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| Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies. ~ William Shakespeare
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. ~ Immermann Even quarrels with one's husband are preferable to the ennui of a solitary existence. ~ Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte "The Life and Letters of Madame Bonaparte" Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. ~ Dorothy Parker "Inventory" Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. ~ Albert Einstein Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. ~ Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice" How do I love thee? Let me count the way. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnets from the Portuguese" I am as weak as other women are--Your frown can make the whole world like a tomb. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Individuality" I believe love, pure and true, Is to the soul a sweet, immortal dew. ~ Mary Ashley Townsend "Creed" I sometimes think the gods have united human beings by some mysterious principle, like the according notes of music. Or is it as Plato has supposed, that souls originally one have been divided, and each seeks the half it lost? ~ Lydia Maria Child "Philothea: A Romance" If ever two were one, then surely we. ~ Anne Bradstreet "To My Dear and Loving Husband" In short I will part with anything for you but you. ~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu It is strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel. ~ William M. Thackeray Love seeketh not itself to plase, nor for itself hath any case, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. ~ William Blake Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage? ~ Emma Goldman "Anarchism and Other Essays" Marriage is a wonderful thing. But it's relatively new. Twelve, maybe fifteen thousand years old. It brings with it some ancient precivilization elements. Hence, difficult to manage. It's still trying to understand itself. ~ Thornton Wilder "Cement Hands" My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the tree--My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: --a source of little visible delight, but necessary. ~ Emily Bronte "Wuthering Heights" No one worth possessing can be quite possessed. ~ Sara Teasdale No riches from his scanty store My lover could impart; He gave a boon I valued more, He gave me all his heart. ~ Helen Maria Williams "Song" No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her; but many a woman hates a man for being her friend. ~ Alexander Pope Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour! ~ Aphra Behn "The Emporer of the Moon" Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind behold at every turn. ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay "Pity Me Not" The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. ~ Amelia E. Barr "The Belle of Bowling Green" To her the name of father was another name for love. ~ Fanny Fern "Fresh Leaves" What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? ~ George Eliot "Middlemarch" Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ~ Emily Bronte When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction. ~ Ginger Rogers Where love is concerned, too much is not enough. ~ Pierre de Beaumarchais "Marriage of Figaro" You are ice and fire, The touch of you burns my hands like snow. ~ Amy Lowell "Opal" You are my lover and I am your mistress, and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination. ~ Violet Trefuis Your thorns are the best part of you. ~ Marianne Moore "Roses Only" You've got to love life to have life, and you've got to have life to love life�It's what they call a vicious circle. ~ Thornton Wilder "Our Town" Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard. ~ Ann Brasheres I have yet to meet a man who can quench my thirst. I'm looking for a man as strong as I am, stronger than meat, than liquor, a man brave as a frightened mother, with a heart hard as a tooth. The hearts of men are too easily stolen, they are not vigilant in guarding the gates of their ribs and my thieving fingers can always reach beneath the sternum and snatch it. ~ Keith Miller "The Book of Flying" It's not the conversation that intimates what a relationship could become, it's the silences. ~ Chris Mayer Love is a rope stretched between hearts. I walk from one to the other but where I'm happiest is in between. ~ Keith Miller "The Book of Flying" Love is two blind people sword-fighting, love is a queen on a desert island, love is self-immolation, love is running scared in the dark, love is two people each of whose saliva is poison for the other, love is an empty house, a sunken boat, a crippled dancer. ~ Keith Miller "The Book of Flying" lovers alone wear sunlight ~ E.E. Cummings |
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