First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW,
John Bull's Other Island, 1907



Love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Merchant of Venice, 1596



We love what we would scorn if we were wiser.


MARIE DE FRANCE
quoted in Medieval Fables of Marie de France by Jeanette Beer,1981




If thou remember'st not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run into, Thou hast not loved.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
As You Like It, 1599



A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

MARJORIE KLNNAN RAWLINGS
The Yearling, 1938



I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so In whining poetry

JOHN DONNE
"The Triple Fool" in Poems of John Donne, vol. 1,
F. K. Chambers, ed, 1896