Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Quote by Thomas More

Topics: Love Quotes, Romantic Love Quotes

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter...

The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter...

Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates...

Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates...

A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.

A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.

The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the...

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the...

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the...

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the...

If I speak to thee in friendship's name, thou think'st I speak too coldly, if...

If I speak to thee in friendship's name, thou think'st I speak too coldly, if...

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing,...

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing,...

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities -...

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities -...

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one...

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one...

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few...

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few...