Love Proverbs
We have collected and put the best proverbs about LOVE from around the world. Enjoy reading these insights and feel free to share this page on your social media to inspire others.
May these Love Proverbs inspire you to never give up and keep working towards your goals. Who knows—success could be just around the corner.
Love is considered to be a positive and negative: with its virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection, as “the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another”; and its vice representing human moral flaw, akin to vanity, selfishness, amour-propre, and egotism, as it potentially leads people into a type of mania, obsessiveness or codependency.
See also: Love Quotes, Love, What Is Love?, Romance (love), Agape “Divine Love”, Mahabba (Love), (Passion or Intense, Ecstatic Love), Love of God, Love For Humankind, Philosophy of Love, Free Love, Platonic Love,
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Love and a cough cannot be hid. – Latin Proverb
Love and a cough cannot be hidden. – Japanese Proverb
Love and arrogance don’t go together. – Sicilian Proverb
Love and attention make all things grow. – Chinese Proverb
Love and dignity do not dwell together. – Latin Proverb
Love and eggs are best when they are fresh. – Russian Proverb
love and faith are seen in their works. – Portuguese Proverb
Love and hate always exaggerate. – Jewish Proverb
Love and jealousy always keep company. – Sicilian Proverb
Love and let the world know, hate in silence. – Egyptian Proverb
Love and lordship like no fellowship. – French Proverb
Love and poverty are hard to conceal. – Danish Proverb
Love and prudence are absolutely incompatible. – Bolivian Proverb
Love begets love. – Danish Proverb
Love begins at home. – German Proverb
Love begins with song and music and ends in a sea of tears. – Italian Proverb
Love Bertrand love his dog. – French Proverb
Love blinds the eyes to faults, and hatred blinds the eyes to virtues. – Hebrew Proverb
Love blinds your eyes, marriage opens them wide. – Finnish Proverb
Love brooks no delay. – Latin Proverb
Love came in a paper bag, said the maiden when she got a letter from her sweetheart. – Finnish Proverb
Love can do much, money can do all. – German Proverb
Love can do much, money can do everything. – Spanish Proverb
Love can do much, money can do more. – Spanish Proverb
Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. – Traditional Proverb
Love can turn a cottage into a golden palace. – German Proverb
Love cannot be commanded. – Traditional Proverb
Love cannot be compelled. – Romanian Proverb
Love comes after marriage. – Eskimo Proverb
Love conceals ugliness, and hate sees many faults. – Irish Proverb
Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion. – Latin Proverb
Love conquers all. – Latin Proverb
Love covers many faults. – Romanian Proverb
Love covers many infirmities. – English Proverb
Love demands faith, and faith firmness. – Italian Proverb
Love did not grow any garlic. – Armenian Proverb
Love does much, money does all. – Catalonian Proverb
Love does much, money does everything. – Romanian Proverb
Love does not pay attention to dignity. – Jewish Proverb
Love does wonders, but money makes marriages. – French Proverb
Love doesn’t listen to advice. – Sicilian Proverb
Love don’t love nobody. – Traditional Proverb
Love entered and you didn’t realize it: you wanted to drive it out but you couldn’t. – Sicilian Proverb
Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. – Polish Proverb
Love expels jealousy. – French Proverb
Love flies away and the pain remains. – Bolivian Proverb
Love for a person must extend to the crows on his roof. – Chinese Proverb
Love for something makes a man blind and deaf. – Sudanese Proverb
Love for those too easily won does not last long. – Latin Proverb
Love forgets dignity. – Hebrew Proverb
Love from someone who is bad is worse than his hatred. – Indian Proverb
Love God with all your heart and ignore the gossip-mongers. – Sicilian Proverb
Love grows with obstacles. – German Proverb
Love has its own language, but marriage falls back on the local dialect. – Russian Proverb
Love has its tides; before ebb tide you must take advantage of the flood. – Chinese Proverb
Love has no law. – Portuguese Proverb
Love has produced some heroes but even more idiots. – Swedish Proverb
Love has produced some heroes but many idiots too. – Danish Proverb
Love hes no lack. – Scottish Proverb
Love him who tells you your faults in private. – Jewish Proverb
Love is a crocodile in the river of desire. – Indian Proverb
Love is a despot who spares no one. – Namibian Proverb
Love is a garden full of flowers and marriage is a field of stinging nettles. – Finnish Proverb
Love is a kind of military service. – Latin Proverb
Love is a many splintered thing. – Traditional Proverb
Love is a painkiller. – African Proverb
Love is a sweet torment. – Romanian Proverb
Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly – Traditional Proverb
Love is always smelled. – Klingon Proverb
Love is an excuse for its own faults. – Italian Proverb
Love is an eye that doesn’t see anything. – Chinese Proverb
Love is apportioned, who brings it will have it brought. – Sicilian Proverb
Love is as strong as death. – English Proverb
Love is better than a whip. – Nigerian Proverb
Love is bitter, but it comforts the heart. – Sicilian Proverb
Love is blind — but not the neighbors. – Mexican Proverb
Love is blind and thinks that others don’t see either. – Danish Proverb
Love is blind but sees afar. – Italian Proverb
Love is blind to blemishes and faults. – Irish Proverb
Love is blind, and greed insatiable. – Chinese Proverb
Love is blind, but marriage finds a cure. – Romanian Proverb
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes. – Chinese Proverb
Love is blind, so you have to feel your way. – Brazilian Proverb
Love is blind. – Chinese Proverb
Love is blind; jealousy sees too much. – Yiddish Proverb
Love is deed and not fine phrases. – Puerto Rican Proverb
Love is full of busy fear. – English Proverb
Love is full of fear. – English Proverb
Love is full of trouble. – Romanian Proverb
Love is in blood not in talking. – African Proverb
Love is incompatible with fear. – Chinese Proverb
Love is just like rice — plant it elsewhere and it grows. – Malagasy Proverb
Love is like a baby: it needs to be treated tenderly. – Congolese Proverb
Love is like a cucumber, it starts off sweet and ends up bitter. – Sicilian Proverb
Love is like a glass that breaks if handled clumsily. – Russian Proverb
Love is like a mousetrap: you go in when you want, but you don’t get out when you like. – Spanish Proverb
Love is like a rice plant; transplanted, it can grow elsewhere. – Malagasy Proverb
Love is like a shuttlecock. – Latin Proverb
Love is like butter — it’s good with bread. – Jewish Proverb
Love is like cough you can’t hold it back. – African Proverb
Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. – Swedish Proverb
Love is like fog — there is no mountain on which it does not rest. – Hawaiian Proverb
Love is like seaweed even if you have pushed it away, you will not prevent it from coming back. – Traditional Proverb
Love is like the moon: now full, now dark. – Polish Proverb
Love is like war, begin when you like and leave off when you can. – Spanish Proverb
Love is like war: you begin when you like and leave off when you can. – Spanish Proverb
Love is like young rice: transplanted, still it grows. – Malagasy Proverb
Love is love no matter whence it comes or in what form. – Darkovan Proverb
Love is master of all arts. – Italian Proverb
Love is never without jealousy. – Romanian Proverb
Love is not found in the market. – Romanian Proverb
Love is often the fruit of marriage. – French Proverb
Love is one thing, knowledge is another. – Traditional Proverb
Love is one-eyed, hate is blind. – Danish Proverb
Love is paid with love. – Portuguese Proverb
Love is partner of blindness. – Czech Proverb
Love is sometimes difficult but death even more so. – Albanian Proverb
Love is sweet captivity. – Czech Proverb
Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending. – Romanian Proverb
Love is the art of making exceptions. – Darkovan Proverb
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. – French Proverb
Love is the fruit of idleness. – Romanian Proverb
Love is the fruit of love. – Latin Proverb
Love is the more beautiful when it is a little irritated. – Sicilian Proverb
Love is the rock of youth and the shoal of old age. – Sicilian Proverb
Love is the true price at which love is bought. – Italian Proverb
Love is the true reward of love. – English Proverb
Love is too rare to be lost on jealousy. – Mexican Proverb
Love is without reason. – Romanian Proverb
Love is worn like a wreath through the summers and the winters. – Hawaiian Proverb
Love itself is calm; turbulence arrives from individuals. – Chinese Proverb
Love kills time and time kills love. – Italian Proverb
Love kills with golden arrows. – Spanish Proverb
Love knows hidden paths. – German Proverb
Love knows no law. – Portuguese Proverb
Love knows not labour. – Italian Proverb
Love lasts as long as does the reproach. – Arab Proverb
Love lasts as long as money endures. – English Proverb
Love laughs at locksmiths. – English Proverb
Love levels all inequalities. – Italian Proverb
Love lives in cottages as well as in court. – English Proverb
Love lives in palaces as well as in thatched cottages. – Japanese Proverb
Love looks through spectacles that make copper look like gold, poverty like riches, and tears like pearls. – Peruvian Proverb
Love makes a good eye squint. – English Proverb
Love makes a man both blind and deaf. – Arab Proverb
Love makes all hearts gentle. – Romanian Proverb
Love makes labor light. – Dutch Proverb
Love makes the owl seem prettier than a white falcon. – Russian Proverb
Love makes the time pass. – French Proverb
Love makes the world go round. – Dutch Proverb
Love makes time pass away, and time makes love pass away. – French Proverb
Love makes time pass; time makes love pass. – French Proverb
Love many, trust few and always paddle your own canoe. – American Proverb
Love me a little but long. – Jewish Proverb
Love me little and love me long. – French Proverb
Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it. – Traditional Proverb
Love me, love my dog. – Italian Proverb
Love my house, love the crow on it. – Chinese Proverb
Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion. – French Proverb
Love never gets lost it’s only kept. – African Proverb
Love of dress is sure the very curse. – Albanian Proverb
Love one another and do not strive for another’s undoing. – Native American Seneca Proverb
Love one another said Christ, but he didn’t mention anything about preferences. – Polish Proverb
Love one that does not love you, answer one that does not call you, and you will run a fruitless race. – Spanish Proverb
Love or hate there is no third course. – Latin Proverb
Love others well, but love thyself the most; give good for good, but not to thine own cost. – Dutch Proverb
Love overlooks defects; hatred magnifies them. – Lebanese Proverb
Love rules his kingdom without a sword. – Italian Proverb
Love rules without a sword and binds without a cord. – Puritan Proverb
Love rules without law. – Italian Proverb
Love rules without rules. [Amore regge senza legge.] – Italian Proverb
Love sees clearly, hate even more so, but jealousy sees the most clear, because it is equal to love plus hate. – Arab Proverb
Love sees no faults. – Traditional Proverb
Love sees roses without thorns. – German Proverb
Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time. – Traditional Proverb
Love should be paid with love. – Portuguese Proverb
Love steals on us imperceptibly. – Latin Proverb
Love subdues everything except the recreant’s heart. – French Proverb
Love talks, even with closed lips. – German Proverb
Love tastes sweet, but only with bread. – Jewish Proverb
Love teaches asses to dance. – French Proverb
Love teaches even asses to dance. – French Proverb
Love tells us many things that are not so. – Ukranian Proverb
Love the one who loves you, answer the one who calls you. – Sicilian Proverb
Love this Earth as if you won’t be here tomorrow show reverence for your Garden as if you will be here forever. – Traditional Proverb
Love thy neighbour as thyself. – Romanian Proverb
Love thy neighbour, but pull not down thy hedge. – Ukranian Proverb
Love truth even if it harms you, and hate lies even if they serve you. – Moroccan Proverb
Love understands all languages. – Romanian Proverb
Love well whip well. – Ukranian Proverb
Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse. – Ukranian Proverb
Love will find a way. – Ukranian Proverb
Love will go through stone walls. – Romanian Proverb
Love without friendship is like a shadow without the sun. – Japanese Proverb
Love without jealousy is like a Pole with no moustache. – Polish Proverb
Love without pain is not to be found anywhere. – Sicilian Proverb
Love without return is like a question without an answer. – German Proverb
Love would soon perish, unless nourished by Ceres and Bacchus. – Latin Proverb
Love your friend with his faults. – Italian Proverb
Love your neighbor, but don’t tear down your fence. – German Proverb
Love your neighbor, but keep your fence. – German Proverb
Love your neighbor, even if he plays the trombone. – Yiddish Proverb
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge. – English Proverb
Love your neighbour, but do not pull down the fence. – Albanian Proverb
Love your neighbour, but don’t pull down the fence. – German Proverb
Love yourself; get outside yourself and take action. focus on the solution; be at peace. – Native American Sioux Proverb
Love, a cough, and smoke will not remain secret. – French Proverb
Love, a cough, and smoke, are hard to hide. – Italian Proverb
Love, a cough, smoke, and money, cannot long be hid. – French Proverb
Love, beauty and money are three things that can’t be hidden. – Sicilian Proverb
Love, coughing, and smoke can’t be kept concealed. – Sicilian Proverb
Love, everyone says it’s bitter, but everyone wants to see for themselves if it’s true. – Sicilian Proverb
Love, fire, a cough, the itch, and gout are not to be concealed. – German Proverb
Love, grief, and money cannot be kept secret. – Spanish Proverb
Love, pain, and money cannot be kept secret; they soon betray themselves. – Spanish Proverb
Love, should i escape your snares, i doubt that i can be trapped by any other means. – Italian Proverb
Love, thieves, and fear, make ghosts. – German Proverb
Lovers’ quarrels are love redoubled. – Portuguese Proverb
Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love. – Latin Proverb
Lovers’ quarrels increase love. – Sicilian Proverb
Love’s anger is fuel to love. – German Proverb
Love’s merchandise is jealousy and broken faith. – Italian Proverb
Love’s plant must be watered with tears, and tended with care. – Danish Proverb
Love’s quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. – Danish Proverb
Love Proverbs
A boy’s love is water in a sieve. – Spanish Proverb
A father’s love, for all other is air. – Spanish Proverb
A fish and bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. – African Proverb
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine nor a garden without love. – Chinese Proverb
A good hater,a good lover. – French Proverb
A handful of love is better than an oven full of bread. – Bengali Proverb
A heart in love with beauty never grows old. – Turkish Proverb
A life with love is happy; a life for love is foolish. – Chinese Proverb
A life without love is like a year without summer. – Swedish Proverb
A long dispute has been forgoten by love, or sometimes a long time of goodness has been forgotten by one badness. – Indonesian Proverb
A lover should be regarded as a person demented. – Latin Proverb
A man has a choice to begin love, but not to end it. – English Proverb
A man in love mistakes a harelip for a dimple. – Japanese Proverb
A man in love schemes more than a hundred lawyers. – Spanish Proverb
A mother’s love is neverending. – Indonesian Proverb
A penny-weight of love is worth a pound of law. – English Proverb
A righteous man by praise will render thee firm in favor and love. – Norse Proverb
A small indignity can destroy a great love. – Sicilian Proverb
A wall between increases love. – German Proverb
A woman prefers poverty with love to wealth without love. – Jewish Proverb
A woman who dresses up and puts on makeup is either in love or a clean whore. – Sicilian Proverb
A woman without love is like a rose without a scent. – Sicilian Proverb
Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love. – Traditional Proverb
Absence is a foe to love; away from the eyes, away from the heart. – Italian Proverb
Absence is a foe to love; out of sight out of mind. – Italian Proverb
Absence is the enemy of love. – Italian Proverb
Absence is the enemy of love; as the distance is from the eyes, so it is from the heart. – Dominican Proverb
Absence sharpens love; presence strengthens it. – English Proverb
Absence, and a friendly neighbor, washeth away love. – English Proverb
All ages are submissive to love. – Russian Proverb
All is fair in love and golf. – American Proverb
All is fair in love and war. – Spanish Proverb
All the world loves a lover. – Portuguese Proverb
Although there’s a new love, the old love can’t be forgotten. – Sicilian Proverb
Always in love, never married. – French Proverb
An old man in love is like a flower in winter. – Portuguese Proverb
Anger increases love. – Italian Proverb
April weather, woman’s love, rose-leaves, dice, and card-luck, change every moment. – German Proverb
As is the lover so is the beloved. – Italian Proverb
As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, the truest lover may turn into the worst enemy. – Iranian Proverb
Avoid the bad, love the good, because things change in a moment. – Sicilian Proverb
Be one in love. – Hawaiian Proverb
Before you love, learn to run through snow without leaving footprints. – Turkish Proverb
Being in love is like feeling the sun from both sides. – Finnish Proverb
Being in love with a married woman is living on borrowed time. – Sicilian Proverb
Better a poor husband than a lover who’s a baron. – Sicilian Proverb
Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee. – Spanish Proverb
Bright but hidden, the Self dwells in the heart. Everything that moves, breathes, opens, and closes Lives in the Self. He is the source of love And may be known through love but not through thought. He is the goal of life. Attain this goal. – Traditional Proverb
Brotherly love for brotherly love, but cheese for money. – Albanian Proverb
Business is business, and love is love. – Albanian Proverb
By beating love decays. – French Proverb
Can a mouse fall in love with a cat? – Darkovan Proverb
Children’s love is like water in a basket. – Argentine Proverb
Choose neither a lover nor linen by candlelight. – Italian Proverb
Choose thy love. Love thy choice. – German Proverb
Choose your love, then love your choice. – Albanian Proverb
Coffee and love are best when they are hot. – German Proverb
Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. – Turkish Proverb
Coffee should be black as night, hot as hell, and strong as love. – Traditional Proverb
Cold cools the love that kindles over hot. – Scottish Proverb
Cold pudding settles love. – English Proverb
Congeniality makes beauty and not beauty love. – Sicilian Proverb
Conversation is like making love; the man is the question, the woman the answer, and the union of both will bear fruit. – Arab Proverb
Counsel is nothing against love. – Italian Proverb
Cultivate a heart of love that knows no anger. – Cambodian Proverb
Dead news, like dead love, has no phoenix in its ashes. – English Proverb
Debt severs love. – Afghan Proverb
Deeds are love, and not fine phrases. – Spanish Proverb
Deeds are love, and not sweet words. – Portuguese Proverb
Do not cease to drink beer, to eat, to intoxicate thyself, to make love, and to celebrate the good days. – Traditional Proverb
Do when ye may, or suffer ye the nay, in love ’tis the way. – English Proverb
Dogs wag their tails, not so much in love to you as to your bread. – Romanian Proverb
Don’t be so much in love that you can’t tell when it’s raining. – Malagasy Proverb
Don’t just take love, experience it. – Persian Proverb
Don’t look into the eyes of your lover, or you will see what he has told many women before. – African Proverb
Don’t marry without love, but don’t love without reason. – American Proverb
Don’t shoot people you hate; don’t lend to those you love. – Cambodian Proverb
Don’t trudge mud into the house of love. – English Proverb
Early marriage, long love. – German Proverb
Eat before falling in love. – Japanese Proverb
Eat the bread of the man you hate and also of him you love. – Puerto Rican Proverb
Even Jupiter himself cannot be in love and wise at the same time. – Latin Proverb
Every kind of love is love, but self-love is supreme among them. – Nigerian Proverb
Every lover is a slave: he follows captive at his mistress’s heels. – Latin Proverb
Faults are thick where love is thin. – Danish Proverb
Fear and love do not go together. – Lithuanian Proverb
Fear is stronger than love. – Romanian Proverb
Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and all good things will be yours. – Swedish Proverb
Feigned love is worse than hatred. – Latin Proverb
Fire and love do not say “Go to your work.” – Spanish Proverb
Follow love, and it will flee from thee; leave it, and it will follow thee. – Scottish Proverb
For stern as death is love, relentless as the nether world is devotion its flames are a blazing fire. Deep waters cannot quench love, nor floods sweep it away. – Traditional Proverb
For those in love, Baghdad is near Istanbul. – Turkish Proverb
Forbear a quarrel with a friend to move: anger breeds hatred; concord sweetens love. – Dutch Proverb
Forced love does not last. – Dutch Proverb
Friendship is a prodigal, but love is a miser. – Traditional Proverb
Friendship is love with intelligence. – German Proverb
Friendship is love with understanding. – Traditional Proverb
Friendship reminds us of fathers, love of mothers. – Malagasy Proverb
Go to friends for advice, woman for love, strangers for charity and relatives for nothing. – Spanish Proverb
Good manners and not beauty leads to love. – Sicilian Proverb
Great hate follows great love. – Irish Proverb
Habit causes love. – Latin Proverb
Happiness is something to do, something to love, something to hope for. – Chinese Proverb
Happy is she who is in love with an old dotard. – Italian Proverb
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. – Albanian Proverb
He who cannot light a fire knows nothing about love. – Finnish Proverb
He who doesn’t feel jealousy is not in love. – African Proverb
He who is in love with himself need fear no rival. – Latin Proverb
He who is not impatient is not in love. – Italian Proverb
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. – Spanish Proverb
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one. – Japanese Proverb
How does one measure time No, not in day, months, or years. It is measured by the most precious of all things Love. Without which all beings and things whether brave andor beautiful would perish. – Traditional Proverb
I love you because you love the things I love. – Traditional Proverb
If a caged bird isn’t singing for love, it’s singing in a rage. – Corsican Proverb
If a man falls in love with a frog, he thinks his frog a very Diana. – Latin Proverb
If between friends there is not equality, there won’t be perfect love. – Sicilian Proverb
If haply a fool should find for himself wealth or a woman’s love, pride waxes in him but wisdom never and onward he fares in his folly. – Norse Proverb
If it is given with love, a mere handful is enough. – Traditional Proverb
If love is a sickness, patience is the remedy. – Cameroonian Proverb
If love is torn apart you cannot stitch the pieces together again. – Malagasy Proverb
If you fall in love let her be a beauty; if you should steal, let it be a camel. – Lebanese Proverb
If you love, love the moon; if you steal, steal a camel. – Egyptian Proverb
If you want to be happy, love the one who loves you, because it’s a waste of time to love someone who doesn’t love you. – Sicilian Proverb
If you want to buy love, love itself is the price you’ll have to pay. – Italian Proverb
In a thousand pounds of law there is not one ounce of love. – Italian Proverb
In every pardon there is love. – Welsh Proverb
In hawks, hounds, arms, and love, for one pleasure a thousand pains. – French Proverb
In hunting and in love you begin when you like and leave off when you can. – Spanish Proverb
In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek. – French Proverb
In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; we will understand only what we are taught. – Senegalese Proverb
In the end…we will take care of only what we love; We will love only what we understand; We will understand only what we are taught. – Hawaiian Proverb
In the eyes of a lover a pock-marked face is one with pretty dimples. – Japanese Proverb
In the eyes of the lover, pock-marks are dimples. – English Proverb
In the face of love and death, courage is useless. – Spanish Proverb
In the war of love who flies conquers. – Italian Proverb
In war, hunting, and love, for one pleasure a hundred pains. – Portuguese Proverb
Inner peace and love are the greatest of God’s gifts. – Native American Lakota Proverb
Involuntary love is worthless. – Sicilian Proverb
It flies at our approach but follows us as we retire. [A Shadow, Glory, or Love.] – Latin Proverb
It is all one whether you die of sickness or of love. – Italian Proverb
It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love. – Jewish Proverb
It is loving too much to die of love. – French Proverb
It is not from the love of God that the cat catches mice. – Persian Proverb
It is overdoing the thing to die of love. – French Proverb
It’s better to fall from a tree and a break your back than to fall in love and break your heart. – African Proverb
Its easy to halve the potato where there’s love. – Traditional Proverb
It’s good to be off wi’ the old love, before ye be on wi’ the new. – Dutch Proverb
It’s much easier to fall in love than to stay in love. – African Proverb
It’s much easier to turn a friendship into love, than love into friendship. – Traditional Proverb
Jove but laughs at lover’s perjury. – Latin Proverb
Kisses are the messengers of love. – Danish Proverb
Let him not be a lover who has not courage. – Italian Proverb
Let him speak soft words and offer wealth who longs for a woman’s love. – Norse Proverb
Let those that love us, love us. And those that don’t, may God turn their hearts. And, if He cannot turn their hearts, May He turn their ankles so we may know them by their limping – Traditional Proverb
Like two golden birds perched on the selfsame tree, intimate friends, the ego and the Self dwell in the same body. The former eats the sweet and sour fruits of the tree of life while the latter looks on in detachment. As long as we think we are the ego, we feel attached and fall into sorrow. But realize that you are the Self, the Lord of life, and you will be freed from sorrow. When you realize that you are the Self, supreme source of light, supreme source of love, you transcend the duality of life and enter into the unitive state. – Traditional Proverb
Likeness is the mother of love. – Italian Proverb
Lonely is a man without love. – Traditional Proverb
Lucky at cards, unlucky in love. – Danish Proverb
Make love like war. – English Proverb
Make love, not war. – American Proverb
Man was born for love. if he hates, he was born in vain. – Hebrew Proverb
Many hens may be in love with one cock, but none will be jealous of the other. – African Proverb
Marriage is the sunset of love. – French Proverb
Marrying for love is risky, but god smiles on it. – Albanian Proverb
May he love tomorrow who has never loved before; And may he who has loved, love tomorrow as well. – Latin Proverb
Mistrust is an axe in the tree of love. – Russian Proverb
Mother’s love is ever in its spring. – French Proverb
Music provokes love. – Latin Proverb
Never confuse gratitude with love. – Mexican Proverb
Never listen to these three advisers: wine, the night, and love. – German Proverb
New love throws out old love. – Sicilian Proverb
No fate is worse than a life without a love. – Mexican Proverb
No folly like being in love. – Latin Proverb
No herb can remedy the anguish of love. – Latin Proverb
No herb will cure love. – Romanian Proverb
No jealousy, no love. – German Proverb
No love like the first love. – Traditional Proverb
No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival. – Traditional Proverb
Of all pains, the greatest pain, is to love, but love in vain. – Spanish Proverb
Of soup and love, the first is the best. – Portuguese Proverb
Old love does not rust. – Estonian Proverb
One always returns to one’s first love. – French Proverb
One does it for love, another for honour, a third for money. – Dutch Proverb
One love drives out another. – Spanish Proverb
One who prevades the great universe is seen by none unless a man knows the unfolding of love. – Moroccan Proverb
Open rebuke is better than secret love. – Biblical Proverb
Our love is like the misty rain that falls softly, but floods the river… – Traditional Proverb
Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love; and then we return home. – Australian Proverb
Out of love for the ox, the wolf licks the yoke. – Spanish Proverb
Perfect love casteth out fear. – Romanian Proverb
Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy. – Traditional Proverb
Perhaps you will soon find another, and a fairer, lover. – Latin Proverb
Pity is akin to love. – French Proverb
Plant kindness and gather love. – Traditional Proverb
Poverty and love are difficult to hide. – Swedish Proverb
Poverty never sped well in love. – Portuguese Proverb
Quarrels enhance the pleasures of love. – Latin Proverb
Raising children engenders love. – Sicilian Proverb
Real love is when you don’t have to tell each other. – French Proverb
Romeo must die in order to save the love. – English Proverb
Sadness is a valuable treasure — only discovered in people you love. – Malagasy Proverb
Salt water and absence wash away love. – Traditional Proverb
Scratch a lover and find an enemy. – German Proverb
Self — love is the worst of all flattery. – French Proverb
Self-love nobody else’s love. – Dutch Proverb
She is beautiful; she has love, understands; she respects herself and others; everyone likes, loves and honours her; she is a goddess. – African Proverb
Love Proverbs
Short love, long sighs. – Romanian Proverb
Small gifts maintain friendship, big ones maintain love. – French Proverb
Stupidity is the lover of ignorance. – Nigerian Proverb
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love. – Spanish Proverb
Tell me who you love, and I’ll tell you who you are. – Native American Creole Proverb
The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. – Hindustani Proverb
The best chaperon a girl can have is to be in love with another fellow. – Albanian Proverb
The best part of happiness lies is in the secret heart of a lover. – Ugandan Proverb
The betrothed of good is evil; the betrothed of life is death; the betrothed of love is divorce. – Malawian Proverb
The extreme form of passionate love is secret love. – Japanese Proverb
The eye lets in love. – Romanian Proverb
The eyes are leaders in love. – Traditional Proverb
The fool sings a love song to his wife, the wise man will talk about his dog. – Turkish Proverb
The fox knows a lot, but a woman in love knows even more. – Spanish Proverb
The greater love is a mother’s; then comes a dog’s; then a sweetheart’s. – Polish Proverb
The greatest hate springs from the greatest love. – French Proverb
The greatest love is a mother’s; then a dog’s; then a sweetheart’s. – Polish Proverb
The growth of love is the essence within the soul. – Hawaiian Proverb
The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet. – English Proverb
The measure of our sacrifice is the measure of our love. – English Proverb
The more physical the love, the more sublime. – Italian Proverb
The Muses love the morning. – Romanian Proverb
The name of Love’s fiancee is Divorce. – Indonesian Proverb
The only cure for love is marriage. – Irish Proverb
The only victory over love is flight. – French Proverb
The pleasure of love lasts but a moment, The pain of love lasts a lifetime. – French Proverb
The pleasures of love are enhanced by injuries. – Latin Proverb
The promises of love and the smoke of a chimney, washed by water and blown away by the wind. – Sicilian Proverb
The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love. – Moroccan Proverb
The woman who does not covet the possessions of her husband is in love with another man. – Egyptian Proverb
There are eyes that fall in love with bleared ones. – Spanish Proverb
There is a time to love, and a time to hate. – Romanian Proverb
There is no love like the first love. – Italian Proverb
There is no physician who can cure the disease of love. – African Proverb
There is nothing worse than an old lover. – Romanian Proverb
There isn’t a Saturday without sun, nor a woman without love. – Corsican Proverb
They wooed her and she resisted; they neglected her and she fell in love. – Arabic Proverb
Three diseases without shame: love, itch, and thirst. – Irish Proverb
Three things have a flavor of the world to come: sabbath, the sun, and married love. – Hebrew Proverb
Time makes love pass. – French Proverb
To be in love and act wisely is scarcely granted to a god. – Latin Proverb
To be in love is to feel the sun from both sides. – Finnish Proverb
To be successful in love, one must know how to begin and when to stop. – Albanian Proverb
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love. – German Proverb
To give is honour, to love is grief. – Spanish Proverb
To love is to choose. – French Proverb
To offer friendship to one who is looking for love, is like giving bread to someone dying of thirst. – Spanish Proverb
To the partial eyes of a lover, pockmarks seem like dimples. – Japanese Proverb
Too much prudishness makes the lover sick. – Turkish Proverb
True love never grows old. – Italian Proverb
True love suffers no concealment. – Spanish Proverb
Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason. – French Proverb
Unlucky in gambling, lucky in love. – Portuguese Proverb
What limit is there in love? – Latin Proverb
What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn. – African Proverb
What you love is always beautiful. – French Proverb
What! No star, and you are going out to sea? Marching, and you have no music? Traveling, and you have no book? What! No love, and you are going out to live? – French Proverb
When a man is not a lover in his twenties, not strong in his thirties, not rich in his forties and not wise in his fifties he will never be so. – Czech Proverb
When an old man falls in love he is teased by everyone. – Sicilian Proverb
When an only kolanut is presented with love, it carries with it more value than might otherwise be associated with a whole pod of several kolanuts. – Nigerian Proverb
When hunger comes through the door, love jumps out the window. – Mexican Proverb
When it rains and the sun comes out, foxes make love. – Corsican Proverb
When love is given, love should be returned, anger gives no life. – Hawaiian Proverb
When love is not madness, it is not love. – Spanish Proverb
When misfortune comes in at the door, love flies out of the window. – German Proverb
When mistrust enters, love departs. – Danish Proverb
When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow. – Ethiopian Proverb
When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window. – Romanian Proverb
When someone offends you, you haven’t given him enough love. – Japanese Proverb
When there’s love, mountains seem like plains. – Sicilian Proverb
When two are in love, only one needs to eat. – Spanish Proverb
When Want comes in at the door, Love flies out at the window. – Dutch Proverb
When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach. – French Proverb
When you have learned about love, you have learned about god. – Native American Fox Proverb
Where distrust enters, love is no more than a boy. – Chilean Proverb
Where love is there the eye is. – Italian Proverb
Where poverty comes in, love goes out. – Swedish Proverb
Where the love is, thither turns the eye. – Latin Proverb
Where there is equality there never can be perfect love. – Italian Proverb
Where there is love, there is happiness. – Polish Proverb
Where there is love, there is peace. – Burmese Proverb
Where there is no trust there is no love. – Traditional Proverb
Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. – English Proverb
Where there’s no jealousy, there’s no love. – German Proverb
Where there’s no love, all faults are seen. – German Proverb
Where there’s no love, there’s no honour. – German Proverb
Whilst kicking and biting, love develops. – Welsh Proverb
Who has cold hands is in love, who has warm hands is loved. – Sicilian Proverb
Who suffers because of love, feels no pain. – Sicilian Proverb
Who suffers from love, feels no pain. – Italian Proverb
Whoever falls in love with an old person laments their fortune. – Sicilian Proverb
Whoever I love is the most beautiful. – Georgian Proverb
Whoever lives within himself is burning with love. – Arab Proverb
Whoever tastes from the head of a poppy will not expect any thing from love. – Chinese Proverb
Why take away something by force which you can obtain by love. – African Proverb
With lightning and with love, the clothes sound, the heart burned. – Spanish Proverb
Without jealousy, love would wither. – Sicilian Proverb
Works, and not words, are the proofs of love. – Mexican Proverb
Wrinkles are the gravestones of love. – Spanish Proverb
You can’t tell the cost of food and fuel without being the head of a household; you can’t appreciate the love of your parents without having children of your own. – Chinese Proverb
You don’t choose whom to love and not love. – Sicilian Proverb
You know who you love, but you can’t know who loves you. – Nigerian Proverb