Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor;
after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.
~ Author unknown, as printed in The Hoosier Farmer
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
~ Lynda Barry
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love;
it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
~ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Love doesn't sit there like a stone,
it has to be made, like bread;
remade all of the time, made new.
~ Ursula K. LeGuin
Love is not singular except in syllable.
~ Marvin Taylor
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.
~ John Ciardi
