Love is being stupid together.
-- Paul Valery
Love is being stupid together.
-- Paul Valery
Love -- the last of the serious diseases of childhood.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three
parts dead.
-- Bertrand Russell
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out candles and fans fires.
-- La Rochefoucauld
Every kind action has a not-so-kind reaction
-- Murphy's Love Laws n°8
I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme
foolishness. I no longer thought that. There's nothing foolish in
loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.
-- Rita Mae Brown
“I'd love to go out with you, but my favorite commercial is on TV.”
“I'd love to go out with you, but the last time I went out, I never came back.”
Brains x Beauty x Availability = Constant
-- Murphy's Love Laws n°4
“I'll tell you what I know, then," he decided. ”The pin I'm wearing
means I'm a member of the IA. That's Inamorati Anonymous. An inamorato is
somebody in love. That's the worst addiction of all."
"Somebody is about to fall in love," Oedipa said, "you go sit with
them, or something?"
"Right. The whole idea is to get where you don't need it. I was
lucky. I kicked it young. But there are sixty-year-old men, believe it or
not, and women even older, who might wake up in the night screaming."
"You hold meetings, then, like the AA?"
"No, of course not. You get a phone number, an answering service
you can call. Nobody knows anybody else's name; just the number in case
it gets so bad you can't handle it alone. We're isolates, Arnold. Meetings
would destroy the whole point of it."
-- Thomas Pynchon, "The Crying of Lot 49"
The magic of our first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it some day, but it has one
arch-enemy -- and that is life.
-- Jean Anouilh, "Ardele"
Money can't buy love, but it sure gets you a great bargaining position
-- Murphy's Love Laws n°6
How much does she love you? Less than you'll ever know.
The person you rejected yesterday could make you happy, if you say yes.
Don't despair; your ideal lover is waiting for you around the corner.
If the person isn't taken, there's a reason
-- Murphy's Love Laws n°2
Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
-- Jerome K. Jerome
Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
-- Charles Bukowski
I love you more than anything in this world. I don't expect that will last.
-- Elvis Costello
His heart was yours from the first moment that you met.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Nice guys (girls) finish last
-- Murphy's Love Laws n°9
A woman was in love with fourteen soldiers. It was clearly platoonic.
All the good ones are taken
-- Murphy's Love Laws n°1
Love is dope, not chicken soup. I mean, love is something to be passed
around freely, not spooned down someone's throat for their own good by a
Jewish mother who cooked it all by herself.
In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to
be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's
beloved.
-- Russell Baker
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage -- he won't
encounter many rivals.
-- Georg Lichtenberg, "Aphorisms"
God is love, but get it in writing.
-- Gypsy Rose Lee
I can mend the break of day, heal a broken heart, and provide temporary
relief to nymphomaniacs.
-- Larry Lee