Various Thoughts On Love

Various Thoughts On Love -

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and

persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual

affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment,

it will not be created for years or even generations.

Khalil Gibran

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it,

but few have seen it.

- Francois de La Rouchefoucauld

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss,

and ends with a teardrop.

Success is nothing, without someone you love to share it with.

- Billy Dee Williams in the movie, Mahogany

Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who

receive it.

- Dr. Karl Menninger

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking

outward together in the same direction.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or

burn down your house, you can never tell.

- Joan Crawford

Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer,

sex raises some pretty good questions.

- Woody Allen

Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty

experiences go, it's one of the best.

- Woody Allen (again)

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing;

a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent

protects you from age.

- Jeanne Moreau

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is

worth a pound of knowledge.

- John Wesley

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

- David Chambless

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."

Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."

- Erich Fromm

Absence is to love what wind is to fire;

it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

- Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life

to be thankful for a good one.

- Mae West (1892-1980)

A man in love is incomplete until he is married.

Then he's finished.

- Zsa Zsa Gabor

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything,

and two minus one equals nothing.

- Mignon McLaughlin

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life;

love harmonizes it.

Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry.

That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.

- David Bissonette

There is only one kind of love,

but there are a thousand imitations.

- Francois de La Rouchefoucauld

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup,

whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

- Ogden Nash

The course of true love never did run smooth.

- William Shakespeare

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

- Henny Youngman

Where there is marriage without love,

there will be love without marriage.

Men always want to be a woman's first love,

women like to be a man's last romance.

- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Never frown because you never know who might be falling in love

with your smile.

- Justine Milton

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough,

before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

- Cesare Pavese

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

- Josh Billings

No matter how lovesick a woman is,

she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

- Joyce Brothers

And finally. . .

On Valentine's Day give The Best Valentine's gift

Give two red roses, each with a note.

The first note says, "For the one I love"

and the second,

"For my best friend."