LOTS OF LOVE: Favourite quotes about that loving feeling
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
Henry Ward Beecher, preacher
"First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the malady a second time."
Honoré de Balzac, novelist
"Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other."
W Somerset Maugham, writer
"True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked."
Erich Segal, author and screenwriter
"In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind."
Nora Ephron, screenwriter and director
"Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand."
Anonymous
"It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with."
Clark Gable, actor
"I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste."
David Bissonette, writer
"Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle."
Sam Levenson, humourist
"The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started?"
Billy Connolly, actor
"Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache."
Mae West, actor
"When you're in love with someone you want to be near him all the time, except when you're out buying things and charging them to him."
Miss Piggy, Muppet
"Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Connors. Love is when you realise that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway."
Judith Viorst, author and journalist
"Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl."
Stephen Leacock, economist and humourist
"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."
Woody Allen, director and writer
"If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?"
Anonymous
"Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull."
HL Mencken, journalist and satirist
"There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters."
Anna Haycraft (aka Alice Thomas Ellis), writer
"Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
Neil Gaiman, writer
"If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them."
Christopher Morley, writer and poet
"Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends."
Anonymous
"I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up."
Barbara Bush, former first lady
"How do you know that love is gone? If you said you would be there at seven and you get there at nine, and he or she has not called the police - it's gone."
Marlene Dietrich, actor and singer
"Be unselfish in your love. Remember, you are not the cat."
Bill Zimmerman, journalist and editor
"We don't believe in rheumatism or true love until after the first attack."
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, writer
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