Robert Green Ingersoll Love Quotations

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.

The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar - his life has been a success.

I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne.

Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both borrower and lender.

In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something.

The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live.

Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart and brain as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest ambition of any girl is to make herself worthy of the love and adoration of some magnificent man.

The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These tributes disclose the character of nations, the ideals of the human race.

When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms.

What light is to the eyes -- what air is to the lungs -- what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are not the limitations of his sympathies. Caring nothing for race, or color, he loves those who speak other languages and worship other gods. Between him and those who suffer, there is no impassable gulf. He salutes the world, and extends the hand of friendship to the human race. He does not bow before a provincial and patriotic god -- one who protects his tribe or nation, and abhors the rest of mankind.

Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.

The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts.

Instead of loving a God, we love each other. Instead of the religion of the sky-the religion of this world-the religion of the family-the love of husband for wife, of wife for husband-the love of all for children. So that now the real religion is: Let us live for each other; let us live for this world without regard for the past and without fear for the future. Let us use our faculties and our powers for the benefit of ourselves and others, knowing that if there be another world, the same philosophy that gives us joy here will make us happy there.