Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
H. L. Mencken

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison

I could never love where I could not respect.
Charlotte Elizabeth Aissé

It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
Fred Allen

I was nauseous and tingly all over. . . . I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Woody Allen

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Henri Frédéric Amiel

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
Greg Anderson

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
W. H. Auden

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
St. Augustine 354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian

Love, and do what you like.
St. Augustine

Love is the beauty of the soul.
St. Augustine

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
St. Augustine

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
St. Augustine

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Marcus Aurelius 121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.
Myrtle Auvil

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment.
Philippians 1:9

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear.
Bible

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings.
Bible

A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Louis Aragon 1897-1982, French Poet

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh Ardele

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.
Jean Anouilh Ardele

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
Hannah Arendt 1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
Aristotle

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
Elizabeth Ashley American Actress

We must love one another or die.
W. H. Auden 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our ''natural'' attitude toward the ''other'' is one of either indifference or hostility.
W. H. Auden 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888, American Author

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.
Nelson Algren 1909-1981, American Author

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Woody Allen

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Woody Allen

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel 1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.
Margaret Anderson

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
Barbara De Angelis

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Barbara De Angelis

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara De Angelis

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Jean Anouilh 1910-1987, French Playwright

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
St. Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

Teach only love for that is what you are.
A Course In Miracles

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
Diane Ackerman

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
Alfred Adler

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Stephen R. Covey American Speaker, Trainer, Author

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joan Crawford 1904-1977, American Actress

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.
Richard Crawshaw

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
Quentin Crisp 1908-, British Author

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Roy Croft

Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.
Aleister Crowley 1875-1947, British Occultist