Афоризмы о любви

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best (уступающий только самому лучшему).

William Makepeace Thackeray (English writer)

 

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved.

George Eliot (English writer)

 

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche (German philosopher)

 

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (British writer)

 

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Andre Gide (French writer)

 

Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Henry Louis Mencken (American journalist)

 

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Blaise Pascal (French scientist)

 

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Benjamin Disraeli (British politician, Prime Minister)

 

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Benjamin Franklin (American politician)

 

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

Helen Rowland (English-American writer, journalist and humorist)

 

Men always want to be a woman’s first love - women like to be a man’s last romance.

Oscar Wilde (English writer)

 

Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.

Mae West (American actress)

 

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (German writer)

 

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Agatha Christie (English writer)

 

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

Agatha Christie

 

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld (French writer-moralist)

 

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw (English playwright and publicist)

 

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time (время от времени).

Honore de Balzac (French writer)


EnglishРусский
madness безумство
reason разум
to lose терять
to realize понимать
marriage брак
to try пытаться
last последний
romance роман
to conquer преодолеть
except за исключением
poverty бедность
toothache зубная боль
war война
blind слепой
to restore восстанавливать
sight зрение
magic очарование
ignorance неведение
curious любопытный
thought мысль
ridiculous нелепый
to hate ненавидеть
surely несомненно
price цена
true истинный
ghost привидение
sincere искренний
food еда
husband муж
simple простой
difficult сложный
witty остроумный
pretty милый