Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ovid

You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.

Ovid

The burden becomes light that is shared by love.

Ovid

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

Ovid

Love is a kind of warfare.

Ovid

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

Ovid

Love is the force that leaves you colorless

Paul Eluard

The front windows as are the watchmen of grief - I've been looking beyond expectation - Beyond myself - and I do not know as I love you - Which one of us is missing.

Paul Engle

All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.

Matt Groening

Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life be without it?

Matt Groening

I like all of the early relationship strips that were collected in 'Love Is Hell,' where I pretended to be an expert in relationships and did comics like 'The Nine Types of Boyfriends,' 'Sixteen Ways to End a Relationship,' 'Twenty-Four Things Not to Say in Bed,' and other arbitrarily numbered lists.

Matt Groening

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Matt Groening

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

Matt Groening

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Mary Zimmerman

Let me die the moment my love dies. Let me not outlive my own capacity to love. Let me die still loving, and so, never die.

Marya Mannes

In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions.

Mary Wortley Montagu

In short I will part with anything for you but you.

Mary Wortley Montagu

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Mary Wortley Montagu

I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.

Mary Wollstonecraft

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

Mary Wollstonecraft

And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present century are anxious only to inspire love, when they ought to have the nobler aim of getting respect for their abilities and virtues.

Mary Wollstonecraft

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

Mary Harron

It's hard when your first thing is something everyone loves. Actually, that never happened to me. I was lucky that my first film, which is actually the best reviewed of all my films, didn't have that success.

Mary Harron

At any age you can start over. You have to drop the idea of where you should be in your career. And you have to do without a lot of love. Not everyone's going to love you.

Mary J. Blige

Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the compliment and be thankful that people are complimenting you, but don't let it consume you; don't let your circumstances around you and the way people view you make you act a certain way.

Mary J. Blige

Love is wonderful, amazing, and the best thing that can happen to us.

Marsilio Ficino

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Marsilio Ficino

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.

Martha Gellhorn

I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.

Martha Gellhorn

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

Martha Graham

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

Martha Beck

The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.

Martha Beck

If you’re doing something you love with people you love in a place you love, you are going to create something of value to the world.

Martha Beck

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.