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If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
Christopher Morley1890–1957
A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II (1770) p. 182
- Marriage
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost1874–1963
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957)
- Friendship
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
- Marriage
I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who’ve had luck with it and those who haven’t.
Bill Cosbyborn 1937
The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
Bill Cosbyborn 1937
- Marriage
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
- Morality
It’s strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965
No human relation gives one possession in another…every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship and in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931
- Friendship
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Woody Allenborn 1935A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (1982).
- Sex
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
Love is the idler’s occupation, the warrior’s relaxation, and the soverign’s ruination.
Napoleon1769–1821