Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power. Ovid
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. Voltaire
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same. Voltaire
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one’s ownself. Fromm, Erich
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. Ciardi, John
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny. Crisp, Quentin
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. Russell, Bertrand
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. Shakespeare, William
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love. Scott, Sir Walter
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them. Euripides
