Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
Honore De Balzac

But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.
Lee Ann Womack

But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
Wendell Willkie

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
Amelia Barr

Death, the final, triumphant lover.
Bela Lugosi

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.
Stevie Nicks

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Aphra Behn

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

Every lover is a soldier.
Ovid

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.
Susie Bright

Faults are beauties in a lover's eye.
Theocritus

For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.
Lionel Blue

For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint.
Marie de France

For years I have played the twenty-something lover.
James MacArthur

Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.
Richard Widmark

He is not a lover who does not love forever.
Euripides

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.
Ben E. King

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
Thomas Kempis