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 waits for love, though the sun be set, / And the stars come out, the dews are wet, / And the night-winds moan. Dr. Walter Smith.

Love—what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear! Tupper.

Love, when founded in the heart, will show itself in a thousand unpremeditated sallies of fondness; but every cool deliberate exhibition of the passion only argues little understanding or great insincerity. Goldsmith.

Love which hath ends will have an end. 45 Dryden.

Love, which is only an episode in the life of a man, is the entire history of a woman's life. Mme. de Staël.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man. Emerson.

Love will creep where it cannot go. Pr.

Love will find its way / Through paths where wolves would fear to prey. Byron.

Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope, 50 but not altogether without it. Scott.

Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea. Mme. de Girardin.