We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. Somerset Maugham
A kiss, when all is said, what is it? An oath that’s given closer than before; a promise more precise; the sealing of confessions that till then were barley breathed; a rosy dot placed on the i in loving. Edmond Rostand
If your life at night is good, you think you have everything; but, if in that quarter things go wrong, you will consider your best and truest interests most hateful. Euripides
For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness. Terence
Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it. Cervantes
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men. Emerson
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Kahlil Gibran
When once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, the maiden herself will steal after it soon. Thomas Moore
Though a man excel in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jeweled cup which can contain no wine. Yoshida Kenko
A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed. George Jean Nathan
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. Miguel DE Unamuno
Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy, and that is life. Jean Anouilh
Every maiden’s weak and willing when she meets the proper villain. Clarence Day
No one deserves to be called a man whose life is filled only with romance, but neither does he whose life was never touched by it. Theodor Reik
Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well. Charles Bukowski
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it is not. Rochefoucauld
There can be little liking where there is no likeness. Aesop
There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting point for further desires. Marcel Proust
She who trifles with all is less likely to fall than she who but trifles with one. John Gay
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it’s fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter. Bertolt Brecht
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. Antonio Porchia
The old man, especially if he is in society, in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that, through some singular exception of the universal rule, he can in some unknown and inexplicable way still make an impression on a woman. Giacomo Leopardi
The best portion of a good man’s life, are his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. William Wordsworth
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. LA Bruyere
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Rainer Maria Rilke
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. Thornton Wilder
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. Marya Mannes
When the bloom is on the fruit, the charm of novelty is to love; it imparts a luster which is easily effaced and which never returns. Rochefoucauld
Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extent into heaven. Bertrand Russell
Sometimes you know you could almost be a child. Oh must you tell me all your secrets when it's hard enough to love you knowing nothing. Lyrics: Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
Either you have a rival or you don’t. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don’t you must still please in order to avoid having one. Pierre Choderlos DE Laclos
No man may be so cursed by priest or pope; but what the eternal love may still return, while any thread of green lives on in hope. Dante
Woman was taken out of man, not out of his head, to rule over him; nor out of his feet, to be trampled under by him; but out of his side, to be equal to him, under his arm, that he might protect her, and near his heart that he might love her. Matthew Henry
If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world. Saint Exupery
The heart has its reasons which reason does not know. Pascal
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. Isak Dinesen
We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgement. Lillian Carter
Base men being in love have then nobility in their natures more than is native to them. Shakespeare
Men may be allowed romanticism; woman, who can create life in their own bodies, dare not indulge in it. Phyllis Mcginley
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. Erich Fromm
When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome. Jean Giraudoux
Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear. Rochefoucauld
Love is simple to understand if you haven't got a mind soft and full of holes. It’s a crutch, that’s all, and there isn’t a one of us doesn't need a crutch. Norman Mailer
If one is sure of a woman’s love one asks one’s self if she is more or less beautiful; if one is in doubt as to her feelings one has no time to think of her appearance. Stendhal
It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme. Saint Exupery
Better be courted and jilted; than never be courted at all. Thomas Campbell
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love. Igor Stravinsky
