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October 24, 2013

Thursday Thirteen

13 Quotes About Love

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Thursday Thirteen

This week I’m talking about love.

Thirteen Quotes About Love

1. Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. ~ James Baldwin.

2. Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. ~ John Barrymore.

3. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. ~ Pearl Bailey.

4. Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole. ~ Samuel Richardson.

5. He gave me a look you could have poured on a waffle. ~ Ring Lardner.

6. Art is love. ~ William Holman Hunt.

7. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. ~ Pearl Bailey.

8. I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world. ~ Muhammad Ali.

9. Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. ~ Matt Groening.

10. Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not. ~ James Joyce.

11. Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ~ Erich Fromm.

12. Love is metaphysical gravity. ~ R. Buckminister Fuller.

13. Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.

Source: Advanced Banter by John Lloyd & John Mitchinson

Which one is your favorite? Or do you have another quotation about love that you’d like to share?

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18 Comments

  1. CountryDew
    CountryDew on October 24, 2013 at 5:02 am

    More love and less paperwork gets my vote, too!

  2. Alice Audrey
    Alice Audrey on October 24, 2013 at 6:48 am

    LOL, I love #5.

    • Shelley Munro
      Shelley Munro on October 25, 2013 at 12:27 am

      That’s a fun one, a writer’s quote for sure!

  3. sandy
    sandy on October 24, 2013 at 6:56 am

    very special

    • Shelley Munro
      Shelley Munro on October 25, 2013 at 12:27 am

      Thanks for stopping by.

  4. Stephanie Sullivan
    Stephanie Sullivan on October 24, 2013 at 10:33 am

    Great quotes, Shelley. I especially love #5. Never thought of it that way. LOL. Happy Thursday!

    • Shelley Munro
      Shelley Munro on October 25, 2013 at 12:28 am

      I like this one too. Very descriptive.

  5. Heather
    Heather on October 24, 2013 at 11:34 am

    Great selection of quotes, Shelley — but did you realize 3 and 7 are the same? :D Thanks for visiting!

    • Shelley Munro
      Shelley Munro on October 25, 2013 at 12:28 am

      I did it on purpose – to see if anyone would notice ;)

    • Shelley Munro
      Shelley Munro on October 25, 2013 at 12:28 am

      Thanks for stopping by, Paige.

  7. Jennifer Leeland
    Jennifer Leeland on October 24, 2013 at 12:06 pm

    I love the one that says that “Love is metaphysical gravity” It’s so true.

    • Shelley Munro
      Shelley Munro on October 25, 2013 at 12:29 am

      There are some clever and witty people around who say these things.

  8. Maria Zannini
    Maria Zannini on October 24, 2013 at 8:22 pm

    Number 3 is so good it had to be listed twice. That one’s my favorite. :)

  9. Hazel
    Hazel on October 24, 2013 at 10:44 pm

    2 is fun, 9 striking and 11 touching, 12 I like. Nice list.