Love is... "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

" - Sophocles "Attention is the most basic form of love; through it we bless and are blessed." - John Tarrant "We love because it's the only true adventure." - Nikki Giovanni "Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." - Dorothy Parker "Love is friendship set on fire." - unknown "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing." - Goethe "To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia." - H.L. Mencken "Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong "Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions." - Isaac Bashevis Singer "Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Maybe love is like luck. You have to go all the way to find it." - Robert Mitchum "Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside." - Margaret Walker "Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature." - Howard Thurman "Love is like war: Easy to begin but hard to end." - Anonymous "Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other." - Rainer Maria Rilke "Where love is, no room is too small." - Talmud "Loves makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." - Zora Neale Hurston "Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Mark Twain "True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart." - Honore de Balzac.

"Love is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day." - Nicholas Sparks "To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." - Karen Sunde "A love song is just a caress set to music." - Sigmund Romberg "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." - Peter Ustinov "Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever." - unknown "Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." - Erich Fromm "In the final analysis, love is the only reflection of man's worth." - Bill Wundram, Iowa Quad Cities Times "Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Elizabeth Browning "Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Roumania." - Dorothy Parker "To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down." - Woody Allen he hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa

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

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder. ~Charles Morgan

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"

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. ~Ovid

Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. ~Frank A. Clark

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~Robert Heinlein OSCAR WILDE Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last romance. ~Oscar Wilde A kiss may ruin a human life. ~Oscar Wilde No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. ~ Oscar Wilde When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. Oscar Wilde The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing ones clean linen in public. ~ Oscar Wilde Who, Oscar Wilde ~ Oscar Wilde Women are Oscar Wilde made to be loved, not understood. being loved, is poor?

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. ~ Oscar Wilde He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. ~ Oscar Wilde Music makes one feel so romantic at least it always gets on ones nerves which is the same thing nowadays. ~ Oscar Wilde Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. ~ Oscar Wilde Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other womens husbands. ~ Oscar Wilde They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

~ Oscar Wilde Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know loves tragedies. ~ Oscar Wilde The mystery ~ Oscar Wilde of love is greater than the mystery of death.

Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding. ~ Oscar Wilde One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, shell tell anything. ~ Oscar Wilde Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each others character before marriage, which is never advisable. ~ Oscar Wilde Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know loves tragedies. ~ Oscar Wilde A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. Oscar Wilde Hatred is blind, as well as love. Oscar Wilde I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. Oscar Wilde Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Oscar Wilde Men always want to be a womans first love women like to be a mans last romance. ~ Oscar Wilde One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. ~Oscar Wilde There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. ~Oscar Wilde

SHAKESPEARE God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts into one. -- John 13:34-35 Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. -- William Shakespeare For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings. -- William Shakespeare I'll follow you and make a heaven out of hell, and I'll die by your hand which I love so well. -- William Shakespeare In thy face I see honor, truth and loyalty. -- William Shakespeare Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare Love goes toward love. -- William Shakespeare ...Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or Bends with the remover to remove. O, no! It is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken. It is the star to every wandering bark, whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. -- William Shakespeare Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. -- William Shakespeare Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet. -- William Shakespeare Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. -- William Shakespeare They do not love that do not show their love. -- William Shakespeare The courses of true love never did run smooth.

-- William Shakespeare A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart. -- William Shakespeare It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. -- William Shakespeare Love is a spirit of all compact of fire. -- William Shakespeare Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare My bounty is as deep as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. -- William Shakespeare My heart is ever at your service. -- William Shakespeare So they lov'd as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distinct, divisions none... -- William Shakespeare One half of me is yours, the other half yoursMine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours! -- William Shakespeare Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. -- William Shakespeare Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare Such is my love, to thee I so belong, That for thy right myself will bear all wrong. -- William Shakespeare When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew. -- William Shakespeare I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew. -- William Shakespeare Journey's end in lovers meeting. -- William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on -- William Shakespeare No sooner met but they looked; No sooner looked but they loved; No sooner loved but they sighed; No sooner signed but they asked one another the reason; No sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; And in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage... -- William Shakespeare, As Your Like It Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar but never doubt thy love. -- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene II

Evergreen Barbara Streisand Love, soft as an easy chair, love, fresh as the morning air. One love that is shared by two, I have found with you. Like a rose under the April snow I was always certain love would grow. Love, ageless and evergreen seldom seen by two. You and I will make each night a first every day a beginning. Spirits rise and their dance is unrehearsed they warm and excite us cause we have the brightest love, two lights that shine as one. Morning glory and the midnight sun. Time, we've learned to sail above, time can't change the meaning of one love ageless and ever, evergreen