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Quotations by Subject: Love (162 quotes)

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The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), "The True Believer", 1951
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Slaughterhouse V
To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!: Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832), Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17.
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