Love Is…

Life is the flower of which love is the honey.

–Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr

Love is friendship set to music

–Pollock

Love is like quicksilver in the hand.

Leave the fingers open and it stays.

Clutch it, and it darts away.

–Dorothy Parker

Love is the only kind of fire which is never covered by insurance.

–Author Unknown

Love is a state of mind which has nothing to do with the mind.

–Bob Phillips

Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

–Franklin P. Jones

Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.

–Cathy Carlyle

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

–Thomas Carlyle

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

–Ben Hecht

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

–Fulton J. Sheen

Love is the history of a woman’s life; it is an episode in man’s.

–Germaine De Stael

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

–H.L.Mencken

Love is anterior to life,

Posterior to death,

Initial of creation, and

The exponent of breath.

–Emily Dickinson

What is love? It is the morning

and the evening star.

–Sinclair Lewis

Love is like a hunter, who cares

not for the game when once caught,

which he may have pursued with the most

intense and breathless eagerness.

Love is strongest in pursuit;

friendship in possession.

–Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is a wild bird that no one can tame

It’s useless to chase it

If it won’t play the game

–From the opera Carmen

Love, then, hath every bliss in store;

‘Tis friendship, and ’tis something more.

Each other every wish they give;

Not to know love is not to live.

–John Gay

But true love is a durable fire,

In the mind ever burning,

Never sick, never old, never dead,

From itself never turning.

–Sir Walter Raleigh

Now what is Love, I pray thee, tell?

It is that fountain and that well

Where pleasure and repentance dwell;

It is perhaps the sauncing bell

That tolls all into heaven or hell:

And this is Love, as I hear tell.

–Sir Walter Raleigh

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