Love

": He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed."

"Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me prov'd, I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd."

"The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."

"Love's Pestilence, and her slow dogs of war."

"Thy fatal shafts unerring move; I bow before thine altar, Love!"

"Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave."

"And when my own Mark Antony Against young Cæsar strove, And Rome's whole world was set in arms, The cause was,—all for love."

"Cupid "the little greatest god.""

"To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above."

"Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end."

"L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un épisode dans celle des hommes."

": Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's."

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

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

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

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

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

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

": Love is a credulous thing."

"Otia si tollas, periere cupidinis arcus."

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

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

"What thing is love?—for (well I wot) love is a thing. It is a prick, it is a sting. It is a pretty, pretty thing; It is a fire, it is a coal, Whose flame creeps in at every hole!"

"Love will make men dare to die for their beloved—love alone; and women as well as men."

"Amor et melle et felle est fœcundissimus: Gustu dat dulce, amarum ad satietatem usque aggerit."

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

": Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold."

"Qui in amore præcipitavit pejus perit, quam si saxo saliat."

"Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies."

"Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy."

"Scilicent insano nemo in amore videt."

": Everybody in love is blind."

"Ach die Zeiten der Liebe rollen nicht zurück, sondern ewig weiter hinab."

": Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever."

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

"Ein liebendes Mädchen wird unbewust kühner."

"Oh! she was good as she was fair. None—none on earth above her! As pure in thought as angels are, To know her was to love her."

"Love is the fulfilling of the law."

"Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God."

"Et l'on revient toujours à ses premiers amours."

": Love is an egotism of two."

"Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women."

": In the smallest cot there is room enough for a loving pair."

"Arm in Arm mit dir, So fordr' ich mein Jahrhundert in die Schranken."

": I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved."

"Mortals, while through the world you go, Hope may succor and faith befriend, Yet happy your hearts if you can but know, Love awaits at the journey's end!"

"In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love."

"Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star."

"Magis gauderes quod habueras, quam moereres quod amiseras."

"Jupiter ex alto perjuria ridet amantum."