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Love or Lust If my love isn't strong enough to keep her, my jealousy won't either. Bro. Carroll Koon There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired. F. Scott Fitzgerald Minan Gabelwah. Native American saying meaning "I am irresistible." Doing things for your mate because you want to is right; doing things for your mate to please them is pandering; doing things for your mate because they want you to is destroying your individuality. Jim Davis You do your thing and I do my thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not here to live up to mine. You are you and I am I. If by chance we meet, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped. Frederick Paris Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. Comte de Bussy-Rabutin Vacations are a little like love - anticipated with relish, experienced with a little inconvenience and remembered with nostalgia. Thomas LeMance The only people who can hurt you are those you love; you can't be hurt by someone you don't care about. Wedding- a funeral at which you smell your own flowers. Herbert Spencer Wedding- a ceremony in which rings are put on the lady's fingers and in the man's nose. Herbert Spencer If the above are true, then divorce equals reincarnation of one's sex life. Hartley's Second Law- Never sleep with anyone crazier than yourself. If all else fails, lower your standards. Love makes fools, marriage cuckolds, and patriotism malevolent imbeciles. Paul Leautaud A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. Gore Vidal If age was measured by the heartbreaks we've had or the countless that have suddenly gone bad, it would slowly begin to show the toll they have taken on our heart and soul. Gordon Brodsky Love your neighbor as yourself, but don't take down the fence. Carl Sandburg A woman's whole history is a history of the affections. Washington Irving Love may not make the world go round, but it sure makes the trip worthwhile. Eric Johnson It's better to love people and use things, than to use people and love things. Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Katharine Porter If a man is mad about a woman - wait, only she can cure him. Chinese proverb When I'm good, I'm real good; when I'm bad, I'm better. Mae West A man is only as old as the woman he feels. Groucho Marx Sometimes I wake up grumpy, other times I let her sleep. Never put off for tomorrow who you can put out for tonight. Wise man say he who holds nothing, has nothing. A prisoner has no sex. He is God's own private eunuch. Henry Miller Sex is so dangerous, statistically it's better to go straight to the cigarettes. Elephantiasis does not improve the memory. Life is like SEX: the more you put in, the more you get out. Paul Stanley Parker's Law- Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe for you can watch both of his. I object to all this sex on TV. I keep falling off! Sorry, I don't date outside my species. Yield to temptation ... it may not pass your way again. Lazarus Long Nudists are people who wear one button suits. First Law of Sociogenetics- Celibacy is not hereditary. We must not forget that if earthly love has in the vulgar mind been often degraded into mere animal passion, it still remains in the purest sense the highest mystery of our existence, the most perfect blessing and delight on earth. Max Muller A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face, and a beautiful behavior better than a beautiful form. Emerson It is not decided that women love more than men, but it is indisputable that they love better. Sanial Dubay There is no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of women. J. Petit-Senn No one is able to feel the worth of a woman who knows not how to respect herself. Goethe The harlot knows not how to live but only to ensnare; her kiss hath poison and her mouth a pernicious drug. Chrysostom We wish to be all the happiness, or, if this cannot be, then all the unhappiness of what we love. LaBruyers Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right. Woody Allen The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous and the expense damnable. Lord Chesterfield Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. Goethe Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention. Cornelius Otis Skinner How can I miss you if you won't go away? Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. Beverly Jones Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality. C.J. Jung Love ... it's a bitch. Sugar is like Puppy Love that makes your teeth rot. Scott Knickelbine Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like brick: remade all the time, made new. Ursula K. LeGuin Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. "Yes" is the answer. Love gives us in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort after years of toil. Goethe Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. George Jean Nathan Love is like the measles: we all have to go through it. Jerome Klappka Jerome If you lose something, let it go; if it does not come back, hunt it down and kill it. Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. Nicolas Chanfort Without the heart, there can be no understanding between...the hand and the mind. Madonna Once you're forgotten, you're forgotten ... it's hard to remember what we choose to forget. Ron Sitton Sex is God's joke on human beings. Bette Davis Love is not a matter of counting the years; it is making the years count. William Smith Love gives not but itself and takes not from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; for love is sufficient unto love. Kaleel Jabar The difference is wide that bedsheets won't decide. Accomplishments ain't shit unless you have someone to share it with. The sunrise ain't great unless someone watches it with you. Living ain't living unless you can love. Blaise Raphael Rousseau Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. Woody Allen Sex has not been the same since women started enjoying it. Lewis Grizzard You are mine and I am yours in love; I am I and you are you in thought; Independently we share our lives together. Susan Polks Schultz Love is what you go through together. Thornton Wilder There is nothing that we cannot understand, if we know how to look in our hearts. Gamaliel Bradford Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody. Malcolm Forbes I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. Zsa Zsa Gabor Love is the greatest educational institution on earth. Channing Pollock I like persons better than principles and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. Oscar Wilde Fidelity (n) - A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. Ambrose Bierce 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 Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder. Margaret Hungerford Like a worm on a hook, Like a knight from some old-fashioned book, I have saved all my ribbons for thee. Leonard Cohen Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. Stephen Leacock It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving. Richard Braunstein I'm not coming tonight said the prude maiden. On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. George Orwell To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. Mark Twain It ain't me, babe. Bob Dylan The story of love is not important; what is important is that one is capable of love. Helen Hays Remember when you ran away and I got on my knees And begged you not to leave because I'd go berserk? Napoleon Bonaparte XIV Once you have had the chance to love intensely, your life is spent in search of the same light and the same ardor. Albert Camus The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. Brendan Behan Kissing don't last: cookery do! George Meredith The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. George Bernard Shaw Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? Rita Rudner Half-hearted requests for love leave me fully disenchanted. 'Tis Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Samuel Butler Whether they give or refuse, women are glad to have been asked. Ovid There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. George Bernard Shaw Do you know? Do you care? Phil Collins The probability of anything happening is in inverse ratio to its desirability. What you need is Motherly Love. Frank Zappa The heart has its reasons which reason does not know. Blaise Pascal My problem is that I appeal to everyone that can do me absolutely no good! If there's anything unsettling to the stomach it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. Marlon Brando Heaven has no rage like a love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. William Congreve I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid. Dorothy Parker Half the promises people say were never kept were never made. E. W. Howe An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. Pliny For all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: It might have been! John Greenleaf Whittier A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him. Nathaniel Branden Last night I had a dream You were in it, I was in it with you. Randy Newman Come up and see me sometime. Mae West Ah, love - the walks over soft grass, the smiles over candlelight, the arguments over just about everything else. Max Headroom By the accident of fortune a person may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever. Lao Tzu What's new seems beautiful. French proverb Copyright İRonald W. Sitton, 2009. Revised 022606 - http://southerner.net/sitron/wis/wluv.html |