 43 BC-AD c.17

Remedia Amoris

You who seek an end of love, love will yield to business: be busy, and you will be safe.

Parker Dorothy 1893-1967

„Comment"

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania.

Parker Dorothy 1893-1967

„Inventory"

Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.

Pasternak Boris 1890-1960

Doctor Zhivago

Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.

Pasternak Boris 1890-1960

Doctor Zhivago

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Patmore Coventry 1823-1896

The Angel in the House

We love, Fool, for the good we do,
Not that which unto us is done!

Peacock Yhomas Love 1785-1866

„Love and Age"

But though first love's impassioned blindness
Has passed away in colder light,
I still have thought of you with kindness,
And shall do, till our last good-night.

Peele George c.1556-1596

The Hunting of Cupid

What thing is love for (well I wot) love is a thing.
It is a prick, it is a sting,
It is a pretty, pretty thing;
It is a fire, it is a coal
Whose flame creeps in at every hole.

Perelman S.J. 1904-1979

Quotations for Speakers and Writers

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin -
it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Pericles c.495-429 BC

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

Picasso Pablo 1881-1973

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.

Plath Sylvia 1932-1963

„Morning Song"

Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry
Took its place among the elements.

Poe Edgar Allan 1809-1849

„Annabel Lee"

This maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

Pope Alexander 1688-1744

„Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"

Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?

Pope Alexander 1688-1744

Eloisa to Abelard

Oh happy state! when souls each other draw,
When love is liberty, and nature, law:
All then is full, possessing, and possessed,
No craving void left aching in the breast.

Porter Cole 1891-1964

„Let's Do It"