Like loves like. [ Proverb ]
He who loves, fears. [ Italian Proverb ]
He who loves, believes. [ Italian Proverb ]
As a cat loves mustard. [ Proverb ]
The bird loves her nest. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Truth loves to go naked. [ Proverb ]
Truth loves open dealing. [ William Shakespeare, Henry VIII ]
He who loves most has most. [ Henry van Dyke ]
He that loves glass without G,
Take away L and that is he. [ Proverb ]
Feeling loves a subdued light. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
Fear loves the idea of danger. [ Joubert ]
Who the race of men doth love,
Loves also him above. [ Lewis Morris ]
He who loves little dares little. [ Proverb ]
Every one talks of what he loves. [ Proverb ]
He loves his old hereditary trees. [ Cowley ]
Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. [ Byron ]
It is liberty that every one loves. [ Proverb ]
No one loves the man whom he fears. [ Aristotle ]
Every ass loves to hear himself bray. [ Proverb ]
The champion true
Loves victory more when, dim in view,
He sees her glories gild afar
The dusky edge of stubborn war,
Than if th' untrodden bloodless field
The harvest of her laurels yield. [ Keble ]
The world loves a spice of wickedness. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Those that God loves do not live long. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
What is excellent,
As God lives, is permanent;
Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain,
Heart's love will meet thee again. [ Emerson ]
Stern winter loves a dirge-like sound. [ Wordsworth ]
He who loves praise, loves temptation. [ Thomas Wilson ]
Who loves law, dies either mad or poor. [ Middleton ]
We always come back to our first loves. [ Etienne ]
He that loves the tree loves the branch. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The more one judges, the less one loves. [ Balzac ]
He loves mutton well that eats the wool. [ Proverb ]
Stronger than thunder's winged force
All-powerful gold can speed its course;
Through watchful guards its passage make,
And loves through solid walls do break. [ Francis ]
No man flatters the woman he truly loves. [ Tuckermann ]
I have mental joys and mental health.
Mental friends and mental wealth,
I've a wife that I love and that loves me;
I've all but riches bodily. [ Wm. Blake ]
There are no fine prisons, nor ugly loves. [ Proverb ]
Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow. [ Young ]
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise.
Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares,
The poets, who on earth have made us heirs
Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays. [ Wordsworth ]
The truly generous is the truly wise;
And he who loves not others, lives unblest. [ Horace ]
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse, too. [ Cowper ]
Whom God loves his house is savoury to him. [ Proverb ]
He loves but lightly who his love can tell. [ Petrarch ]
From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks.
Ten thousand little loves and graces spring
To revel in the roses. [ Nicholas Rowe ]
His folded flock secure, the shepherd home
Hies merry-hearted; and by turns relieves
The ruddy milk-maid of her brimming pail;
The beauty whom perhaps his witless heart.
Unknowing what the joy-mixed anguish means,
Sincerely loves, by that best language shown
Of cordial glances, and obliging deeds. [ Thomson ]
Pride loves no man, and is beloved of no man. [ Proverb ]
He loves roast meat well that licks the spit. [ Proverb ]
Faith loves to lean on time's destroying arm. [ Holmes ]
Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved. [ Lamb ]
Affliction is not sent in vain -
From that good God who chastens whom He loves! [ Southey ]
The heart that once truly loves never forgets. [ Proverb ]
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die, no soul shall pity me:
Nay, wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself? [ William Shakespeare ]
To serve thy generation, this thy fate:
Written in- water, swiftly fades thy name;
But he who loves his kind does, first and late,
A work too great for fame. [ Mary Clemmer ]
Nature counts nothing that she meets with base,
But lives and loves in every place. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
For man loves knowledge, and the beams of truth
More welcome touch his understanding's eye,
Than all the blandishments of sound his ear,
Than all of taste his tongue. [ Akenside ]
Dew-drops, Nature's tears, which she
Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.
The sun insists on gladness; but at night,
When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep. [ Bailey ]
Neck or nothing, for the king loves no cripples. [ Proverb ]
He loves bacon well that licks the sow's breech. [ Proverb ]
He that loves himself too much loves an ill man. [ Proverb ]
One may know by his nose what porridge he loves. [ Proverb ]
One loves more the first time, better the second. [ Rochepedre ]
Who has not what he loves, must love what he has. [ Bussy-Rabutin ]
There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. [ South ]
He that plants trees loves others besides himself. [ Proverb ]
Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely. [ Basta ]
The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves. [ Proverb ]
A woman either loves or hates: she knows no medium. [ Syrus ]
Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked. [ Proverb ]
A solitary blessing few can find,
Our joys with those we love are intertwined,
And he whose wakeful tenderness removes
The obstructing thorn that wounds the breast he loves,
Smooths not another's rugged path alone,
But scatters roses to adorn his own.
I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. [ Emerson ]
A woman either loves or hates; there is no alternative. [ Publius Syrus ]
Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer. [ William Shakespeare ]
He hath no mean portion of virtue that loves it in another. [ Proverb ]
He is not a virtuous man that loves it not even in an enemy. [ Proverb ]
One is alone in a crowd when one suffers, or when one loves. [ Rochepedre ]
A woman, when she either loves or hates, will dare anything. [ Proverb ]
The loves of some people are but the result of good suppers. [ Chamfort ]
Nobody loves heartily unless people take pains to prevent it. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
He loves you as a ferret does a rabbit, to make a meal of you. [ Proverb ]
It is astonishing how little one feels poverty when one loves. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
Ah! wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company! [ Cowley ]
There is no more agreeable companion than the woman who loves us. [ Bernardin de St. Pierre ]
He who knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them. [ Confucius ]
Sweet fellowship in shame! One drunkard loves another of the name. [ William Shakespeare ]
Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. [ William Shakespeare ]
The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves. [ Mirabeau ]
All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them. [ Goldsmith ]
A woman full of faith in the one she loves is but a novelist's fancy. [ Balzac ]
He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God. [ Emerson ]
No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
Only in the loves we have for others than ourselves, can we truly live or die. [ Phillips Brooks ]
Hostile is the world, and falsely disposed. In it each one loves himself alone. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Him who lonely loves to seek the distant hills, and there converse with nature. [ Thomson ]
One loves wholly but once - the first time: loves that follow are less involuntary. [ La Bruyere ]
The fool of vanity; for her alone he lives, loves, writes, and dies but to be known. [ Canning ]
In her first passion, woman loves her lover; in all the others, all she loves is love. [ Byron ]
In eastern lands they talk in flowers, and they tell in a garland their loves and cares. [ Percival ]
He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver. [ Thomas a Kempis ]
God is all love; it is He who made everything, and He loves everything that He has made. [ Henry Brooke ]
O, what damned minutes tells he over, who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet strongly loves! [ William Shakespeare ]
A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination. [ Balzac ]
It is as difficult to condemn illicit loves by the laws of nature, as it is easy by human laws. [ Montaigne ]
He who loves, as well as he who dies, needs no other wing by which to soar from earth to heaven. [ Michael Angelo ]
Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her. [ Bovee ]
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of Nature with which she indicates how much she loves us. [ Herve ]
The loves that meet in paradise shall cast out fear; and paradise hath room for you and me and all. [ Christina G. Rossetti ]
Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [ Horace ]
Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived, and has seldom been disappointed. [ Mackenzie ]
At eighteen, one adores at once; at twenty, one loves; at thirty, one desires; at forty, one reflects. [ P. de Kock ]
For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best. [ Sophocles ]
In love quarrels, the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]
Every generous action loves the public view, yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it. [ Cicero ]
Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us, as a parent a child that he loves? [ Fenelon ]
The greatest satisfaction a woman can feel is to know that a man whom many other women love loves her alone.
The heart which truly loves puts not its love aside ... but grows stronger for that which seeks to thwart it. [ Lewis Morris ]
To a father who loves his children victory has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion. [ Napoleon I ]
Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper. [ Chapin ]
Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt. [ Horace ]
He who loves not books before he comes to thirty years of age will hardly love them enough afterward to understand them. [ Earl of Clarendon ]
That two men may be real friends, they must have opposite opinions, similar principles, and different loves and hatreds. [ Chateaubriand ]
If one must be rejected, one succeed, make him my lord within whose faithful breast is fixed my image, and who loves me best. [ Dryden ]
He who cannot feel friendship is alike incapable of love. Let a woman beware of the man who owns that he loves no one but herself. [ Talleyrand ]
Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved. [ Miss Edgeworth ]
Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful. [ Cicero ]
I have thought that in all women's deepest loves, be they ever so full of reverence, there enters sometimes much of the motherly element. [ Miss Muloch ]
Woman seldom hesitates to sacrifice the honest man who loves her, without pleasing her, to the libertine who pleases her, without loving her. [ A. Ricard ]
The woman who loves us is only a woman, but the woman we love is a celestial being whose defects disappear under the prism through which we see her. [ E. de Girardin ]
One loves because he loves: this explanation is, as yet, the most serious and the most decisive that has been found for the solution of this problem.
We know there oft is found an avarice in grief; and the war eye of sorrow loves to gaze upon its secret hoard of treasured woes, and pine in solitude. [ William Mason ]
The cuffs and thumps with which fate, our lady-loves, our friends and foes, put us to the proof, in the mind of a good and resolute man, vanish into air. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
He that loves reading has everything within his reach. He has but to desire, and he may possess himself of every species of wisdom to judge and power to perform. [ William Godwin ]
Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming.... Every green thing loves to die in bright colours. [ Ward Beecher ]
It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations. [ Sprat ]
If human love hath power to penetrate the veil - and hath it not? - then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them. [ Hawthorne ]
In a tête-à-tête a woman speaks in a loud tone to the man she is indifferent to, in a low tone to the one she begins to love, and keeps silent with the one she loves. [ Rochebrune ]
We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work. [ De Sales ]
The little mind who loves itself will write and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence. [ Goldsmith ]
If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again. [ Thackeray ]
Man loves before he sees; his heart is open before his eyes; love must irradiate his world for him before he well knows he is in it, what it is made of, and what to make of it. [ Ed ]
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure. [ St. Jerome ]
The domestic man who loves no music so well as his own kitchen clock and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of. [ Woodworth ]
Its brightness, mighty divinity! has a fleeting empire over the day, giving gladness to the fields, color to the flowers, the season of the loves, harmonious hour of wakening birds. [ Calderon ]
The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world, - words with little meaning, actions with little worth, - one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence. [ Carlyle ]
Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit. [ Moses Harvey ]
As friendship must be founded on mutual esteem, it cannot long exist among the vicious; for we soon find ill company to be like a dog, which dirts those the most whom he loves the best. [ Chatfield ]
Death alone of the gods loves not gifts, nor do you need to offer incense or libations; he cares not for altar nor hymn; the goddess of Persuasion alone of the gods has no power over him. [ Horace ]
We may deserve grief; but why should women be unhappy? - except that we know heaven chastens those whom it loves best, being pleased by repeated trials to make these pure spirits more pure. [ Thackeray ]
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it: but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. [ Burke ]
When a woman's heart is touched, when it is moved by love, then the electric spark is communicated and the fire of inspiration kindled: but even then she desires no more than to suffer or to die for what she loves. [ Countess Hahn-Hahn ]
In art there is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste. [ Bruyere ]
What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we denied that to be poetry in which the poet celebrates the woman he really loves. Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting. [ Schlegel ]
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble. The proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none. By itself, the voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason. [ Enchiridion ]
Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world, words with little meaning, actions with little worth, one loves to reflect on the great empire of silence. The noble silent men, scattered here and there each in his department, silently thinking, silently working; whom no morning newspaper makes mention of. [ Carlyle ]
Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who are hardest to come at, or that nothing besides chastity, with its collateral attendants, truth, fidelity, and constancy, gives the man a property in the person he loves, and consequently endears her to him above all things. [ Addison ]
Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great many of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color. [ Leigh Hunt ]
The love of a mother is never exhausted; it never changes, it never tires. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands; but a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; she still remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of Iris childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy. [ W. Irving ]