Famously Said Random quote

Quotes about love

803 quotes from 330 people

Most readBy personPage 6 of 54

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.
Henry Ward Beecher1813–1887
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Henry Ward Beecher1813–1887
- Religion
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Saul Bellow1915–2005Dangling Man (1944) [Penguin Classics, 1996, ], p. 84
- Virtue
To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.
Wendell Berry1934–2026Life Is A Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition (2000)
It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
The Bible (King James Version)Genesis 2:18 (KJV)In context
- Marriage
- Men
There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
The Bible (King James Version)Proverbs 30:18–19 (KJV)In context
- Nature
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
The Bible (King James Version)1 Corinthians 13:1 (KJV)In context
- Christianity
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
The Bible (King James Version)1 Corinthians 13:4–7 (KJV)In context
- Christianity
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
The Bible (King James Version)Genesis 2:24 (KJV)In context
- Family
- Marriage
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
The Bible (King James Version)1 Corinthians 13:13 (KJV)In context
- Faith
- Hope
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914
- Marriage
- Sex
Wedding: a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911).
- Marriage
Helpmate, n. A wife, or bitter half.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Comedy
- Marriage
Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Comedy
- Marriage
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings1818–1885
- Envy