nchanted Love Quotes

Marriage...
Romantic Love...
Sex and Love...
Universal Love...
Unrequited Love...
Wooing...

Marriage...

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal. --Ovid

Let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your soul.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. --Kahlil Gibran

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.

Never Marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely. --William Penn

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together. --Hemant Joshi

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man. --Joseph Joubert

Let husband and wife infinitely avoid a curious distinction of mine and thine, for this hath caused all the laws, and all the suits, and all the wars in the world. --Jeremy Taylor

Never to to bed mad. Stay up and fight. --Phyllis Diller

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest--never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

If your wife is small, stoop down and whisper in her ear. --Jewish proverb

If you marry, you will regret it. If you do not marry, you will also regret it. --Soren Kierkegaard

Remember, that if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all they life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee on year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when is is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied. --Sir Walter Raleigh

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe --Jackie Mason

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. --Montaigne

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the marriage state....Marriage is not like the hill of Olympus, wholly clear, without clouds. --Thomas Fuller

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone--but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. --Bette Davis

There is nothing worse than solitude, growing old without a shoulder to lean on. Marry, marry--even if he's fat and boring! --Coco Chanel

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. --David Bissonette

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. --Noel Coward, 1956

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. --Sacha Guitry

Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.

Before marriage, a man yearns for the woman he loves. After marriage, the 'Y' becomes silent.

If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say, talk in your sleep.

Romantic Love...

Let your mistress become accustomed to you and your curious ways, for the most potent thing in life is habit. Be with her on all occasions until you notice that she is used to you and needs your presence. --Ovid

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. --George Sand

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, like any knight of the grail, and the journey is always towards the other soul, not away from it....To love you have to learn to understand the other, more than she understands herself, and to submit to her understanding of you. It is damnably difficult and painful, but it is the only thing which endures. --D.H. Lawrence

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. --G.K. Chesterton

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. --Jean Jacques Rousseau

Love moderately; long love doth so:
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. --Friar Laurence, in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Let thy love be younger than thyself
Or thy affection cannot hold the bent:
For women are as roses; whose fair flower,
Being once displayed, doth fall that every hour. --Orsino, the Duke, in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship. --La Rochefoucauld

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. --La Rochefoucauld

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love. --Spanish proverb

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. --Alan Watts

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue. --John Dryden

Be good sweet maid,
And let who will be naughty.
If you grow better every day,
How good you'll be at forty. --William Hazlitt

Love sees with the heart and not the mind; therefore, winged cupid is painted blind. --William Shakespeare

It is impossible to love and to be wise. --Francis Bacon

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love. --Sophocles

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. --Miguel de Unamuno

One hour of right-down love
Is worth an age of dully living on.
--Aphra Behn

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret. --Aphra Behn

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. --The Bible

Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death. --The Bible

Love seeketh not Itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives it ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
--William Blake

O what a heaven is love! O what a hell! --Thomas Dekker

For you see, each day I love you more, Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. --Rosemonde Gerard

A lover without indescretion is no lover at all. --Thomas Hardy

Love and a cough cannot be hid. --George Herbert

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. --La Bruyere

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. --Thomas Mann

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? --Christopher Marlowe

Love is a kind of warfare. --OVID

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. --Plato

The course of true love never did run smooth. --Shakespeare

All's fair in love and war. --Francis Edward Smedley

Sex and Love...

Take off your shell along with your clothes. --Alex Comfort

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that. --Norman Mailer

It is better to be silent than to say things at the wrong time that are too tender; what was appropriate ten seconds ago is no longer, and hurts one's cause, rather than helps it. --Stendhal

Do not rush into your own bed after it. Talk a little bit, hang around. --Mel Brooks

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition. --David Herbert Lawrence

The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life. --Havelock Ellis

Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right. --Woody Allen

Give me chastity and continence -- but not yet. --Saint Augustine

Is is not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? --Shakespeare

Universal Love...

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night. --Matthew Arnold

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love. --Bertrand Russell

He that shuts love out, in turn shall be
Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie,
Howling in outer darkness. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Make your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is. -- Hadewijch of Antwerp

Unrequited Love...

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to. --Moliere

When we can't have what we love we must love what we have. --Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

Wooing

To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside;
Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny'd. --Thomas Herrick

Remember the old saying: "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady." --Miguel de Cervantes

If you want to win her hand
Let the maiden understand
That's she's not the only pebble on the beach. --Harry Braisted

If you wish women to love you, be original. I know a man who used to wear fur hats summer and winter and women fell in love with him. --Anton Chekhov

Speak low if you speak love. --Don Pedro, in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

Friendship is constant in all other things,
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself,
And trust no agent. --Claudio, in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

If thou must love me, let it be for naught
Except for love's sake only. Do not say,
'I love her for her smile--her look--her way
Of speaking gently--for trick of thought
That falls in well with mine...'
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou mayest love on, through love's eternity. --Elizabeth Barrett Browning


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