Famous Quotes

"A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all."

Washington Irving on Love

More quotes about Love

• "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

  Lao Tzu on Love

• "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."

  Oscar Wilde on Love

• "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is."

  Jim Morrison on Love

• "Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. on Love

• "Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."

  Bruce Lee on Love

More quotes by Washington Irving

• "Age is a matter of feeling, not of years."

• "A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."

• "Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."

• "After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty."

• "Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business."