Love

": Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety."

": If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe."

"Qui finem quæris amoris, (Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris."

"Let those love now who never lov'd before, Let those who always loved now love the more."

"Otia si tollas, periere cupidinis arcus."

": Love is a credulous thing."

": If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power."

"The moods of love are like the wind, And none knows whence or why they rise."

"Auro contra cedo modestum amatorem."

"Die Liebe vermindert die weibliche Feinheit und verstärkt die männliche."

"Hei mihi! quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis."

": It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods."

": Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs."

"Res est soliciti plena timoris amor."

": Jupiter from on high laughs at the perjuries of lovers."

"Quicquid Amor jussit non est contemnere tutum. Regnat, et in dominos jus habet ille deos."

"Non bene conveniunt, nec in una sede morantur, Majestas et amor."

": Majesty and love do not well agree, nor do they live together."

"Jupiter ex alto perjuria ridet amantum."

": Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's."

"Credula res amor est."

"Perjuria ridet amantium Jupiter et ventos irrita ferre jubet."

"Ein liebendes Mädchen wird unbewust kühner."

"Cupid "the little greatest enemy.""

"O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness!"

"Soft is the breath of a maiden's Yes: Not the light gossamer stirs with less; But never a cable that holds so fast Through all the battles of wave and blast."

"Let never man be bold enough to say, Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray: The first crime, past, compels us into more, And guilt grows fate, that was but choice, before."

"Bid me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be: Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thee, A heart as soft, a heart as kind, A heart as sound and free As in the whole world thou canst find, That heart I'll give to thee."

"To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life."

"Who love too much, hate in the like extreme."

"No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love."

"Open your heart and take us in, Love—love and me."

"You say to me-wards your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long."

"And once again we plighted our troth, And titter'd, caress'd, kiss'd so dearly."

": It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new."

"Alas! for love, if thou art all, And nought beyond, O earth."

"There is a lady sweet and kind, Was never face so pleased my mind; I did but see her passing by, And yet I love her till I die."

"For love deceives the best of woman kind."

"Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth."

"What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart."

"Du bist wie eine Blume, so hold, so schön und rein; Ich shau' dich an und Wehmut schleicht mir ins Herz hinein."

"The chemist of love Will this perishing mould, Were it made out of mire, Transmute into gold."

"Greensleeves was all my joy, Greensleeves was my delight, Greensleeves was my heart of gold, And who but Lady Greensleeves?"

"Love understands love; it needs no talk."

": Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide."

"Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart."

"Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see, Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be."

"O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of love."

"Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign: And we shall never, never part, My life—my all that's mine!"

"As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us."