When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.
Malagasy Proverb

Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate!
Sandra J. Dykes

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
Mark Overby

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.

Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.
Theodor Reik, Of Love and Lust

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit
Peter Ustinov

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.
Mignon McLaughlin

The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.
Albert Ellis

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
Michael Leunig

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Boethius

Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.
Henry David Thoreau

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert Heinlein

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Moore