"Love is my religion--I could die for it."
--John Keats
"Love is when two people who care for each other get confused."
--Bob Schneider (attributed)
"Love is sweet, but tastes better with bread".
--Yiddish Proverb.
"One fool at least in every marriage".
--Henry Fielding Amelia
"I am two fools, I know, For loving, and saying so In whining poetry."
--John Donne, "The Triple Fool"
"To be intimate with a foolish man is like going to bed with a razor."
--Benjamin Franklin
"Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you".
--Joey Adams
"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
--Mae West, in the film My Little Chickadee
"Whatever else can be said about sex it cannot be called a dignified performance"
--Helen Lawrenson
"Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship--never."
--C. C. Colton Lacon
"Friendship is constant in all other things Except in the office and affairs of love."
- -William Shakespeare
"Love and friendship exclude one another"
--Jean de La Bruy�re
Les caract�res
"A friend married is a friend lost."
--Henrik Ibsen
Love's Comedy
"No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is ultimately doomed and that's the end of the story."
--Nora Ephron
When Harry Met Sally
"Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly tree. The holly is dark when the
rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly?"
--Emily Bront�
Love and Friendship
"When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the
affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in bog."
--Miles Franklin
My Career Goes Bung
"Friendship is a disinterested
commerce between equals; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."
--Oliver Goldsmith
The Good-Natured Man
"Wife and servant are the same, But only differ in the name; And when that fatal knot is tied, Which nothing, nothing can divide; When she the word obey has said, And man by law supreme was made, Then all that's kind is laid aside, And nothing left but state and pride."
--Lady Mary Chudleigh, "To the Ladies"
"Wife: One who knows everything except why she married you."
--Anonymous
"Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates."
--Ned Roren
"Love is the answer, but while
you're waiting for the answer sex
raises some pretty good
questions."
--Woody Allen
"Nothing spoils a romance so
much as a sense of humour in a
woman."
--Oscar Wilde
A Woman of No Importance
"The concept of romantic love
affords a means of emotional
manipulation which the male is
free to exploit, since love is the
only circumstance in which the
female is (ideologically)
pardoned for sexual activity."
--Kate Millet
Sexual Politics
"Love and sex can go together
and sex and unlove can go
together and love and unsex can
go together. But personal love
and personal sex is bad."
--Andy Warhol
From A to B and Back Again
"Considering the two of you
are just alike,
the worst wife and
the worst husband,
I find it quite remarkable
You aren't compatible."
--Martial
Select Epigrams of Martial
translated and adapted by
Donald C. Goertz
"Those who are faithless know
the pleasures of love; it is those
who are faithful who know love's
tragedies."
--Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
"People marry for a variety of
other reasons and with varying
results; but to marry for love is
to invite inevitable tragedy."
--James Branch Cabell
The Cream of the Jest
"One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should
not marry."
--Oscar Wilde
A Woman of No Importance
"On the whole, I haven't found
men unduly loath to say, "I love
you." The real trick is to get
them to say, "Will you marry
me?"
--Ilka Chase
This Week, February 5, 1956
"Love is often the fruit of
marriage."
--Moli�re
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage
is a real thing; a confusion of the
real with the ideal never goes
unpunished."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Love is so much better when
you are not married."
--Maria Callas (attributed)
"Sex is a body-contact sport. It is
safe to watch but more fun to
play."
--Thomas Szasz
Sex By Prescription
"Once a woman has forgiven her
man, she must not reheat his
sins for breakfast."
--Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich's ABC
"There can be no great love
without great pain"
--Anonymous
"I don't think there are any men
who are faithful to their wives."
--Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
(attributed)