Quotes to inspire and reflect

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Love is more afraid of change than destruction.

I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

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.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

The heart was made to be broken.

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

Love is being stupid together.

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

We love the things we love for what they are.

in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

A rose without thorns is like love without heartbreak; it doesn't make sense.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Don't come crawlin' to a man for love--he likes to get a run for his money.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one you’ll become a philosopher .

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies are ended by a marriage.