Love Quotes

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I've always wanted to be a mom because I want to give a kid all of the magical gifts my mom gave to me, such as love and friendship. She and I had this incredible connection that was so unbelievable.

~ Jennifer Love Hewitt

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

~ Anaïs Nin

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

~ Mortimer Adler

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

~ Jean De La Bruyère

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

~ William Hazlitt

The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff.

~ Jared Kushner

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

~ George Herbert

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.

~ Carine Roitfeld

I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world. The companies that will ultimately do well are the companies that chase happiness. If you find a way to help people find love, or health or friendship, the dollar will chase that.

~ Ashton Kutcher

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

I love all girl squads. I'm all for, like, girl power and friendship, and I'm all about that.

~ Poppy Delevingne

Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.

~ Mother Angelica

Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.

~ Fiona Apple

I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.

~ Jane Green

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

~ Stendhal

A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.

~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

~ Oliver Goldsmith

For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.

~ Christopher Moore

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

~ Anita Brookner

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

~ Johann Kaspar Lavater

It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.

~ Jennifer Beals

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

~ Robin Morgan

I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.

~ Irvin D. Yalom

I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is the love, friendship, and presence of my mother.' And God gave it to me.

~ La India

I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity. But even more than that, I love it when my readers find lasting friendship with others of my readers - knowing that they met through their mutual affection for my books and characters makes me happy!

~ Suzanne Brockmann

I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.

~ Tim Finn

We want 'Doll & Em' to be something we're proud of. We'd love to do another series, but it's not the be-all and end-all. Our friendship is the be-all and end-all.

~ Dolly Wells

I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and 'Extras' and also 'The Trip.' That had all the nuances of friendship and finding things out about their lives without it being too much plot-driven.

~ Dolly Wells

We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.

~ Joshua Prager

Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share.

~ François Lelord

If you have a friend or family member with breast cancer, try not to look at her with 'sad eyes.' Treat her like you always did; just show a little extra love.

~ Hoda Kotb

Everybody has their favorite sad songs. That's part of what I love so much about country music. Country music is never afraid to go with a sad song.

~ Chris Young

That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic group of songs. You do have some almost pop songs in there, but you do have your traditional country, story songs. You have your ballads, your happy songs, your sad songs, your love songs, and your feisty songs.

~ Reba Mcentire

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

~ Miranda Lambert

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

~ Adam Levine

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

~ Lord Byron

I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

~ Dianne Wiest