A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
~English Proverb

I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
~Song of Solomon 7:10

Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.
~William Shakespeare

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you,
I could walk in my garden forever.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Love is a butterfly,
which when pursued is just beyond your grasp,
but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

You can have too much of a good thing.
~English Proverb

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons,
longing, as all individuals do,
to overcome the separateness and isolation
to which we are all heir because we are individuals,
can participate in a relationship that, for the moment,
is not of two isolated selves but a union.
~Rollo May

It is best to love wisely, no doubt;
but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
~William Thackeray

A faint heart never won a fair lady.
~English Proverb

Nothing awakens a reminiscence like a scent.
~Victor Hugo

The heart of a fool is in his mouth,
but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
~Benjamin Franklin

Alas! the love of women! it is known
To be a lovely and fearful thing!
~Lord Byron

To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
~Unknown

The course of true love never did run smooth.
~William Shakespeare

All of the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
~James Russell Lowell

Once you have learned to love,
You will have learned to live.
~Unknown

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
~Latin Proverb

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved.
~George Elliot

Two heads are better than one.
~English Proverb

Govern a lover as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.
~Chinese Proverb

Love, I find, is like singing.
Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves,
though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
~Zora Neale Hurston

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
~Latin Proverb

True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart,
for eyes may be deceived.
~Antoine de Saint-Exepury

Love seeketh not Itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives it ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
~William Blake

What I do and what I dream include thee,
as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A life without love is like a year without summer.
~Swedish Proverb

All things come round to him who will but wait.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.
~St. Augustine

The hours I spend with you I look upon
as sort of a perfumed garden,
a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it�
you and you alone make me feel that I am alive�.
Other men it is said have seen angels,
but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
~George Moore