Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the Hoods drown it.

SONG OF SOLOMON 8:7



And o'er the hills and far away
Beyond their utmost purple rim,
Beyond the night, across the day,
Through all the world she followed him.

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
"The Day Dream," 1842



Lie to me. Tell me that all these years you've waited. Tell me.

PHILIP YORDAN,
Johnny Guitar, 1954



Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to he irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.

MADELEINE L'ENGLE
Two-Part Invention, 1988



Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the pulling forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.

lLKA CHASE
In Bed We Cry, 1943



When we are not in love too much, we are not in love enough.

COMTE DE BUSSY-RABUTIN
Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules: Maximes d' Amour,1665



"Nothing, so it seems to me", said the stranger, "is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life…The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of-of things longer.

JEROME K. JEROME
The Passing of the Third Floor Back, 1908



She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss. Forever wilt thou love and she be fair.

JOHN KEATS
Ode on a Grecian Urn, 1820



As fair art thou, my bonie lass,
So deep in luve am I,
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry

ROBERT BURNS
"My Luve Is Like a Red Red Rose" (derived from folksongs), 1796



Escape me?
Never-
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you.

ROBERT BROWNING
"Life in a Love," 1855



None shall part us from each other,
One in life and death are we:
All in all to one another- Ito thee and thou to me!

SIR WILLIAM S. GILBERT
Iolanthe, 1882



My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Romeo and Julliet, 1595



True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity

HELEN ROWLAND
A Guide to Men, 1922