Quotes 1981 till 2000 of 3862.
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Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.
Faceboek (2011) -
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Artist of Life -
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Love is like linen, often changed the sweeter.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
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Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.
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Love, and do what you like.
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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Zora Neale Hurston
American novelist, short story writer, folklorist and anthropologist (1891 - 1960) -
Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.
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