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Most men who run down women are only running down a certain woman. -- Isaac Goldberg
Women in love pardon great indiscretions more easily than little infedelities. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
My first wife divorce me on the grounds of incompatibilitym and besides, I think she hated me. -- Oscar Levant
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish but that they cease to love. -- Somerset Maugham
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin
The bride cries before the wedding, the man afterwards. -- Polish proverb.
It is difficult to tell which gives some couples the most happiness, the minister who marries them or the judge who divorces them. -- Mary Wilson Little
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting, -- Moliere
Absence in love is like water upon fire;
a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
-- Hannah More
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
-- Leo Buscaglia
Bet you wonder how I knew about your plan to make me blue
with some other guy that you knew before. Between both guys
you know I love you more. It took me by surprise, I must say,
when I found out yesterday. Don't you know I heard it through
the grapevine. How much longer would you be mine? I heard it
through the grapevine. Now I'm just about to lose my mind.
-- Marvin Gaye
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is
almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor
Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for hime. -- Racine
O! love is like the rose,
And a month it may not see,
Ere it withers where it grows.
-- Bailey
"Even the most boundless love can end."
-- Rhett Butler, to Scarlet O'Hara, in Gone With The Wind
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
-- Elbert Hubbard
Had we never loved sae kindly
Had we never loved sae blindly
Never met, or never parted
We had ne'er been broken-hearted
--
Robert Burns
Oh, when I was in love with you,
Then I was clean and brave,
And miles around the wonder grew
How well did I behave.
And now the fancy passes by,
And nothing will remain,
And miles around they'll say that I
Am quite myself again.
-A. E. Housman
But once love's betrayed,
It's sweet life blooms no more!
-- T. Moore
Each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word.
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man does with a sword!
-- Oscar Wilde
Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.
-- Kahlil Gibran
Can one ever remember love? It's like trying to summon the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. -- Arthur Miller
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