All love that has not friendship for its base,
is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004

Love is everything it's cracked up to be…
It really is worth fighting for,
being brave for,
risking everything for.
Erica Jong, O Magazine, February 2004

When love is in excess it brings a man
no honor nor worthiness.
Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Medea, 431 B.C.

There is always some madness in love.
But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "On Reading and Writing"

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing
in the fact that another person lives, acts,
and experiences otherwise than we do…?
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)


There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, July 25, 1839

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004

Passion makes the world go round.
Love just makes it a safer place.
Ice T, The Ice Opinion

Love is the difficult realization
that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)

We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999), O Magazine, February 2004

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005

Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey

I cannot think well of a man who sports
with any woman's feelings; and there may
often be a great deal more suffered
than a stander-by can judge of.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park

I pay very little regard...
to what any young person says on the subject of marriage.
If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park

The enthusiasm of a woman's love
is even beyond the biographer's.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park

Great post

"Love me without fear / Trust me without questioning / Need me without demanding / Want me without restrictions / Accept me without change / Desire me without inhibitions." - **** Sutphen


"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." -George Sands

A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.

--Mason Cooley

Thank you all for your sweet posts...

BerryBoo... thank you

good ones!...Heart/soul...

Spidercmb... honored as always...
that's very cute and so wise , like you...


with a rosy blush and a deep curtsy ..

"that's very cute and so wise , like you..."

Cute and wise...you have me confused for someone else, but I'm flattered regardless.

I don't have you confused with anyone else...

{{{{{<<<<<SpiderCmbJohnny>>>>>}}}}}

You are just very humble & modest
& a refreshing breath of clean air...

Those virtues just add to your charm...

You stand up for the Holy Scriptures that regard highly...
I admire you and respect you for standing up for what you believe in . You are very dear to me...God Bless You always