~ Love Quotes ~
LOVE IS... UNREASONABLE
'Paolo and Francesca da Rimini,' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (detail)
"Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time.  There are too many mediocre things in life, and love should not be one of them."
-Anonymous

"The heart has its reasons which reason does not understand."
-Blaise Pascal

"Reason and love are sworn enemies."
-Pierre Corneille

"People who are sensible about love are incapable of it."
-Douglas Yates

"Women were created to drive men crazy.  Whether it's crazy in a good way, or a bad way, is the question."
-"Les Vierges"

"Whoso loves believes the impossible..."
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Economized love is never real love."
-Balzac

"Love, to the outside observer, is often mistaken for lunacy."
-"Les Vierges"

"Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important."
-Lisa Hoffman

"This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us."
-Goethe

“If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.”
-La Rochefoucauld

“Economized love is never real love.”
-Balzac

“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. “
-Tom Robbins (Still Life with Woodpecker)

“And all for love, and nothing for reward.”
-Edmund Spenser

“I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.”
-John Donne

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