Quotes About Love

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

The three horrors of modern life — talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.

What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6º of marriage!

Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.

A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.

We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.

Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.

The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.

The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.