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“'Abdullah ibn Mas'ud reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "No one who has an atom's weight of pride in his heart will enter the Garden [heaven]." A man said, "And if the man likes his clothes to be good and his sandals to be good?" He said, "Allah is Beautiful and loves beauty. Pride means to renounce the truth and abase people.”
Muhammad (571–632) said by 632 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'A'isha reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Allah is kind and loves kindness in every matter.”
Muhammad (571–632) said by 632 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'A'isha reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Allah is kind and loves kindness and gives for gentleness what he does not give for harshness nor for anything else.”
Muhammad (571–632) said by 632 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Prophet said "None of you will have faith till he loves me more than his father, his children and all mankind.”
Muhammad (571–632) said by 632 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Prophet said: Go in Allah's name, trusting in Allah, and adhering to the religion of Allah's Apostle. Do not kill a decrepit old man, or a young infant, or a child, or a woman; do not be dishonest about booty, but collect your spoils, do right and act well, for Allah loves those who do well.”
Muhammad (571–632) said by 632 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The prayer is the standard of Islam. Whosoever loves prayers, and observes their limits, timings and methods, is a true believer.”
Muhammad (571–632) said by 632 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While thus he threw his Elbow round, Depopulating all the Ground, And, with his whistling Sythe, does cut Each stroke between the Earth and Root, The edged Stele by careless chance Did into his own Ankle glance; And there among the Grass fell down, By his own Sythe, the Mower mown. Alas! said He, these hurts are slight To those that dye by Loves despight.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No creature loves an empty space; Their bodies measure out their place.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) first seen 1651 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Upon Appleton House, stanza 2 (1651)
“Whoso loves Believes the impossible.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) said by 1861 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nature loves to hide her secrets, and she does not suffer the hidden truth about the essential nature of the gods to be flung in naked words to the ears of the profane...”
Julian (emperor) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Oration to the Cynic Heracleios (tr. W. C. Wright, ii, 1913)
“When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him.”
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) said by 1519 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“on tolerance of gays: "You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.”
Cyndi Lauper (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The child has talent, loves music, and needs help. I can't give her money, but I can teach her; so I do, and she is the most promising pupil I have. Help one another, is part of the religion of our sisterhood, Fan.”
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) first seen 1870 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Ch. 13 : The Sunny Side; this has often been quoted as "Helping one another, is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
“There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in streight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, ’twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.”
William Penn (1644–1718) said by 1718 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have harbored hate of the Lord in my heart. Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God, He Is, what He Is, and in this world He's apt to repay service with pain while those who do evil ride over the roads in Cadillac cars. Even the joy of serving Him is a bitter joy.”
Stephen King (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The body is a source of endless trouble to us by reason of the mere requirement of food; and is also liable to diseases which overtake and impede us in the search after truth: and by filling us so full of loves, and lusts, and fears, and fancies, and idols, and every sort of folly, prevents our ever having, as people say, so much as a thought.”
Socrates (470–399 BC) said by 399 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.”
J. D. Salinger (1919–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And I hope that everybody who loves this city will put aside party differences to try in the making of Greater London greater still. Let's get cracking tomorrow and let's have a drink tonight.”
Boris Johnson (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The use of “hacker” to mean “security breaker” is a confusion on the part of the mass media. We hackers refuse to recognize that meaning, and continue using the word to mean someone who loves to program, someone who enjoys playful cleverness, or the combination of the two.”
Richard Stallman (born 1953) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The GNU Project", originally published in Open Sources (1998)
“No, the enjoyment of an idle life doesn't cost any money. The capacity for true enjoyment of idleness is lost in the moneyed class and can be found only among people who have a supreme contempt for wealth. It must come from an inner richness of the soul in a man who loves the simple ways of life and who is somewhat impatient with the business of making money.”
Lin Yutang (1895–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.”
Lin Yutang (1895–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust.”
Orson Scott Card (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is in physical and mental oppression that fascism believes; this is what it practices, loves, honors, and glorifies. Oppression is not the ultimate goal but the first principle of fascism, and we know only too well that force as a principle is just as eternally human as its opposite, the idea of justice.”
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who loves his country never forfeits heaven.”
Alfred Austin (1835–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but above all for others — those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.”
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Doctrine of Fascism" (1932)
“I’m not so sure which is better. But she either likes or loves me. And that’s nice.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 30 July 2024 about his wife Melania Trump, cited in "Trump thinks Melania ‘either likes or loves’ him following assassination attempt", Mercury News
“I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that you call a Gentleman and is nothing else.”
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) first seen 1643 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Sir William Spring (September 1643)
“Anyone who loves us Ahlul Bayt must be ready to face a life of austerity.”
Ali (599–661) said by 661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson, Jesus loves you more than you will know. Whoa, whoa, whoa God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson, Heaven holds a place for those who pray. Hey hey hey, hey hey hey.”
Paul Simon (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance Everybody thinks its true.”
Paul Simon (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The universe loves a drama," you know. And ladies and gentlemen this is the show.”
Paul Simon (born 1941) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I Don't Believe; Simon here quotes a comment by his wife, Edie Brickell, on the 2004 US presidential election.
“The man who prays in secret is far more likely to be sincere than he who loves to pray standing in the street, or in the great congregation.”
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do not claim any ability to read God's mind. I am sure of only one thing. When we look at the glory of stars and galaxies in the sky and the glory of forests and flowers in the living world around us, it is evident that God loves diversity. Perhaps the universe is constructed according to a principle of maximum diversity.”
Freeman Dyson (1923–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man loves company — even if it is only that of a small burning candle.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) said by 1799 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She loves this newt-nuzzling blister.”
P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To which we may add this other Aristotelian consideration, that he who confers a benefit on any one loves him better than he is beloved by him again.”
Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) said by 1592 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Michael De Montaigne
“Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t' have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The isle Ææa, where the palace stands Of the early riser, with the rosy hands, Active Aurora; where she loves to dance.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That scene. Let me see. There were seven takes because Rod Steiger couldn't stop crying. He's one of those actors who loves to cry. We did it over and over again.”
Marlon Brando (1924–2004) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking with Truman Capote about the scene with them in the back of a taxi from On the Waterfront, as quoted in "The Duke in His Domain," The New Yorker (1956); reproduced in Rod Steiger: Memoirs of a Friendship (2000)…
“The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.”
Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He sets a thief to guard his purse Who trusts a dial with his hours Or bids a sand-glass bleed away his nights, His days, his loves, his pleasures and his powers. The burthen of his years Is Time's soft footfall, Time's soft Falling Through his joys and tears.”
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.”
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Each mans spills the drink he loves.”
Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She hath wasted with fire thine high places, She hath hidden and marred and made sad The fair limbs of the Loves, the fair faces Of gods that were goodly and glad. She slays, and her hands are not bloody; She moves as a moon in the wane, White-robed, and thy raiment is ruddy, Our Lady of Pain.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who loves not woman, wine, and song / Remains a fool his whole life long.”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) said by 1546 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Anonymous, "On Luther's Love for and Knowledge of Music" in The Musical World. Vol VII, No. 83 (Oct 13, 1837).
“All the passions seek after whatever nourishes them. Fear loves the idea of danger.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) said by 1824 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.”
Joan Didion (1934–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of my earliest loves was the Book of Common Prayer. I was seduced by it, by its beautiful words and the sense of history.”
P. D. James (1920–2014) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Victoria McKee, quoted in Victoria McKee, 'P.D. James', The Times Magazine (22 May 1993), p. 43
“God loves his children”
Thom Yorke (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“NBC announced this week that they will be producing a 3 hour TV movie based on the life of Rudolph Giuliani. To keep the movie real to life, the Giuliani character is really unlikeable until the last 15 minutes, when everyone loves him.”