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Woody Allen
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Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
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Francis Bacon
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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Julian Barnes
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Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.
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Phyllis Battelle
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A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you
see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying
"Long Time, No See."
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Pierre-Augustin De Beaumarchais
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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
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Aphra Behn
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Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret
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Jorge Luis Borge
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Elizabeth Bowen
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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
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Robert Browning
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Take away love, and our life is a tomb.
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Lord Byron
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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence.
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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she
loves is love.
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Sabastien Chamfort
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Love, such as in society, is only the exchange of two fantasies, and the
contact of two bodies.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Confucius
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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
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Joan Davie
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In the race for love, I was scratched.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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Maureen Duffy
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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All mankind love a lover.
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Euripedes
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Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
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Linda Festa
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The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is
that one of them must be good at taking orders.
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Matt Groening
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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns
on you with a miniature machine gun.
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Ursula Le Guin
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Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread,
remade all the time, made new.
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Helen Hayes
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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story
of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of
love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
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Victor Hugo
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The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved
for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves,
though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
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Beverly Jones
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Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never
attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps
us running and thinking in safe circles.
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Curtis Judalet
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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody
seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost
in it, and amoung all, never...never forget it.
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Francis De La Rochefoucauld
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True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
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If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred
than friendship.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists or simulate
it where it does not.
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Katherine Mansfield
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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms
from toadstools.
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Joyce Carol Oates
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In oove there are two things - bodies and words.
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Mark Overby
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Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw
blood in its defense.
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Dorothy Parker
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays.
Clutch is, and it darts away.
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Pascal
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The heart has its reasons that reason does not know.
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Plato
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The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things
the wrong way.
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Theodore Roethke
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Love is not love until love's vunerable.
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Bertrand Russell
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I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance
I thought, "Good God, what have I said?" and then I knew it was true.
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George Sand
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There is only one happiness in life - to love and to be loved.
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Segur
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Love is like the moon, when it does not increase, it decreases.
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William Shakespeare
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They do not love that do not show their love.
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The course of true love never did run smooth.
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Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
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Merle Shan
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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear
to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy
from life.
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Percy Shelley
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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Anna Strong
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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human
loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a
comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one
desires to be.
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Frank Tebbets
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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth,
with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
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Vincent Van Gogh
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The more I think about it,the more I realize there is nothing more artistic
that to love others.
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Voltaire
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Oscar Wilde
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue
to love her.
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When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself. And one ends by deceiving
others. This is what the world calls a romance.
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Thorton Wilder
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Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the
child that lost a dog yesterday.
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Unknown
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No one in love is free, or wants to be.
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The heart that loves is always young.
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He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her.
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The cat and the love you give away always come back to you.
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A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like a child who sings at night
when he is afraid.
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The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never
letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance.
Women Quotation
Dave Barry
If a woman has
to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she
will choose to
save the infant's
life without even considering there are men on base.
Jeffery Bernard
Why haven't
women got labels on their foreheads saying, "Danger: Government Health
Warning:
Women can be
dangerous to your brains, genitals, current account, confidence, razor
blades and
good standing
among your friends."
Dion Boucicault
I wish Adam
had died with all ribs in his body.
George Eliot
The happiest
women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
Euripedes
There is no
evil as terrible as a woman.
Edith Evans
When a woman
behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
Thomas Fuller
A woman, a dog
and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be.
Samuel Johnson
Nature has given
women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
D.H. Lawrence
If a woman hasn't
got a timy streak of harlot in her, she is a dry stick as a rule.
Abe Lincoln
A woman is the
only thing that I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Marya Mannes
Women are repeatedly
accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way
of
taking things.
H.L. Mencken
On one issue
at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
Women have simple
tastes. They can get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms
and
men in love.
Ogden Nash
Women would
rather be right than reasonable.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
There are two
types of women: those who want power in the world, and those who want power
in
the bedroom.
Pablo Picasso
There are only
two types of women -- goddesses and doormats.
Nancy Reagan
A woman is like
a teabag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Steve Bubinstein
Women speak
two languages -- one of which is verbal.
William Shakespeare
Two women placed
together makes cold weather.
Frailty, thy
name is woman.
Carrie Snow
It is silly
for a woman to go to a male gynecologist. It is like going to an auto mechanic
who has
never even owned
his own car.
James Stephens
Women are wiser
than men because they know less and understand more.
James Thurber
I hate women
because they always know where things are.
Voltaire
A woman can
keep one secret -- the secret of her age.
Rebecca West
I myself have
never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that
people call me
a feminist whenever
I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
Oscar Wilde
Women have a
wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the
obvious.
Woman begins
by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.
Shelley Winters
I am the modern,
intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not
get a man.
Unknown
Never trust
something that bleeds for a week and does not die.
Women always
worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things
women
remember.
Her husband
wishes she were his mother, so he could run away from home.