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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

-- Lao Tzu

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.

-- Lynn Lavner

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

-- Stephen Leacock

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

-- Michael Leunig

Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.

-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Mrs. O.H. Browning, April 1, 1838

With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.

-- Abraham Lincoln

Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.

-- Rich Little

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

-- Harold Loukes

It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then."

-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, 1994

We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.

-- Marlin Finch Lupus

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage

-- Martin Luther

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

-- John Lyly

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

-- Lyster

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

-- George Santayana, Reason in Religion