‘Twas not my lips you kissed
But my soul
Judy Garland

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Pablo Picasso

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

True love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach (Thanks, Bonnie)

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire

Candle light, moon light, star light,
The brightest glow is from love light.
Grey Livingston

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.
Author Unknown

A kiss, when all is said, what is it?
A rosy dot placed on the “i” in loving;
‘Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
Edmond Rostand

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.
Author Unknown

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

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you.
Author Unknown

You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well.
Author Unknown

Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart.
Author Unknown

I climbed up the door and opened the stairs,
Said my pajamas and put on my prayers,
Then I turned off the bed and crawled into the light
All because you kissed me goodnight!
Author Unknown

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.
Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

Are we not like two volumes of one book?
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Flavia Weedn, Forever, © Flavia.com

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
Mark Overby

Love – a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.
Author Unknown

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, 1595

When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.
Author Unknown

Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life
Lord Byron

Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Dr. Karl Menninger

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
La Rochefoucauld

Love is a many splendid thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!
Moulin Rouge (Movie)

Love is not a matter of counting the years, But making the years count.
by Michelle St. Amand

A mighty pain to love it is, and ’tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.
Abraham Crowley

True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.
Alexandre Dumas Père

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
David Byrne

Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Eva Gabor

Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved.
Christopher Paul Rubero

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670

I’m so in love, every time I look at you my soul gets dizzy.
Jaesse Tyler

We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.
Author Unknown

Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.
Kay Knudsen

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.
Author Unknown

True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall – but you are there to catch them.
Author Unknown

For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Rosemonde Gerard

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Author Unknown

You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Dr. Seuss

Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.
M*A*S*H, Hawkeye

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Moore

We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.
Quoted by Alexandra Penney in Self

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Ben Hecht

I love you like crazy, baby
‘Cuz I’d go crazy without you.
Pixie Foudre

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke

Even at midnight the sun was still bright,
All because you kissed me goodnight!
Author Unknown

When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
Natalie Clifford Barney

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
John Bulwer

Love is not singular except in syllable.
Marvin Taylor

Ah me! why may not love and life be one?
Henry Timrod

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
Leo Tolstoy

Love me and the world is mine.
David Reed

The love game is never called off on account of darkness.
Tom Masson

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Brontë

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honoré de Balzac

Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.
George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate

I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,
After the day’s great sun.
Charles Hanson Towne

Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
James Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960

What “love” is I don’t know if it’s not the response of our deepest natures to one another.
William Carlos Williams

Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee,
It passed into thy lifelong regency.
Gilbert Parker

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