Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Love knows nothing of labour. It. Pr.

Love labour; for if thou dost not want it for food, thou may'st for physic. Wm. Penn.

Love laughs at locksmiths. Pr.

Love lessens the woman's refinement and strengthens the man's. Jean Paul.

Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; 40 / Love laps his wings on either side the heart / ... Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, / So that they pass not to the shrine of sound. Tennyson.

Love lightens labour and sweetens sorrow. Pr.

Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues; / Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. Merry Wives, ii. 2.

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without continual motion, and ceases to exist as soon as it ceases to hope or fear. La Roche.

Love, like men, dies oftener of excess than hunger. Jean Paul.

Love likes not shallow mirth. Dr. Walter 45 Smith.