Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. (<u>As You Like It</u>)
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.
Love is knowing that you want to spend the rest ofyour life with someone, and not knowing if they want to spend it with you.
Love. What is love? No one can define it, its something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love is beyond, what man can define, for love is immortal, and God's gift is divine.
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
I have to admit that I fell in love twice. First was with you and the second was with the person you became when you were already mine.
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.