To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anaesthesia.
~H(enry). L(ouis). Mencken (1880-1956)

LOVE: A grave mental illness. ~Plato

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
~H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. ~Lord Byron

My heart is singing like a bird
Whose nest is in a watered shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.

Raise me a dais of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
~Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory --
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the beloved's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

The giving of love is an education in itself.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Love is not measured by how many times you touch each other but by how many times you reach each other.
~Cathy Moraney

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~Plato

In the eyes of a lover, pockmarks are dimples.
~Japanese proverb

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. ~Theophile Gautier

Great hate follows great love. ~Irish proverb

It's easy to halve a potato where there's love. ~Irish proverb Huh?

The only folks who give us pain are those we love the best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ~Alexander Smith

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
~W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

Love does not recognise the difference between peasant and mikado. ~Japanese proverb

When you really want love you will find it waiting for you. ~Oscar Wilde

Amantium irae amoris integra tio est
Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love.
~Terence (190?-159? B.C.)

Omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori
Love conquers all, and we too succumb to love.
~Virgil (70-19 B.C.)

Je t'aime plus qu'hier, moins que demain.
I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.
~Edmond Rostand, Les Musardises

Amor timere neminem verus potest.
True love has no fear for anyone.
~Seneca, Medea

D' esta altura vejo o Amor!
Viver não foi em vão se é isto a vida,
Nem foi de mais o desenganome a dôr.
I can see love from this height. If this is life, then living -- with all its hurt and disillusion -- was not in vain.
~Anthero de Quental, Solemnia Verba

Gde net lyubvi, tam net veselĭi.
Where love is not, there can be no pleasures.
~Russian proverb

En la dueña pequeña yaze muy grand amor.
In a little woman great love can grow.
~Juan Ruiz, De las Propiedades que las Dueñas Chicas han.

Love me when I deserve it the least, because that is when I will need it the most.
~Anonymous

As rare as true love is, it is not as rare as true friendship. ~François, Duc de la Rochefoucauld.
Per raro che sia vero amore, è meno raro della vera amicizia. (Italian)
Wahre Liebe ist zwar selten, aber doch nicht so selten wie wahre Freundschaft. (German)
Por raro que sea el verdadero amor, es menos raro que la verdadera amistad. (Spanish)
Por muito raro que seja o verdadeiro amor, não o é tanto como a verdadeira amizade. (Portugese)

Let us rejoice in our love as long as we live. ~S. Properzio
Gioiamo dell'amore nostro finché possiamo. (Italian)
Jouissons de notre amour rant que nous le pouvons. (French)
Genießen wir unsere Liebe, solange es geht. (German)
Disfrutemas de nuestro amor mientras podamos. (Spanish)
Gozemas do nosso amor até quando pudermos. (Portugese)

Love speaks even through sealed lips. ~Afef
L'amore parla anche a labbra chiuse. (Italian)
L'amour parle aussi lèvres closes. (French)
Liebe spricht auch mit geschlossenen Lippen. (German)
El amor habla incluso con la boca cerrada. (Spanish)
O amor fala também com os lábios fechados. (Portugese)

Time can never destroy what affection has built. ~Anonymous
Il tempo non potrà mai distruggere ciò che l'affetto ha costruito. (Italian)
Le temps ne pourra jamais détruire ce que l'affection a construit. (French)
Die Zeit kann niemals das zerstören, was die Zuneigung aufgebaut hat. (German)
El tiempo nunca podrá destruir lo que el cariño ha construido. (Spanish)
O tempo jamais poderá destruir aquilo que o carinho construiu. (Portugese)