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Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything. - Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence. - Jean de la Fontaine O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu. [Fr., Amour! Amour! quand tu nous tiens On peut bien dire, Adieu, prudence.] - Jean de la Fontaine, Fables (IV, 1) To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. - Alphonse de Lamartine True love is the ripe fruit of a life-time. - Alphonse de Lamartine Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved. - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia) I say to you truly, the heart of him who loves is a paradise on earth; he has God in himself, for God is love. - Abbe Hugo Felicite de Lamennais Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never let him know how dear he is; flit like a bird before him; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness. - Letitia Elizabeth Landon (Mrs. George MacLean) He give her a look that you could of poured on a waffle. - Ring Lardner No disguise can long conceal love where it is, nor feign it where it is not. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld There are few people who are not ashamed of their amours when the fit is over. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld There is only one kind of love, but it has a thousand guises. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld The more we love a mistress, the nearer we are to hating her. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims (114) The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves. [Fr., Ce qui fait que amants et les maitresses ne s'ennuient point d'etre ensemble; c'est qu'ils parlent toujours d'eux memes.] - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims (312) The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in what we excite. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims 78 Love is an egotism of two. [Fr., L'amour est un egoisme a deux.] - Antoine de la Salle (Sale) Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing Ever made by the Hand above-- A woman's heart, and a woman's life, And a woman's wonderful love? - Mary Torrans Lathrap, A Woman's Answer to a Man's Question True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) And in that first flame Is all the nectar of the kiss. [Fr., Et c'est dans la premiere flamme Qu'est tout le nectar du baiser.] - Gilliaume Pigault Lebrun (Gilliaume Pigault-Lebrun ), Mes Souvenirs, ou les Deux Rives de la Seine To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. - Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz Love leads to present rapture,--then to pain; But all through Love in time is healed again. - Charles Godfrey Leland, Sweet Marjoram Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion. - Ninon de L'Enclos (real name Anne L'Enclos) Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. - John Lennon Displaying page 19 of 39 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 [19] 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39
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