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

Loveliness / Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, / But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most. Thomson.

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, / Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend / More than cool reason ever comprehends. Mid. Night's Dream, v. 1.

Lovers are as punctual as the sun. Goethe. 20

Lovers are never tired of each other; they always speak of themselves. La Roche.

Lovers break not hours, / Unless it be to come before their time; / So much they spur their expedition. Two Gent. of Ver., v. 1.

Lovers' purses are tied with cobwebs. Pr.

Lovers (Verliebte) see only each other in the world, but they forget that the world sees them. Platen.

Lovers' time runs faster than the clock. 25 Pr.

Loving goes by haps; some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. Much Ado, iii. 1.

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, and he who goes the lowest builds the safest. Bailey.