Thursday Thirteen – Random Love Quotes

I tried to find some less familiar love quotes for today’s Thirteen:

1. I found my lover on his bed, and my heart was sweet to excess. ~ Love Songs of the New Kingdom (c. 1550-1080 B.C.)
2. Love, who is the most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men. ~ Hesiod
3. Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things. ~ Heraclitus
4. So I can’t live either without you or with you. ~ Ovid
5. Love knows nothing of order. ~ Saint Jerome
6. This night of no moon
   There is no way to meet him.
   I rise in longing–
   My breast pounds, a leaping flame,
   My heart is consumed in fire. ~ Ono no Komachi
7. The eyes those silent tongues of love. ~ Miguel de Cervantes
8. Love is a spirit all compact of fire, Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire. ~ Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, l. 149
9. I am two fools, I know,
   For loving , and for saying so
   In whining poetry. ~ John Donne
10. Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest. ~ John Webster
11. There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not. ~ François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
12. Yes, I’m in love, I feel it now
    And Caelia has undone me;
    And yet I swear I can’t tell how
    The pleasing plague stole on me. ~ William Whitehead
13. The light that lies
    In woman’s eyes,
    Has been my heart’s undoing. ~ Thomas Moore

Photo: Pam Roth