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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894A Mortal Antipathy (1885)
- Happiness
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. 11
There is the heat of Love,
the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper,
irresistible⁠—magic to make the sanest man go mad.
Homer900–800 BCIliad, XIV. 216–217 (tr. Robert Fagles); Aphrodite’s embroidered band
There is nothing better in this world than that man and wife should be of one mind in a house.
Homer900–800 BCThe Odyssey (8th century BC), Book VIIn context
- Marriage
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
‘The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
‘T is paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.’
And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, ‘t is true, ‘t is true.
A. E. Housman1859–1936When I Was One-and-Twenty (1896)In context
- Experience
Were I still in death and you fighting for life, I would come back to the abyss to aid you⁠—aye, whether my spirit floated with the purple sails on the crystal sea of paradise, or writhed in the molten flames of hell!
Robert E. Howard1906–1936“Queen of the Black Coast” (1934)
- Life & Death
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915
It is only life and love that give love and life.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 40
- Life & Death
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes⁠—and the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
The best way to worship God is to love your wife.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Les Misérables (1862), page 1190, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers
- God
- Marriage
One can no more pray too much than love too much.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Les Misérables (1862), page 55, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers
- Prayer