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[Is it] better to be loved rather than feared, or feared
rather than loved. It might be answered that we should
wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly
exist together, if we must choose between them, it is
far safer to be feared than loved.
--Niccolς Machiavelli (1469—1527)
Florentine statesman and political philosopher.
_The Prince_ [written 1513, published 1532]

& note:

Those who love to be feared, fear to be loved.
--Francis, St, de Sales (1567—1622)
French bishop.
In Jean-Pierre Camus, _The Spirit of Saint Frances de Sales_, 7.3 [1952]

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Though jealousy be produced by love, as
ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes
love as ashes smother the flame.
--Marguerite d'Angoulκme (1492—1549)
French writer, Queen of Navarre.
_The Hyptameron_ [1558]

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If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.
--Christopher Marlowe (1564—1593)
English dramatist and poet.
_The Passionate Shepherd to His Love_ [c. 1589]


Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?
--Christopher Marlowe (1564—1593)
English dramatist and poet.
"Hero and Leander" [1598]

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I finally met the girl for me,
The one I do adore.
She's deaf and dumb and over-sexed,
And owns a liquor store.
--attributed to Dean Martin (1917—1995)
American film actor and singer.

The fountain of my heart dried up within me,—
With nought that loved me, and with nought to love,
I stood upon the desert earth alone.
And in that deep and utter agony,
Though then, then even most unfit to die
I fell upon my knees and pray'd for death.
--Charles Robert Maturin (1782—1824)
Irish novelist and dramatist.
_Great Truths by Great Authors_, p. 110 [1856]

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The tragedy of love is indifference.
--W. Somerset Maugham (1874—1965)
English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.
_The Trembling of a Leaf_ [1921]


My parents died when I was so young, my mother
when I was eight, my father when I was ten, that I
know little of them but from hearsay. ... He was
forty when he married my mother, who was more
than twenty years younger. She was a very beautiful
woman and he was a very ugly man.

... One of her great friends was Lady Anglesey, an
American woman who died at an advanced age not
very long ago, and she told me that she had once
said to my mother; 'You're so beautiful and there
are so many people in love with you, why are you
faithful to that ugly little man you've married?' And
my mother answered: 'He never hurts my feelings.'

--W. Somerset Maugham (1874—1965)
English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.
_The Summing Up_, ch. 7 [1938]


The great tragedy of life is not that men
perish, but that they cease to love.
--W. Somerset Maugham (1874—1965)
English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.
_The Summing Up_, ch. 77 [1938]


Love is only the dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
--W. Somerset Maugham (1874—1965)
English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.
_A Writer's Notebook_ [1949]

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No love, no friendship can cross the path of
our destiny without leaving some mark on it
forever.
--attributed to Franηois Mauriac (1885—1970)
French poet, novelist, and dramatist.

Having someone wonder where you are when
you don't come home at night is a very old
human need.
--Margaret Mead (1901—1978)
American anthropologist.
Quoted in "Reader's Digest" [1982].

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
--attributed to H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.

That old miracle —
Love-at-first-sight —
Needs no explanations.
The heart reads aright
Its destiny sometimes.
--Owen Meredith (pseudonym of Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
_Lucile_ p. 317 [1860]

I know I am but summer to your heart,
And not the full four seasons of the year;
And you must welcome from another part
Such nobel moods as are not mine, my dear.
--Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892—1950)
American poet.
"I know I am but summer"
_The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems_ [1923]

It was amazing how much things could change between two people.
That you could feel a person was your eternal mate one day and
three months later bump into him in the flower district and hardly
know what to say. It was after she'd fallen in love with him after
they'd not been able to see each other _on a friendly basis_, so
it was disorienting to see his figure standing there on the sidewalk,
purporting to be like anyone else's.
--Susan Minot
_Rapture_ [2002]

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.
--Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau (1715—1789)
French political economist and father of the French
revolutionary Comte de Mirabeau.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Pearls of Thought_, p. 1 [1882].

I love children, especially when they cry,
because then someone takes them away.
--Nancy Mitford (1904—1973)
English writer.
_The Water Beetle_, pt. 2, ch. 8 [1962]

It is not the most lovable individual who stands
most in need of love, but the most unlovable.
--Ashley Montagu [Israel Ehrenberg] (1905—1999)
English anthropologist and humanist.
Quoted in "Think" (pub. by IBM) [1960].

If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come
to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last
would win the prize.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 20 [15th ed. 1894].

The pious man and the atheist always talk of religion;
the one speaks of what he loves, and the other of what
he fears.
--Baron de Montesquieu (Charles Louis de Secondat) (1689—1755)
French philosopher, jurist, and satirist.
_The Spirit of the Laws_, vol. 2, bk. XXV, ch. I [1748]

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Believe me if all those endearing young charms,
Which I gaze on so fondly today,
Were to change by tomorrow and fleet in my arms,
Like fairy gifts fading away!
Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou art,
Let thy loveliness fade as it will
And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart
Would entwine itself verdantly still.

It is not while beauty and youth are thine own,
And thy cheeks unprofaned by a tear,
That the fervor and faith of a soul may be known,
To which time will but make thee more dear!
Oh the heart that has truly loved never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close,
As the sunflower turns to her god when he sets
The same look which she turned when he rose!

--Thomas Moore (1779—1852)
Irish poet, satirist, composer, and musician.
"Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms" [1808]

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In love matters; keep your pen from paper.
--Alfred de Musset (1810—1857)
French poet, dramatist, and author.
Attributed in A. Sydney Roberts
_In and Out of Book and Journal_, p. 39 [1892].

I can neither eat nor sleep for thinking of You,
my dearest love. I never touch even pudding.
--Horatio Nelson (1758—1805)
British naval commander.
Letter to Lady Emma Hamilton [1800].

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To discover he is loved in return ought really to
disenchant the lover with the beloved. 'What?
She is so modest as to love even you? Or so
stupid? — Or —'
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.
_Beyond Good and Evil_ [1886], "Maxims and Interludes," No. 102


Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so
that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.
_Beyond Good and Evil_ [1886], "Maxims and Interludes," No. 120

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Age does not protect you from love. But love,
to some extent, protects you from age.
--Anaοs Nin (1903—1977)
French-born American writer.
_Winter of Artifice_ [1939]


Love never dies a natural death. It dies because
we don't know how to replenish it's source. It
dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It
dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness,
of witherings, of tarnishings.
--Anaοs Nin (1903—1977)
French-born American writer.
_Winter of Artifice_ [1939]


Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It creates the failures. It makes
others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you.
You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with
his panic.
--Anaοs Nin (1903—1977)
French-born American writer.
_The Diary of Anaοs Nin_, vol. 4
[Written 1944—1947 & first published in 1966.]

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When I was a child, my grandmother died and was buried
in the churchyard in Castlecomer, Ireland. The following
year I went there on holiday. One day we drove to visit
relatives, I in the back seat with my grandfather. As we
passed the graveled driveway leading up to the churchyard,
my grandfather, thinking he was unobserved, pressed his
face against the window of the car and with a small,
hidden motion of his hand, waved. It was then I came to
my first understanding of the majesty and vulnerability
of love.
--Herbert O'Driscoll
Canadian Anglican Priest and author,
_A Doorway in Time_ [1985]

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Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
--Ouida [Maria Louise de la Ramιe] (1839—1908)
English novelist.
_Held in Bondage_ [1863]


Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men
know that of all dead things none are so past recall as
a dead passion.
--Ouida [Maria Louise de la Ramιe] (1839—1908)
English novelist.
_Ariadne_ [1877]

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If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt
power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one
way, my understanding leads me another.
--Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 B.C.—18 A.D.)
Roman poet.
"Metamorphoses", VII, 18

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania.
--Dorothy Parker (1893—1967)
American critic and humorist.
"Comment" l. I [1926]


By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying —
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.
--Dorothy Parker (1893—1967)
American critic and humorist.
"Unfortunate Coincidence" [1926]


With your hand in mine, idly we'll recline
Amid bowers of neuroses,
While the sun seeks rest in the great red west
We'll sit and match psychoses.
--Dorothy Parker (1893—1967)
American critic and humorist.
"The Passionate Freudian to His Love"
(Parody of Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love".)

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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
--Blaise Pascal (1623—1662)
French mathematician, physicist, and moralist.
_Pensιes_ ("Thoughts"), no. 680 [1658]

To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.
--Petrarch [Francesco Petrarca] (1304—1374)
Italian scholar, poet, and Humanist.
"'To Laura in Death"

Life is the first gift, love is the second,
and understanding the third.
--Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
American poet and novelist.
Attributed; probably in her novel _Gone To Soldiers_ [1987].

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
--Edgar Allan Poe (1809—1849)
American poet and short-story writer.
"Annabel Lee" published in the "New York Tribune" [9 October 1849].

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Birds do it, bees do it,
Even educated fleas do it.
Let's do it, let's fall in love.
--Cole Porter (1892—1964)
American songwriter.
"Let's Do It" (1954 song)
(Words added to original 1928 song, replacing
lines including "Chinks do it, Japs do it.")


The girls today in society
Go for classical poetry,
So to win their hearts,
you must quote with ease
Aeschylus and Euripides;
But the poet of them all,
Who will start them simply ravin'
Is the poet people call
The bard of Stratford-on-Avon!

Brush... up... your Shakespeare,
Start... quoting him now!
Brush... up... your Shakespeare,
And the women you will wow!

Just declaim a few lines from Othello
And she'll think you're a hell of a fellow;
If your blonde won't respond when you flatter her,
Tell her what Tony told Cleopaterer
If she fights when her clothes you are mussing
What are clothes? much ado About nussing!
Brush... up... your Shakespeare,
And they'll all kowtow!

--Cole Porter (1892—1964)
American songwriter.
"Brush Up your Shakespeare" [1948 song from the show "Kiss Me Kate"]

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The essential sadness is to go through life without
loving. But it would be almost equally sad to go
through life and leave this world without ever
telling those you loved that you had loved them.
--John Joseph Powell (b. 1925)
_Unconditional Love_ [1978], "The God of Love"


Going out to another in love means risk — the risks of self-disclosure,
rejection, misunderstanding. It means grief, too, from the temporary
separations, psychological or physical, to the final separation of
death.

Whoever insists on personal security and safety as the nonnegotiable
conditions of life will not be willing to pay love's price or find love's
enrichments.

Whoever shuts himself or herself up in the cocoon of self-protective
defenses, keeping others always at a safe distance and holding on
tightly to personal possessions and privacy, will find the price of
love far too high and will remain forever a prisoner of fear.

--John Joseph Powell (b. 1925)
_Unconditional Love_ [1978]

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I loved you and it may be that my love within my
soul has not yet altogether died away; howbeit,
it will not trouble you any more, I do not wish to
sadden you in any way. I loved you in silence
and without hope, worn out now with jealousy
and now with shamfastedness; I loved you so
truly and so tenderly as may God grant you may
be loved by some other one.
--Alexander Pushkin (1799—1837)
Russian poet.
"I Loved You" [1829]

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"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"
by Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552—1618)
English explorer and courtier.
(Response to Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love".)

If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd's tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy love.

Time drives the flocks from field to fold
When rivers rage and rocks grow cold,
And Philomel becometh dumb;
The rest complains of cares to come.

The flowers do fade, and wanton fields
To wayward winter reckoning yields;
A honey tongue, a heart of gall,
Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.

Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses,
Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies
Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten-
In folly ripe, in season rotten.

Thy belt of straw and ivy buds,
Thy coral clasps and amber studs,
All these in me no means can move
To come to thee and be thy love.

But could youth last and love still breed,
Had joys no date nor age no need,
Then these delights my mind might move
To live with thee and be thy love.

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A woman has got to love a bad man once or
twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.
--Marjorie Rawlings (1896—1953)
American novelist.
_The Yearling_, ch. 12 [1938]

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart
filling up as the brain empties.
--attributed to Jules Renard (1864—1910)
French novelist and dramatist.

We cannot really love anybody
with whom we never laugh.
--Agnes Repplier (1855—1950)
American author.
_Americans and Others_ [1912]

The woman who has too easily and ardently yielded
her devotion, will find that its vitality, like a bright
fire, soon consumes itself.
--Antoine de Rivarol (1753—1801)
French man of letters.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou
_Notable Thoughts About Women_, p. 277 [1882].

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It takes a woman twenty years to make a man
of her son, and another woman twenty minutes
to make a fool of him.
--Helen Rowland (1875—1950)
American writer.
_Reflections of a Bachelor Girl_ [1909]


The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove
to a man that his intentions are serious.
--Helen Rowland (1875—1950)
American writer.
Attributed in _Women's Wit and Wisdom_
(pub. by Running Press) [1991].


In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding
the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.
--Helen Rowland (1875—1950)
American writer.
Attributed in Herb Galewitz _Love: A Book of Quotations_ [1998].

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Why do people say 'make the same mistake again'? What
does 'again' add to the sentence? And am I right that 'burn
up' and 'burn down' mean the same thing? 'Slow up' and
'slow down' mean the same thing? So if 'screw up' is
acceptable, why not 'screw down'?" ... "And take this
phrase 'head over heels in love.' " he continued. "This is
a common expression, yes? But it's exactly backward.
Or, rather, upside down. You are ordinarily head over
heels. When you are in love you should be heels over
head. Am I right?
--Vasily Gregorovich Lunarcharsky (Vaygay),
a character in Carl Sagan _Contact_ [1985]
Part I, "The Message", Chapter 9, "The Numinous"

Tell me who admires you and loves
you, and I will tell you who you are.
--attributed to Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804—1869)
French critic and literary historian.

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-Exupιry (1900—1944)
French novelist.
_Wind, Sand and Stars_ (Terre des Hommes) [1939]

In love, one and one are one.
--attributed to Jean-Paul Sartre (1905—1980)
French philosopher, novelist, and dramatist;
winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize for literature.

Here is how we are different from those wonderful plants and
animals. As long as we can love each other and remember the
feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going
away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories
are still there. You live on in the hearts of everyone you have
touched and nurtured while you were here. Death ends a life,
not a relationship.
--Morris "Morrie" S. Schwartz (1916—1995)
Sociology professor and author.
In Mitch Albom _Tuesdays With Morrie_ [1997].

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I stand by the bed where a young woman lies, her face
postoperative, her mouth twisted in palsy, clownish.
A tiny twig of the facial nerve, the one to the muscles
of her mouth, has been severed. She will be thus from
now on. The surgeon had followed with religious fervor
the curve of her flesh; I promise you that. Nevertheless,
to remove the tumor in her cheek, I had cut the little
nerve.

Her young husband is in the room. He stands on the
opposite side of the bed, and together they seem to
dwell in the evening lamplight, isolated from me,
private. Who are they, I ask myself, he and this wry-
mouth I have made, who gaze at and touch each other
so generously, greedily?

The young woman speaks. "Will my mouth always be
like this?" she asks. "Yes," I say, "it will. It is because the
nerve was cut." She nods, and is silent. But the young
man smiles. "I like it," he says. "It is kind of cute."

All at once I know who he is. I understand, and I lower
my gaze. One is not bold in an encounter with a god.
Unmindful, he bends to kiss her crooked mouth, and
I so close I can see how he twists his own lips to
accommodate to hers, to show her that their kiss still
works.

I remember that the gods appeared in ancient Greece as
mortals, and I hold my breath and let the wonder in.

--Richard Selzer, M.D.
_Touched By Something Divine_ [1974], "Encounter With A God"

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That's a deep story of a deeper love,
For he was more than over shoes in love.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_The Two Gentlemen of Verona_, I, i [1590-91]


The course of true love never did run smooth.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_A Midsummer Night's Dream_, I, i [1595-96]


But love is blind.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_The Merchant of Venice_, II, vi [1596-98]


Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Julius Caesar_, III, ii [1599]


ROSALIND: But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak?
ORLANDO: Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_As You Like It_, III, ii [1599]


Speak of them as they are; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice; then you must speak
Of one that lov'd not wisely, but too well.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Othello_, V, ii, [1602-04]

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Those who do not yet love one another deeply have need
of words; those who deeply love, thrive on silences.
--Fulton John Sheen (1895—1979)
Roman Catholic bishop; the first popular preacher to appear on television.
_Three to Get Married_ [1951]

All love is sweet,
Given or returned.
Common as light is love,
And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
They who inspire it most are fortunate,
As I am now; but those who feel it most
Are happier still.
--Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)
English poet.
"Prometheus Unbound", Act ii. Sc. 5

All's fair in love and war.
--Frank Edward Smedley (1818—1864)
English novelist.
_Frank Fairlegh or Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil_ [1850]

To the world you may be just one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
--attributed to Brandi Snyder

The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest
tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love
the coldest end; and from the deepest desire
oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.
--Socrates (470?—399 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.
Attributed in _Arliss's Literary Collections:
Original And Selected ..._, p. 30 [1825].

No man loves life like him that's growing old.
--Sophocles (496?—406 B.C.)
Greek dramatist.
"Acrisius" fragment 64

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There's a new world somewhere
They call The Promised Land
And I'll be there some day
If you will hold my hand
I still need you there beside me
No matter what I do
For I know I'll never find another you

There is always someone
For each of us they say
And you'll be my someone
For ever and a day
I could search the whole world over
Until my life is through
But I know I'll never find another you

It's a long, long journey
So stay by my side
When I walk through the storm
You'll be my guide, be my guide

If they gave me a fortune
My treasure would be small
I could lose it all tomorrow
And never mind at all
But if I should lose your love, dear
I don't know what I'll do
For I know I'll never find another you

--"I'll Never Find Another You"
Words and music by Tom Springfield
[1965 song sung by The Seekers]

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Love is the whole history of a woman's
life, it is only an episode in man's.
--Madame de Staλl [Anna-Louise-Germaine Necker] (1766—1817)
French writer.
_De l'Influence des Passions_, preface [1796]

In men, desire begets love; and in women, love begets desire.
--Jonathan Swift (1667—1745)
Anglo-Irish poet and satirist.
_Journal to Stella_ (entry for 30 October 1712) [1768]

Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
--Rabindranath Tagore (1861—1941)
Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright,
and painter who won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature.
_Firflies_, p. 271 [1928]

Love is friendship set on fire.
--David Graham Phillips
_The Husband's Story: A Novel_ [1910]
Also attributed to Caroline Russell Bispham in Mollie Stanley-
Wrench (ed.) _The Lyceum Book of Verse_ [1931], and to
Jeremy Taylor in "Reader's Digest" [1944].

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In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove;
In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809—1892)
English poet.
_Locksley Hall_ [1842]


I hold it true, whate'er befall,
I feel it when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809—1892)
English poet.
"In Memoriam A. H. H." [1850]
(Arthur Henry Hallam was the fiancι of Tennyson's
sister Emily and died suddenly in September 1833.)

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Say what you will, 'tis better to be
left than never to have been loved.
--William Congreve (1670—1729)
English dramatist.
"The Way of the World", II, i [1700]

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For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no
better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.
--Terence [Publius Terentius Afer] (c. 190—159 BC)
Roman comic dramatist.
_The Eunuch_

Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully
as absence, and no absence so thoroughly
as that which must needs be endless.
--Anthony Trollope (1815—1882)
English novelist [son of Frances Trollope].
_The Last Chronicle of Barset_ [2 vol., 1867]

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 not.
--Henry Van Dyke (1852—1933)
American clergyman, educator, and author.
Inscribed on the base of a sun-dial presented to Mrs. Katrina Trask.
In _The Dial_ [19 December 1901].

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident,
a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern
over Philadelphia.
--Judith Viorst (b. 1931)
American author.
"What IS This Thing Called Love?"
_Redbook_ (mag.) [February 1975]


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.
--Judith Viorst (b. 1931)
American author.
Quoted in "Reader's Digest" [1975].

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Love conquers all things;
let us too give in to Love.
--Virgil (70—19 B.C.)
Roman poet.
_Eclogues_, no. 10, l. 69

Beware you are not swallowed up in books: an
ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
--John Wesley (1703—1791)
English preacher and founder, with his brother Charles,
of the Methodist movement in the Church of England.
Letter to Joseph Benson [7 November 1768].

A woman in love can't be reasonable —
or she probably wouldn't be in love.
--attributed to Mae West (1893—1980)
American stage and film actress.

The dream of the American male is for a female
who has an essential languor which is not laziness,
who is unaccompanied except by himself, and who
does not let him down. He desires a beautiful, but
comprehensible, creature who does not destroy a
perfect situation by forming a complete sentence.
--E.B. [Elwyn Brooks] White (1899—1985)
American essayist and literary stylist.
"Notes of our Times," in _The Second Tree from the Corner_ [1954].

We always believe our first love is
our last, and our last love our first.
--George Whyte-Melville (1821—1878)
Scottish novelist and poet.
_Katerfelto: A Story of Exmoor_ [1875]

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
--Eliezer [Elie] Wiesel (b. 1928)
Romanian Jew and Holocaust survivor; winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
in 1986. In "U.S. News and World Report" [27 October 1986].

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Men always want to be a woman's first love.
That is their clumsy vanity. We women have
a more subtle instinct about things. What we
like is to be a man's last romance.
--Oscar Wilde (1854—1900)
Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet.
_A Woman of No Importance_, act 2 [1893]


Keep love in your heart. A life without it is
like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
The consciousness of loving and being loved
brings a warmth and richness to life that
nothing else can bring.
--Oscar Wilde (1854—1900)
Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet.
Quoted in Francis Archibald Kelhead
_Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas_ [1949].


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!
--Oscar Wilde (1854—1900)
Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet.
_The Ballad of Reading Gaol_, pt. 1, st. 7 [1898]

& note:

[Bassanio asks Shylock:]
Do all men kill the things they do not love?
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_The Merchant of Venice_ [1596-98]

& see:

All men kill the thing they hate, too,
unless, of course, it kills them first.
--James Thurber (1894—1961)
American humorist and cartoonist.
_Further Fables for Our Time_ [1956]

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I used to dream that I would discover
The perfect lover someday.
I knew I'd recognize him
If ever he came 'round my way.
I always used to fancy then
He'd be one of the God-like kind of men,
With a giant brain and a noble head
Like the heroes bold in the books I read.
But along came Bill,
Who's not my type at all,
You'd meet him on the street and never notice him
His form and face,
His manly grace,
Are not the kind that you would find in a statue.
Oh, I can't explain,
It's surely not his brain
That makes me thrill.
I love him, because he's wonderful,
Because he's just my Bill.
--P.G. [Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse with
Oscar Hammerstein II as rewritten for the musical "Show Boat".
(The music for _Bill_ was composed by Jerome Kern.)

Oscar Hammerstein II (1895—1960) American songwriter.
Jerome Kern (1885—1945) American composer.
P.G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse (1881—1975)
English humorist; American citizen from 1955.

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When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true;
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

And bending down beside the glowing bars
Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

--William Butler Yeats (1865—1939)
Irish poet and dramatist who received the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
"When You Are Old"

-

I've been in love with the same woman for forty-
one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.
--attributed to Henny Youngman (1906—1998)
English-born American stand-up comedian.

-

After my husband died I would go into his closet and hug
his suits, because they smelled of his own body odor, slight
cigarette smell, and aftershave. I'd stand there, hugging his
clothes, making believe, close my eyes, and cry.
--anon. in Avery N. Gilbert & Charles J. Wysocki
"The Smell Results" _National Geographic_ [October 1987].

-

When poverty comes in at the door,
love flies out the window.
--Saying [17th century]

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return,
they were always yours. If they don't, they never
were.
--anon.

Love begins with a smile, grows with
a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
--anon.

Say it with flowers
Or say it with sweets
Boxes of chocolates
Or plush theatre seats
Say it with diamonds
Or say it with mink
But whatever you do
Don't say it in ink.
--anon.

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

-

Questions concerning love and wisdom were posed to a group of
children (Ages 5 to 10). Their responses were amazingly astute
and very enlightening, thus proving that all we need to know we
probably learned in kindergarten.

WHAT IS THE PROPER AGE TO GET MARRIED?

"Eighty-four. Because at that age, you don't have to work anymore,
and you can spend all your time loving each other in your bedroom.
(Judy, 8)

"Once I'm done with kindergarten, I'm going to find me a wife." (Tommy, 5)


WHAT DO MOST PEOPLE DO ON A DATE?

"On the first date, they just tell each other lies, and that usually gets them interested enough to go for a second date." (Mike, 10)


WHEN IS IT OKAY TO KISS SOMEONE?

"You should never kiss a girl unless you have enough bucks to buy her a big ring of her own, and a VCR 'cause she'll want to have videos of the wedding." (Jim, 10)

"Never kiss in front of other people. It's a big embarrassing thing if anybody sees you. But if nobody sees you, I might be willing to try with a handsome boy, but just for a few hours." (Kally, 9)


THE GREAT DEBATE: IS IT BETTER TO BE SINGLE OR MARRIED?

"It's better for girls to be single, but not for boys. Boys need somebody to clean up after them."(Lynette, 9)

"It gives me a headache to think about that stuff. I'm just a kid. I don't need that kind of trouble." (Kenny, 7)


CONCERNING WHY LOVE HAPPENS BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE:

"No one is sure why it happens, but I heard it has something to do with how you smell. That's why perfume and deodorant are so popular." (Jan, 9)

"I think you're supposed to get shot with an arrow or something, but the rest of it isn't supposed to be so painful." (Harlen, 8)


ON WHAT FALLING IN LOVE IS LIKE:

"Like an avalanche where you have to run for your life." (Roger, 9)

"If falling in love is anything like learning to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes to long to learn." (Leo, 7)


ON THE ROLE OF GOOD LOOKS IN LOVE AND ROMANCE:

"If you want to be loved by somebody who isn't already in your family, it doesn't hurt to be beautiful." (Jeanne, 8)

"It isn't always just how you look. Look at me. I'm handsome like anything and I haven't got anybody to marry me yet." (Gary, 7)

"Beauty is skin deep. But how rich you are can last a long time." (Christine, 9)


CONCERNING WHY LOVERS OFTEN HOLD HANDS:

"They want to make sure their rings don't fall off, because they paid good money for them." (David, 8)


CONFIDENTIAL OPINIONS ABOUT LOVE:

"I'm in favor of love as long as it doesn't happen when 'The Simpsons' are on TV." (Anita, 6)

"Love will find you, even if you are trying to hide from it. I've been trying to hide from it since I was five, but the girls keep finding me." (Bobby, 8)

"I'm not rushing into being in love. I'm finding fourth grade hard enough." (Regina, 10)


PERSONAL QUALITIES NECESSARY TO BE A GOOD LOVER:

"One of you should know how to write a check. Because, even if you have tons of love, there is still going to be a lot of bills." (Ava, 8)


SOME SUREFIRE WAYS TO MAKE A PERSON FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU:

"Tell them that you own a whole bunch of candy stores." (Del, 6)

"Don't do things like have smelly, green sneakers. You might get attention, but attention ain't the same thing as love." (Alonzo, 9)

"One way is to take the girl out to eat. Make sure it's something she likes to eat. French fries usually works for me." (Bart, 9)


HOW CAN YOU TELL IF TWO ADULTS EATING DINNER AT A RESTAURANT ARE IN LOVE?

"Just see if the man picks up the check. That's how you can tell if he's in love." (John, 9)

"Lovers will just be staring at each other and their food will get cold. Other people care more about the food," (Brad, 8)

"It's love if they order one of those desserts that are on fire. They like to order those because it's just like their hearts are... on fire." (Christine, 9)


WHAT MOST PEOPLE ARE THINKING WHEN THEY SAY, "I LOVE YOU":

"The person is thinking: Yeah, I really do love him, but I hope he showers at least once a day." (Michelle, 9)


HOW A PERSON LEARNS TO KISS:

"You learn it right on the spot, when the gooshy feelings get the best of you." (Doug, 7)

"It might help if you watched soap operas all day." (Carin, 9)


WHEN IS IT OKAY TO KISS SOMEONE?

"It's never okay to kiss a boy. They always slobber all over you...that's why I stopped doing it." (Jean, 10)


HOW TO MAKE LOVE ENDURE:

"Spend most of your time loving instead of going to work." (Tom, 7)

"Don't forget your wife's name...that will mess up the love." (Roger, 8)

"Be a good kisser. It might make your wife forget that you never take the trash out." (Randy, 8)

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^^

Trevor Tasker's steamy online romance took a turn
for the worse when he flew to the US to marry his
cyber girlfriend. Instead of the 30-year-old beauty
he was expecting, Tasker, 27, was greeted at the
airport by 65-year-old Wynema Shumate, who
weighs 20 stone. Worse, when she took him back
to her flat, he discovered that she kept the dead
body of a former flatmate in her freezer. Shumate
has been jailed, and Tasker has vowed never to go
online again.
--_The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes_
[2005] Introduced by Edward Leeson, "Love and Marriage"

^^

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amative [AM-uh-tiv], adjective:
Pertaining to or disposed to love, especially
sexual love; full of love; amorous.

besot (verb) [bi-'saht]
To muddle or stupefy, as with liquor—
or love; to infatuate, to make a sot of.

billet-doux [bil-ay-DOO], noun;
plural billets-doux [bil-ay-DOO(Z)]:
A love letter or note.

philter [FIL-tur], noun:
1. A potion or charm supposed to cause
the person taking it to fall in love.
2. A potion or charm believed to have
magic power.


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