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Come live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dale and field,
And all the craggy mountains yield.
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (1599)In context
Mankind is composed of two sorts of men — those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy.
José Martí1853–1895“Letter to a Cuban Farmer” (1893)
Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love. But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything.
José Martí1853–1895Martí: Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
Love is… born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation!
José Martí1853–1895Amor (1887)
Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
George R. R. Martinborn 1948“Meathouse Man” (1976)
A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.
Steve Martinborn 1945As Harris K. Telemacher in L.A. Story (1991)
- Truth & Lies
Had we but World enough, and Time,
This coyness Lady were no crime.
Andrew Marvell1621–1678To His Coy Mistress (1681)In context
- Time
Let us roll all our Strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one Ball:
And tear our Pleasures with rough strife,
Thorough the Iron gates of Life.
Thus, though we cannot make our Sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
Andrew Marvell1621–1678To His Coy Mistress (1681)In context
- Time
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
Groucho Marx1890–1977
- Marriage
- Men
Degenerate sons and daughters,
Life is too strong for you⁠—
It takes life to love Life.
Edgar Lee Masters1868–1950Lucinda Matlock (1915)In context
- Life & Death
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965The Summing Up (1938), p. 306
- Change
The tragedy of love is indifference.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965The Trembling of a Leaf, ch. 4
Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 21, p. 80
- Art
There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 71In context
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965A Writer’s Notebook (1946), p. 13