Quotes About Affection

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.

Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.

The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.

Don't you remember sweet Alice Ben Bolt? Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown; Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, And trembl'd with fear at your frown!

There is none, In all this cold and hollow world, no fount Of deep strong, deathless love, save that within A mother's heart.

Sure I love the dear silver that shines in your hair, And the brow that's all furrowed, and wrinkled with care. I kiss the dear fingers, so toil-worn for me, Oh, God bless you and keep you, Mother Machree.

The heart is never neutral.

Some people might say that I think too highly of you just because I worship the water you walk on.

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.

The sweetest flower that blows, I give you as we part. For you it is a rose For me it is my heart.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Love teaches even asses to dance.

I prefer love over sex.

Every man is a poet when he is in love.

It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.

I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.

Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.

A man can hide all things, excepting twain - That he is drunk, and that he is in love.

Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk, and that he is in love.