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

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

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)

I love thee, I love thee,
'Tis all that I can say;
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.
(Thomas Hood)

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

All love, at first, like generous wine, Ferments and frets until 'tis fine, But, when 'tis settled on the lee, And from th' impurer matter free, Becomes the richer still the older, And Proves the pleasanter the colder.
(Samuel Butler)

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

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

Love is metaphysical gravity.
(R. Buckminster Fuller)

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

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

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)

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 fatethan wisdom.
(E.E. cummings)

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 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)

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

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
(Lynda Barry )

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

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)

A hundred hearts would be too few To carry all my love for you.
(Author Unknown)

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 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)

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 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)

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)

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")

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

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

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)

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)

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, soo 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)

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)

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)

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 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)

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 )

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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