Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
   
    Rita Rudner
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
   
    Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.
   
    Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: Blue Noon, 2005
We don't always get to choose what we love.
   
    Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
   
    Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.
   
    Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
   
    Toni Morrison (1931 - ), Beloved
Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.
   
    Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Chef Aid, 1998
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
   
    Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
   
    W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
   
    W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
   
    W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.
   
    W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
   
    William Penn (1644 - 1718)
But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.
   
    William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.
   
    William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet cxvi
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
   
    William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "All's Well That Ends Well", Act 1 Scene 1