"For you see, each day I love you more, Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow." -Rosemonde Gerard "Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives it ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair." -William Blake "One hour of right-down love Is worth an age of dully living on." -Aphra Behn "Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret." -Aphra Behn "To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." -Jorge Luis Borges "You love the first person who ever touches you and never love anyone quite that way again." -Joan Didion "Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery "The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere They're in each other all along." -Unknown "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." -Plato "One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love." -Sophocles "Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion." -Miguel de Unamuno "The course of true love never did run smooth." -Shakespeare "All's fair in love and war." -Francis Edward Smedley "O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!" -Thomas Dekker "I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so in Whining poetry." -John Donne "All mankind love a lover." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "It is impossible to love and to be wise." -Francis Bacon "A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all." -Thomas Hardy "Love and a cough cannot be hid. " -George Herbert "At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone." -La Bruyere "There are truly only our questions that matter: what is sacred, Of what is the spirit made, What is worth living for, And what is worth dying for? The answer to all of these is love."-Unknown "It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death." -Thomas Mann "I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it." -Luc Besson (French film director) "Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends"~Unknown "Laughter is the way to true love"~Unknown "Why is it that every time I'm with you, Makes me believe in magic?"~Unknown "Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically to those who hardly think about us in return."~Unknown "Work like you don't need the money , Dance like nobodys watching and Love like its never going to hurt..."~Unknown "To the world, she is just one person; to you, she is the world."~Unknown "Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. " -Katharine Hepburn "Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation once you cease to struggle." -Edna Ferber "Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. " -Margaret Atwood "The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man." -- Germaine de Stael "Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise." -- Samuel Johnson "Though love is blind, yet 'tis not for want of eyes." -- Thomas Fuller "My heart smiled when you kissed my lips. What a sweet suprise." -- Jan Arden "Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop." -- Anonymous "We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first." -- Anonymous "We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." -- Anonymous "The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." -- G. K. Chesterton "Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words." -- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Where there is love there is life." -- Gandhi "We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace." -- William Gladstone "The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved." -- Victor Hugo "To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage." -- Lao Tzu "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire." -- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that." -- Michael Leunig "The heart has reasons that reason cannot know." -- Pascal "To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best." -- William M. Thackeray "We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh." -- Agnes Repplier "And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead." -- Philip Robison "'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all." -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850 "Love without reason lasts the longest." -- Unknown "A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain." -Abraham Crowley "So much of what we know of love we learn at home." -unknown "You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without." -unknown "Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes." -unknown "Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction." -Saint-Exupery "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." -Ingrid Bergman "Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies." -John Donne "He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals." -Benjamin Franklin "I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love." -Henry Ward Beecher "Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life." -Joseph Conrad "True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen." -La Rochefoucauld "Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?" -Christopher Marlowe "Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are." -Houssaye "We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together." -La Bruyere "Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." -St. Augustine |