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The Love which moves the sun and the other stars.
Dante Alighieri1265–1321The Divine Comedy (c. 1320), Paradiso, Canto XXXIIIIn context
- God
Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in my bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.
Woody Allenborn 1935Standup Comic (1999)
- Comedy
- Marriage
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Woody Allenborn 1935A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (1982).
- Sex
To me a relationship is about loving another human being; their gender is irrelevant.
Gillian Andersonborn 1968The Telegraph “Gillian Anderson: It’s time somebody was brave enough to ask me out” (March 24, 2015)
As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.
Julie Andrewsborn 1935The New York Times (14 March 1982)
- Age
- Marriage
If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
Maya Angelou1928–2014“Touched by an Angel”, Shaker, Why Don’t You Sing? (1983)
- Fear
The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.
Jennifer Anistonborn 1969Oprah Magazine (2004)
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Thomas Aquinas1225–1274
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle384–322 BCThe Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
Aristotle384–322 BCPolitics, Book VII, 1335a.27
- Marriage
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another!
Matthew Arnold1822–1888Dover Beach (1867), st. 4In context
I don’t make love by kissing, I make love by dancing.
Fred Astaire1899–1987Said to Henry Ephron; quoted in Henry Ephron, We Thought We Could Do Anything (1977)
- Dancing
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
W. H. Auden1907–1973Homage to Clio (1960), “First Things First”, st. 5
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden1907–1973The Dyer’s Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
- Laughter
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
W. H. Auden1907–1973The Dyer’s Hand, and Other Essays (1962), “Hic et Ille”
- Friendship