Proverbs:

A boy’s love is water in a sieve.
Spanish
A fence between makes love more keen.
German
A man has choice to begin love but not to end it.
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A sweet and innocent compliance is the cement of love.
*
All’s fair in love and war.
*
Always in love, never married.
French
An oyster may be crossed in love.
Sheridan
Be loving and you’ll never want for love.
Muloch
Better a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Solomon
Better to have loved amiss than nothing to have loved.
Crabbe
Blue eyes say, “Love me or I die;” black eyes say, “Love me or I kill thee.”
Spanish
But Love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit.
Shakespeare
By beating love decays.
French
Can a mouse fall in love with a cat?
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Esteem and love were never to be sold.
Pope
For the love of the ox the wolf licks the yoke.
Catalan
For love the wolf eats the sheep.
German
Forced love does not last.
Dutch
He loves thee well who makes thee weep.
Don Quixote
He loves well who never forgets.
Italian, Spanish
He that falls in love with himself will find no rival.
Franklin
He that is in love bids adieu to prudence.
La Fontaine
He who forces love where none is found,
Remains a fool the whole year round.
Spanish
He who loves well is slow to forget.
Spanish
He who would not be indolent let him fall in love.
Ovid
Honor in love is silence.
Massinger
I cannot hate and I am forced to love.
Ovid
I love my friends well but myself better.
French
If you are in love fly to the mountain.
Turkish
If you love me, John, your acts will tell me so.
Spanish
In hunting and in love you begin when you like and leave off when you can.
Spanish
It is all one whether you die of sickness or love.
Italian
It is loving too much to die of love.
French
It is only the blind who ask why they are loved who are fair.
Danish
Love abounds in honey and poison.
Plautus
Love accomplishes all things.
Petrarch
Love all, trust a few, be false to none.
Shakespeare
Love and religion are both stronger than friendship.
Benjamin Disraeli
Love alone begets love.
La Bruyère
Love can make any place agreeable.
Arabian
Love conquers all things, let us yield to love.
Virgil
Love deceives the best of womankind.
Homer
Love does wonders but money makes marriage.
French
Love heats the brain and anger makes a poet.
Juvenal
Love him who tells thee thy faults in private.
Hebrew
Love is a credulous thing.
Ovid
Love is a leveller.
Aaron Hill
Love is a sweet tyrant because the lover endureth his torments willingly.
Niphas
Love is a thing full of anxious fears.
Ovid
Love is as strong as death, many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
Bible
Love is better than fame.
Bayard Taylor
Love is cold without good eating and drinking.
Publius Syrus
Love is incompatible with fear.
Publius Syrus
Love is strong as death, jealousy as cruel as the grave.
Bible
Love lieth deep, love dwells not in lip depths.
Tennyson
Love, like death,
Levels all ranks and lays the shepherd’s crook
Beside the sceptre.
Lytton
Love must be attracted by beauty of mind and body.
Ovid
Love of lads and fire of chats is soon in and soon out.
Derbyshire
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
Shakespeare
Love’s humility is love’s pride.
Bayard Taylor
Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart,
’Tis woman’s whole existence.
Byron
Reason was never admitted into the court of love.
Agricola
Regretting those you love is happiness compared with living with those you hate.
La Bruyère
Sweet is true love tho’ given in vain,
And sweet is death that puts an end to pain.
Tennyson
The approaches of love must be resisted at the first assault lest they undermine at the second.
Pythagoras
The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.
Ovid
The love of fame usually spurs the mind.
Ovid
The love of gaming is the worst of ills.
Young
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
Sidney
The love of money grows as money grows.
Juvenal
The love of pelf increases with the pelf.
Juvenal
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
Juvenal
The love of power is an instinct of the human heart.
Tacitus
The love of power is natural, insatiable and never cloyed by possession.
Bolingbroke
The man who loves is easy of belief.
Ovid
The revolution that turns us all topsy-turvy,—the revolution of love.
Bulwer
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe, is love.
Bailey
Their (women’s) love is always with the lover past.
Homer
There are more calamities in the world arising from love than hatred.
Spectator
There are no reasons that explain love, but a thousand that explain marriage.
Punch
There is beggary in the love that can be reckoned.
Shakespeare
There is more true happiness in the folly of love than in all the wisdom of philosophy.
Fielding
They love least that let men know their love.
Shakespeare
Than never to have loved at all.
Tennyson
True love can fear no one.
Seneca
What is life when wanting love?
Burns
Proverbs theme "Love" in English
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