Quotations Of Love

"It is something - it can be everything - to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below." - Wallace Stegner (On finding a love one, The Spectator Bird Doubleday)

"I would like to have engraved inside every wedding band Be kind to one another. This is the Golden Rule of marriage and the secret of making love last through the years." - Randolph Ray (My Little Church around the Corner Simon & Schuster 57)

"Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality . . . the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else." - Jose Ortega y Gasset (McCall's Feb 82)

"Love lives in sealed bottles of regret." - Sean O' Faolain ("The Jungle of Love" Saturday Evening Post 13 Aug 66)

"Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate. - Joyce Carol Oates (On Boxing Doubleday 87, quoted in NY Times 15 Mar 87)

"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears." - Woodrow Wyatt ("To the Point" London Sunday Times 22 Mar 81)

"Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do - fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible." - Richard J. Needham (The Garden of Needham, Macmillan 68)

"There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder." - Charles Morgan (Recalled on his death 6 Feb 58)

"Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible." - W Stanley Mooneyham (Come Walk the World Word Books 78, quoted in Reader's Digest Oct 84)

"Love cures people, the ones who receive love and the ones who give it, too." - Karl A. Menninger (Sparks Crowell 73)

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." - Mignon McLaughlin (Atlantic Jul 65)

"All weddings. except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful." - Liz Smith (NY Daily News 13 Apr 86)

"The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great." - Liz Smith (On a Hollywood relationship, NBC TV 13 Nov 85)

"That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment." - Richard Schickel (Time 28 Nov 83)

"Affairs, like revolutions, should only have beginnings." - Howard Sackler (From his 1980 play Good-bye Fidel)

"Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it." - Ned Rorem (The Paris Diary of Ned Rorem Braziller 76)

"When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street." - Jessica Tandy (On her husband Hume Cronyn, Kennedy Center Honors CBS TV 26 Dec 86)