When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.
~Bill Balance

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
~Rose Franken

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
~Ben Hecht

A bell is no bell ’til you ring it,
A song is no song ’til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay –
Love isn’t love
‘Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, “You Are Sixteen (Reprise)” (Thank you, Krystel)

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.
~Swedish Proverb

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
~Henry Van Dyke

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
~Ice T, The Ice Opinion, quoted in Reader’s Digest, “Quotable Quotes,” February 2002

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
~Lord Dewar

When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
~Natalie Clifford Barney

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
~Rabindranath Tagore

Love burns across the infinitude.
~Meriel Stelliger

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
~John Bulwer

‘Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
~Lord Byron

A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown

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