I saw and loved. [ Gibbon ]
To be loved, be lovable. [ Ovid ]
Nature never did betray
The heart that loved her. [ Wordsworth ]
She that is loved is safe. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
If you wish to be loved, love. [ Seneca ]
Had we never loved sae kindly,
Had we never loved sae blindly,
Never met or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken-hearted! [ Burns ]
Until I truly loved, I was alone. [ Mrs. Norton ]
O, weary hearts! O, slumbering eyes!
O, drooping souls whose destinies
Are fraught with fear and pain,
Ye shall be loved again! [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]
I would not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honour more. [ Lovelace ]
Our rocks are rough, but smiling there
The acacia waves her yellow hair,
Lonely and sweet, nor loved the less
For flow'ring in a wilderness. [ Moore ]
To love and not be loved is time lost. [ Italian Proverb ]
We love Him, because He first loved us. [ Bible ]
Oh! never breathe a dead one's name,
When those who loved that one are nigh;
It pours a lava through the frame
That chokes the breast and fills the eye. [ Eliza Cook ]
Ah, Christ, that it were possible
For one short hour to see
The souls we loved, that they might tell us
What and where they be. [ Tennyson ]
And I have loved thee. Ocean! and my joy
Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be
Borne, like thy bubbles, onward; from a boy
I wanton'd with thy breakers. [ Byron ]
If you would be loved, love and be lovable. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one. [ Byron ]
We ought to die when we are no longer loved. [ Mme. Sophie Gray ]
Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee
And cherished thine image for years;
Thou hast taught me at last to forget thee,
In secret, in silence, and tears. [ Mrs. David Porter ]
Sweet letters of the angel tongue,
I've loved ye long and well.
And never have failed in your fragrance sweet
To find some secret spell -
A charm that has bound me with witching power,
For mine is the old belief,
That midst your sweets and midst your bloom,
There's a soul in every leaf! [ M. M. Ballou ]
Let those love now who never loved before,
Let those that always loved now love the more. [ Parnell ]
Ye have a world of light,
When love in the loved rejoices;
But the blind man's home is the house of night.
And its beings are empty voices. [ Bulwer ]
Love strikes one hour - love. Those never loved
Who dream that they loved once. [ Elizabeth B. Browning ]
None ever loved, but at first sight they loved. [ George Chapman ]
The best of men have ever loved repose;
They hate to mingle in the filthy fray;
Where the soul sours, and gradual rancour grows,
Imbitter'd more from peevish day to day. [ Thomson ]
In life you loved me not, in death you bewail me. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Over the river they beckon to me,
Loved ones who've crossed to the farther side;
The gleam of their snowy robes I see.
But their voices are drowned in the dashing tide. [ Nancy A. W. Priest ]
He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;
Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading;
Lofty and sour to them that loved him not;
But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer. [ William Shakespeare, Henry VIII ]
The fountain of my heart dried up within me, -
With nought that loved me, and with nought to love,
I stood upon the desert earth alone.
And in that deep and utter agony,
Though then, then even most unfit to die
I fell upon my knees and prayed for death. [ Maturin ]
A lover is loved most, a wife best, a mother always.
Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove;
No! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me proved;
I never writ, nor no man ever loved. [ William Shakespeare ]
The heart that had never loved was the first atheist. [ L. S. Mercier ]
I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]
Men would be saints if they loved God as they love women. [ Saint Thomas ]
I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved. [ Schiller ]
To be loved is to receive the greatest of all compliments. [ Mme. Necker ]
Who of us has not shed tears over the tomb of a loved one! [ Chateaubriand ]
Truth is to be loved purely and solely because it is true. [ Carlyle ]
The greatest tyranny is to love where we are not loved again. [ Balzac ]
Woman divine that they are loved long before it is told them. [ Marivaux ]
The husband who is not loved will pay for it dearly, some day. [ Proverb ]
It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved. [ Hazlitt ]
Flowers that come from a loved hand are more prized than diamonds.
The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console us. [ Arsène Houssaye ]
Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy. [ George Sand ]
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. [ Tennyson ]
Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved. [ Alfred de Musset ]
Sensitive people wish to be loved; vain people wish only to be preferred. [ Levis ]
A woman can be held by no stronger tie than the knowledge that she is loved. [ Mme. de Motteville ]
A father or a brother may be hated zealously, and loved civilly or naturally. [ Milton ]
I never was on the dull, tame shore, but I loved the great sea more and more. [ Barry Cornwall ]
The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always. [ Joubert ]
A woman by whom we are loved is a vanity; a woman whom we love is a religion. [ E. de Girardin ]
Better to have never loved, than to have loved unhappily, or to have half loved. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love. [ Chamfort ]
Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave. [ Lowell ]
The misfortune of those who have loved is that they can find nothing to replace love. [ Duclos ]
The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth. [ Arsene Houssaye ]
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
If for anything he loved greatness, it was because therein he might exercise his goodness. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion. [ Helvetius ]
The selfish, loving only themselves, are loved by no one: so, selfishness is moral suicide. [ De Gaston ]
It is not always like to like in love. Titania loved the weaver Bottom, with the ass's head. [ Anthony Trollope ]
When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved. [ Mme. Necker ]
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. [ Lamartine ]
Who that has loved knows not the tender tale which flowers reveal, when lips are coy to tell? [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
It is a misfortune for a woman never to be loved, but it is a humiliation to be loved no more. [ Montesquieu ]
The greatest misfortune one can wish his enemy is that he may love without being loved in return. [ Labouisse ]
Power is detested, and miserable is the life of him who wishes rather to be feared than to be loved. [ Nepos ]
Hateful is the power and pitiable is the life of those who wish to be feared rather than to be loved. [ Nepos ]
There are three things that I have always loved and have never understood: Painting, Music, and Woman. [ Fontanelle ]
We have sometimes loved so much that there is nothing left in our hearts that enables us to love again. [ Rochebrune ]
When death consents to let us live a long time, it takes successively as hostages all those we have loved. [ Mme. Necker ]
Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. [ St. John ]
A lover who is no longer loved is still good for something: he serves to hide the one who has replaced him.
One dies twice: to cease to live is nothing, but to cease to love and to be loved is an insupportable death. [ Voltaire ]
Life is to be fortified by many friendships; to love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. [ S. Smith ]
The remembrance of the good done those we have loved, is the only consolation left us when we have lost them. [ Demoustier ]
Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Books are loved by some merely as elegant combinations of thought; by others as a means of exercising the intellect. [ Lord Dudley ]
He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked. [ Macaulay ]
When our friends die, in proportion as we loved them, we die with them - we go with them. We are not wholly of the earth. [ William Ellery Channing ]
One of the most effectual ways of pleasing and of making one's self loved is to be cheerful: joy softens more hearts than tears. [ Mme. de Sartory ]
There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost. [ Beaconsfield ]
Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it. [ Macaulay ]
When we imagine that we love, it is the presence of the loved one that deceives us: when we truly love, it is absence that proves it. [ Lingrie ]
No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again. [ John Ruskin ]
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection, - they have many friends and few enemies. [ Wendell Phillips ]
The youth longs so to love, the maiden so to be loved; ah! why does there spring out of this holiest of all our instincts such agonising pain? [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
It was in his own home that Fielding knew and loved her (Amelia); from his own wife that he drew the most charming character in English fiction. [ Thackeray ]
The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved; and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing. [ Beecher ]
The destiny of women is to please, to be amiable, and to be loved. Those who do not love them are still more in the wrong than those who love them too much. [ Rochebrune ]
Women live only in the emotion that love gives. An old lady confessed that she had loved much,when young: Ah!
she exclaimed, the exquisite pain of those days!
[ A. Houssaye ]
Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace: and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest. [ Landor ]
That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all - the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved. [ Mark Twain's last words, written on a note by his death bed ]
There are no unions that have not their dark days; but, when we have loved each other, we remember it always, and those sweet remembrances, that the heart accumulates, survive love like twilight.
We are more jealous of frivolous accomplishments with brilliant success, than of the most estimable qualities without. Dr. Johnson envied Garrick, whom he despised, and ridiculed Goldsmith, whom he loved. [ Hazlitt ]
It is the violence of their ideas and the blind haste of their passion that make men awkward when with women. A man who has blunted a little his sensations, at first studies to please rather than to be loved. [ George Sand ]
How dear the sure counsel of a present friend, whose heavenly power failing, the lonely one sinks in silence; for earnest thought and resolution, locked within his breast, are slowly ripened; the presence of the loved one soon warms them into being. [ Goethe ]
The kindness of Christmas is the kindness of Christ. To know that God so loved us as to give us His Son for our dearest Brother, has brought human affection to its highest tide on the day of that Brother's birth. If God so loved us, how can we help loving one another? [ Maltbie Babcock ]
None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances. [ Bovee ]
He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, Dust to dust,
some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, I'll be waiting for you in heaven - with a gun.
[ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Never! never has one forgotten his pure, right educated mother. On the blue mountains of our dim childhood, toward which we ever turn and look, stand the mothers, who marked out to us from thence our life; the most blessed age must be forgotten ere we can forget the warmest heart. You wish, O women! to be ardently loved, and forever, even till death! Be, then, the mothers of your children. [ Richter ]
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing. A forfeited bond twinkles in the hard smile. But follow him to an altar-piece. His Apostle has caught a stray tint from his usurer. Features of exquisite beauty are seen and loved; but the old nature of avarice frets under the glow of devotion. Pathos staggers on the edge of farce. [ Willmott ]