Quotations Of Love

"I talk marriage; they talk weddings!" - Robert Farrar Capon (On counseling engaged couples, Bed and Board: Plain Talk about Marriage) Simon & Schuster 65

"It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist." - Muriel Spark (New Yorker 10 Jul 65)

"Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." - Carl Jung (Recalled on his death 6 Jun 61)

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." - Erich Fromm (The Art of Loving Harper 56, recalled on his death 18 Mar 80)

"I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again." - Noel Coward (Theatre Arts Nov 56)

"An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: The older she gets, the more interested he is in her." - Agatha Christie (News summaries 9 Mar 54)

"The crime of love is forgetting." - Maurice Chevalier (Look 28 May 68)

"Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it." - Maurice Chevalier (News summaries 17 Jul 55)

"Believing that a girl will wait is just like jumping with a parachute packed by someone else." - Nikolai Chepik (From diary of Soviet farm boy who died in action in Afghanistan, quoted by Seth Mydans NY Times 16 Jun 85)

"On the whole, I haven't found men unduly loath to say, "I love you." The real trick is to get them to say, "Will you marry me?" - Ilka Chase (This Week 5 Feb 56)

"So often when we say "I love you" we say it with a huge "I" and a small "you"." - Antony, Russian Orthodox Archbishop of England (Beginning to Pray Paulist Press 70)

"There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. [It is] when they are in love and reading a love letter." Mortimer Adler, Quoted on 26 Dec 61

"A lady of 47 who has been married 27 years and has 6 children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: "Love is what you've been through with somebody." - James Thurber ( Life ) 14 Mar 60

"The first duty of love is to listen." - Paul Tillich (recalled on his death 22 Oct 65)

"In my sunday school class there was a beautiful little girl with golden curls. I was smitten at once and still am." - Harry S Truman, 33rd US President (On his wife Bess, news summaries 31 Dec 52)

"One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in again." - Judith Viorst "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Redbook, Feb 75)

"When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction." - Ginger Rogers (Quoted by Dotson Rader""I Don't Want to Live without Love"") Parade 8 Mar 87

"Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. Falling in love is not." - ib

"Falling in love is not an extension of one's limitations or boundaries; it is partial and temporary collapse of them. - M Scott Peck (The Road Less Travelled) Simon & Schuster 78

"Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality." - Theodor Reik (Recalled on his death 31 Dec 69)

"Cupid's dart had hit both targets and set the Nile on fire. And the Tiber. Even the Thames sizzled a bit." - Emlyn Williams (On 1963 romance of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor while filming Cleopatra in Egpyt, recalled on Burton's death.) People 17 Sep 84

"I never married. Nobody ever asked me." - Mattie White (On her 100th birthday) Newsweek 4 Jul 76

"It is not love, but lack of love, which is blind." - Glenway Wescott (NY Herald Tribune 19 Dec 65)

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." by David Viscott (How to Live with Another Person Arbo) Arbor House 74