Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. – Karl Menninger
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life. – Cher
Love is staying up all night with a sick child — or a healthy adult. – David Frost
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. – John Ciardi
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. – Douglas Yates
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. – William Shakespeare, “Sonnet CXVI”
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. – Marguerite de Valois
Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
It would be impossible to “love” anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object. – Paul Valéry, Tel quel, 1943
An old man in love is like a flower in winter. – Portuguese Proverb
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. – Honoré de Balzac
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house. – Author Unknown
Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby. – Paul-Jean Toulet
We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. – François VI de la Rochefoucault
No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. – Latin Proverb
Be everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way. – Amrit Desai
A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be. – Nicholas de Chamfort
