Love

• The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
• Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
• There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.  It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
• You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
• Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
• Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
• Love has no desire but to fulfill itself.  To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.  To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
• Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners.  Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.
• Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
• Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
• When love is not madness, it is not love.
• Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.
• Do I love you because you're beautiful, Or are you beautiful because I love you?
• For you see, each day I love you more, Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
• Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate!
• Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
• Love is a symbol of eternity.  It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
• Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.
• Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.
• The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.
• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
• Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.
• Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
• The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.
• Love one another and you will be happy.  It's as simple and as difficult as that.
• Who would give a law to lovers?  Love is into itself a higher law.
• Who, being loved, is poor?   Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.
• To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.
• Without love, what are we worth?  Eighty-nine cents!  Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.
• A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
• Shall we compare our hearts to a garden, with beautiful blooms, straggling weeds, swooping birds and sunshine, rain, and most importantly, seeds.....
• Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
• The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it.  You and you alone make me feel that I am alive.  Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
• We loved with a love that was more than love.
• If I love you, what business is it of yours?  The hardest-learned lesson:  that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
• Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
• My debt to you, Belovèd, Is one I cannot pay, In any coin of any realm, On any reckoning day....
• We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
• The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.
• Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
• When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.
• Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
• Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
• A bell is no bell 'til you ring it, A song is no song 'til you sing it, And love in your heart, Wasn’t put there to stay, Love isn’t love, 'Til you give it away.....
• Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.
• Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
• Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
• Passion makes the world go round.  Love just makes it a safer place.
• Love is no respecter of age or practicality, Neither morality: unabashed, She enters where she will, Unheeding that her immortal fires, Burn up human hearts...
• Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
• When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
• Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
• It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
• 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
• A hundred hearts would be too few, To carry all my love for you.
• Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.
• Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
• Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
• Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new.
• Love is not singular except in syllable..
• Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
• People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
• Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little.
• The past is behind us, love is in front and all around us.
• Ah me! why may not love and life be one?
• Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
• Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
• He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
• It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
• You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.
• Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.
• No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation.  And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.
• Love me and the world is mine.
• It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely.  Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.
• The love game is never called off on account of darkness.
• They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above.
• Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
• Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
• You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
• Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
• Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
• The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
• An old man in love is like a flower in winter.
• Will you love me in December as you do in May, Will you love me in the good old fashioned way? When my hair has all turned gray, Will you kiss me then and say, That you love me in December as you do in May?
• Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
• Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
• Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve.
• Love is the poetry of the senses.
• Love is a game that two can play and both win.
• Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house.
• The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters.  It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.
• Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby.
• We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
• We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul.
• All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.
• True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
• Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.
• Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.
• Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.
• Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved.
• A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
• The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.
• I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, After the day's great sun.
• A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
• Love is not consolation.  It is light.
• True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights.  If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
• Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all.
• Loving is never a waste of time.
• Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
• True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.
• Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.
• You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
• Love is what you've been through with somebody.
• Love is being stupid together.
• In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.
• Open your heart and take us in, Love - love and me.
• On a cloudy night, when nothing seems above, still, there is love.  Always love.  For something, from someone.  It's never done.  Never.
• Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love.  I'd stepped in it a few times.
• Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so.
• I love you like crazy, baby 'Cuz I'd go crazy without you.
• What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another.
• I learned the real meaning of love.  Love is absolute loyalty.  People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades.  You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them.  And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting.
• Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee, It passed into thy lifelong regency.
• The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
• At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
• As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
• Love is like a friendship caught on fire.  In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.  As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
• Life only starts when love comes.
• Tell me how many beads there are, In a silver chain Of evening rain, Unravelled from the tumbling main, And threading the eye of a yellow star, So many times do I love again.
• A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
• Love makes time pass; time makes love pass.
• True love stories never have endings.
• It is not that love is blind.  It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.
• I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
• When you're attracted to someone it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously, so what we know as fate is two neuroses knowing that they're a perfect match.
• Platonic love is love from the neck up.
• The music may have stopped but my heart beats to another tune, this rhythm called love.
• We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
• The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
• You really shouldn't say "I love you" unless you mean it.  But if you mean it, you should say it a lot.  People forget.
• Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.
• So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
• Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.
• Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky.
• Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.
• Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you.
• Ah! a blessing beyond all fate, My sole mate 'tis my soul mate.
• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
• Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
• I was half in love with her by the time we sat down.  That's the thing about girls.  Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
• Love means nothing in tennis, but it's everything in life.
• What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
• Love is when you can be your true self with someone, and you only want to be your true self because of them.
• Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever.  He can only lose the woman.
• Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.
• We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love.  It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
• We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. 
• Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
• Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
• While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.
• Love is why I came here in the first place.
• Love is metaphysical gravity.
• Love is my religion - I could die for it.
• Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.
• Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.
• Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
• If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
• Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.
• Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
• Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
• You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.
• Sometimes we make love with our eyes.  Sometimes we make love with our hands.  Sometimes we make love with our bodies.  Always we make love with our hearts.
• True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them.
• You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well.
• Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart.
• Trip over love, you can get up.  Fall in love and you fall forever.
• The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image.  Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
• Love is not blind - it sees more, not less.  But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
• To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.
• No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
• Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

• Today's Multiple Choice Thought There is no place where a loving touch so completely compensates for an unskilled hand as in:

1.   the bedroom
2.   the nursery
3.   the garden
4.   all of the above.

I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit.

• It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you.
• When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others.  That is what the world calls a romance.
• Candle light, moon light, star light, The brightest glow is from love light.
• Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
• Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
• If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
• I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art.
• Love isn't blind, it's retarded.
• Free love? as if love is anything but free.  Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.
• Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
• If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
• I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
• Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.
• Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.
• What I need to live has been given to me by the earth.  Why I need to live has been given to me by you.
• If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.
• Falling in love is so hard on the knees.
• In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
• Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
• In springtime, love is carried on the breeze.  Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head.
• The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
• I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long.  If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
• Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
• The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.
• When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.