More thoughts on what love is
Jan. 22nd, 2003 12:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmolinguist"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; It extinguishes the small, yet enkindles the great."
--Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
"To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another."
--Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz [hey, isn't this the guy who invented calculus?...well, if you think that Isaac Newton didn't...unless you think they both came up with it separately, or whatever]
"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists."
--Anita Brookner
"I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
in Whining poetry."
--John Donne
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
--George Bernard Shaw
"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
--Rita Rudner
"Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times."
--Rita Rudner
"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known."
--Walt Disney
"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."
--Anna Louise Strong
"The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep."
--Alan Patrick Herbert
--Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
"To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another."
--Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz [hey, isn't this the guy who invented calculus?...well, if you think that Isaac Newton didn't...unless you think they both came up with it separately, or whatever]
"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists."
--Anita Brookner
"I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
in Whining poetry."
--John Donne
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
--George Bernard Shaw
"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
--Rita Rudner
"Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times."
--Rita Rudner
"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known."
--Walt Disney
"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."
--Anna Louise Strong
"The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep."
--Alan Patrick Herbert
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Date: 2003-01-22 09:44 am (UTC)brains: 10 personality: 1
ah, john donne... :-)
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Date: 2003-01-22 12:48 pm (UTC)No wonder Leibnitz is quoted on love and Newton isn't.