Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
- John Donne

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
- Benjamin Franklin

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
- Thomas Moore

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
- William Shakespeare

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
- G. K. Chesterton

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
- Benjamin Franklin

Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
- Alexander Pope

Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.
- William Shakespeare

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
- William Blake

The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on.
- Shakespeare

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
- Lamartine

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
- Albert Camus (1913-1960)

It's not the men in my life that count -- it's the life in my men.
- Mae West (1892-1980)

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
- Rita Mae Brown

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
- Judith Viorst

At the touch of Love every one becomes a poet.
- Plato

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.
- Joyce Cary

Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.
- Sean Connery

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
- Jerome K. Jerome

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until maybe you fall in again.
- Judith Viorst