In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

19.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

20.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

21.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

22.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

23.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

24.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

25.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

26.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

28.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

30.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

31.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

32.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

33.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

34.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

35.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

37.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

38.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

39.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

40.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

41.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

42.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

43.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

44.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

45.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

46.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

47.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

48.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

49.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

50.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt