"Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions." - Woody Allen

"The only way to be happy is to love to suffer." - Woody Allen

"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities." - Janos Arany

"This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own." - Aristotle

"I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die." - Gamaliel Bailey

"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable." - Henry Ward Beecher

"Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret." - Aphra Behn, The Lover's Watch

"Hell, Madame, is to love no longer." - Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest

"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal." - Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:1

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." - Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:13

"Love covers over a multitude of sins." - Bible, 1 Peter 4:8

"It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon." - Christian Nestell Bovee

"If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues." - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you if you were the best of women, --or stop loving you, no matter what you do." - Catullus

"He is not a lover who does not love forever." - Euripides

"Hatred is blind, as well as love." - Thomas Fuller, M. D.

"A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life." - George Gordon

"People who throw kisses are mighty hopelessly lazy." - Bob Hope

"The love we give away is the only love we keep." - Elbert Green Hubbard

"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated." - Alphonse de Lamartine, Premières méditations poétiques

"Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the soverign's ruination." - Napoleon

"Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them." - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fire." - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

"If you wished to be loved, love." - Seneca

"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment." - William Shakespeare

"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else." - George Bernard Shaw

"The greatest pleasure of life is love." - William Temple

"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." - Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination." - Voltaire

"If it is your time love will track you down like a cruise missile. If you say 'No! I don't want it right now,' that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke." - Barry, Lynda 1983 'Big Ideas'

"IA ORA TE NATURA Nature lives (life to nature) E MEA AROFA TEIE AO NEI Have pity of the earth (love the earth) UA OAU TE MAITAI NO TE FENUA The bounty of the land is exhausted TE VAI NOA RA TE ORA O TE MITIE But there is still life in the sea" - Buffett, Jimmy (and Bobby Holcomb) from 'One Particular Harbour'

"L'amour vient de l'aveuglement, l'amitie de la connaisance. T: 'Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.'" - Bussy-Rabutin, Compte des

"Where there is great love there are always miracles." - Cather, Willa

"Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do." - Collingwood, R. G.

"This fundamental truth--that women are not just men who can have babies and men are not just women who spike footballs--gives marriage its vitality, its dynamics, its delights, and its divorce." - Cosby, Bill in 'Love and Marriage' 1989

"...losing through you what seemed myself, i find selves unimaginably mine; beyond sorrow's own joys and hopings very fears yours is the light by which my spirit's born: yours is the darkness of my soul's return you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars." - cummings, e. e.

"In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, we will understand only what we are taught." - Dioum, Baba

"Our two souls, therefore, which are one Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat." - Donne, John (1572-1631) in 'A Valediction Forbidding Mourning,' 5th stanza

"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach." - Fern, Fanny (1811-1872) in 'Willis Parton'

"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, and in a sense tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent." - Fromm, Erich

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)

"At the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love." - Guevara, Che from 'Man and Socialism in Cuba'

"Joys divided are increased." - Holland, Josia Gilbert

"Secret forces are bringing compatible spirits together. If the man permits himself to be led by this ineffable attraction, good fortune will come his way. When deep friendships exist, formalities and elaborate preparations are not necessary." - I Ching c1150 B.C.

"Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one." - Japanese proverb

"Freindship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace." - Lamartine, Alphonse de (1790-1869)

"Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart." - Lamartine, Alphonse de (1790-1869)

"Music is love in search of a word." - Lanier, Sidney

"There is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love--the first fluttering of its silken wings." - Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution." - Mencken, H[enry] L[ouis] (1880-1956)

"To be loved, be lovable." - Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 B.C.-A.D. c18) in 'Ars Amatoria', II, 107

"For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love - this is the eternal law." - Pali Canon [Sacred scriptures of Theravada Buddhists] in 'Suttapitaka', Dhammapada 1:5 c500-c250 B.C

"'All you need is love'? Yeah? Try payin' the fuckin' rent with it." - Richards, Kieth

"'Goodbye,' said the fox. 'And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.'" - Sainte-Exubery, Antoine de in 'The Little Prince'

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another." - Swift, Jonathan

"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man." - Tagore, Rabindranath

"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." - Tolstoy, Leo Nikolaevich (1828-1910) in 'War and Peace', VII:16

"Absence diminishes a mediocre passion and augments a great one. Like the wind blows out the candle and lights the fire." - Unknown

"Spouse, n: Someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single in the first place." - Unknown found in Andy Cannon's (andrewc@spider.co.uk) .signature

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars." - VanDyke, Henry

"Omnia vincit Amor; et nos cedamus Amori. T: 'Love conquers all; Let us too yield to Love.'" - Virgil

"Life is one fool thing after another where as love is two fool things after each other." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

"Men always want to be a woman's first love--women like to be a man's last romance." - Wilde, Oscar

"One hour of right-down love
Is worth an age of dully living on."
- APHRA BEHN, The Rover

"Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith." - BIBLE, Proverbs 15:17

"Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death." - BIBLE, Song of Solomon 8:6

"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear." - BIBLE, I John 4:18

"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." - JORGE LUIS BORGES, Other Inquisitions

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach."
- ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Sonnets from the Portuguese

"God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures
Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with,
One to show a woman when he loves her!"
- ROBERT BROWNING, One Word More

"O my luve's like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June:
O my luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly play'd in tune."
- ROBERT BURNS, A Red, Red Rose

"O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!" - THOMAS DEKKER, The Honest Whore

"Love all love of other sights controls,
And makes one little room an everywhere."
- JOHN DONNE, The Good Morrow

"I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
In whining Poetry."
- JOHN DONNE, The Triple Fool

"For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age,
When no man dies for love, but on the stage."
- JOHN DRYDEN, Mithridates

"It seems that it is madder never to abandon oneself, than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive, and a slave, than always to walk in armour." - MARGARET FULLER, Summer on the Lakes

"At the beginning and at the end of love the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone." - LA BRUYERE, Les Caracteres

"If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims

"It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks of it, but few have seen it." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death." - THOMAS MANN, The Magic Mountain

"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?" - CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, Hero and Leander

"Come live with me, and be my love;
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields."
- CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

"Love is a kind of warfare." - OVID, Ars Amatoria

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." - PLATO, Symposium

"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-EXUP, Wind, Sand, and Stars

"If thou remember'st not the slightest folly
That ever love did make thee run into,
Thou hast not loved."
- SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It

"The course of true love never did run smooth." - SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer Night's Dream

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O, no! it is an ever-fix'd mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken."
- SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet XVI

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate."
- SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet XVIII

"All's fair in love and war." - FRANCIS EDWARD SMEDLEY, Frank Fairleigh

"One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." - SOPHOCLES, Oedipus at Colonus

"'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
- ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, In Memoriam

"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion." - MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO, The Tragic Sense of Life

"Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love." - VIRGIL, Eclogues

"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, The Ballad of Reading Gaol