When love is not madness, it is not love.  ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939


Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.  ~Albert Einstein


For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard


Love is a symbol of eternity.  It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.  ~Author Unknown


Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.  ~Author Unknown


Trip over love, you can get up.  Fall in love and you fall forever.  ~Author Unknown


Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595


Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.  ~Proverb


Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's Saint Valentine's.
For that good bishop's sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.
~Michael Drayton


The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.  ~Theodor Reik, Of Love and Lust, 1957


You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.  ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"


We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.  ~Author Unknown


Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.  ~William Shakespeare


kisses are a better fate
than wisdom.
~e.e. cummings


If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?  ~Author Unknown


Who, being loved, is poor?  ~Oscar Wilde


Without love, what are we worth?  Eighty-nine cents!  Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.  ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye


The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it.  You and you alone make me feel that I am alive.  Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.  ~George Moore


We loved with a love that was more than love.  ~Edgar Allan Poe


Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.  ~Ben Hecht


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 eternity.  ~Henry Van Dyke


Are we not like two volumes of one book?  ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore


A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"


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, Redbook, 1975


When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.  ~Natalie Clifford Barney


Take away love and our earth is a tomb.  ~Robert Browning


He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.  ~Leo Tolstoy


Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.  ~Zora Neale Hurston


Love is a game that two can play and both win.  ~Eva Gabor


Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house.  ~Author Unknown


We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.  ~Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach, Aphorism


Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.  ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651


Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved.  ~Christopher Paul Rubero


The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.  ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670


At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.  ~Plato


True love stories never have endings.  ~Richard Bach


The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.  ~Margaret Atwood


Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.  ~Zelda Fitzgerald


Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.  ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949


Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.  ~Kay Knudsen


Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.  ~Percy Bysshe Shelley


Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.  ~Peter Ustinov


Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.  ~Author Unknown


Sometimes we make love with our eyes.  Sometimes we make love with our hands.  Sometimes we make love with our bodies.  Always we make love with our hearts.  ~Author Unknown


You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well.  ~Author Unknown


Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.  ~Oprah Winfrey


Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart.  ~Author Unknown


Love one another and you will be happy.  It's as simple and as difficult as that.  ~Michael Leunig


Who would give a law to lovers?  Love is unto itself a higher law.  ~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524


A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.  ~Frank A. Clark


Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.  ~Rose Franken


Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.  ~Swedish Proverb


It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.  ~John Bulwer


Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.  ~Hoosier Farmer


Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.  ~Lynda Barry


Love is not singular except in syllable.  ~Marvin Taylor


They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and no moon above.  ~From a song


Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.  ~Robert Frost


Love is the poetry of the senses.  ~Honoré de Balzac


True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights.  If you hear bells, get your ears checked.  ~Erich Segal


Love is what you've been through with somebody.  ~James Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960


Love is being stupid together.  ~Paul Valery


For twas not into my ear you whispered
But into my heart
Twas not my lips you kissed
But my soul
~Judy Garland


Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love.  I'd stepped in it a few times.  ~Rita Rudner


As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.  ~William Shakespeare


Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.  ~Attributed to Greg, age 8


Love is the greatest refreshment in life.  ~Pablo Picasso


Love means nothing in tennis, but it's everything in life.  ~Author Unknown


What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.  ~Pearl Bailey


Falling in love is so hard on the knees.  ~Aerosmith


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


Love wouldn't be blind if the Braille weren't so damned much fun.  ~Author Unknown


Love is metaphysical gravity.  ~R. Buckminster Fuller


If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.  ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi