He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
- William Blake
Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small:
Love so amazing, so divine
Demands my soul, my life, my all.
- Isaac Watts
Lips only sing when they cannot kiss.
- James Thomsom
Love is the life of every man.
- Emanuel Swedenborg
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
And men below, and saints above:
For love is heaven and heaven is love.
- Sir Walter Scott
Love then, and even later, was the whole oncern of everyone's life.
That is always the fate of leisured societies.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Friendship is love without his wings!
- George Gordon, Lord Byron
Many waers cannot quench love neither can the floods drown it.
- Song of Solomon
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
- Catullus
No there's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.
- Thomas Moore
Love's but the frailty of the mind,
- When 'tis not with ambition joined.
- William Congreve
You cannot give a kiss without taking and cannot take without giving.
- Anonymous
Then, must you speak of one that loved not wisely but too well; of one not easily jealous, but being wrong perplex'd in the extreme.
- William Shakespeare
There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.
- William Shakespeare
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, - but not for love.
- William Shakespeare
'Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.
- Tennyson