"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
 And therefore is wing'd cupid painted blind.
 Nor hath love's mind of any judgement taste.
 Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
 And therefore is love said to be a child.
 Because, in choice, he is so oft beguiled."
           -Helena from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William
Shakespeare 

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-George Bernard Shaw

It is impossible to love and to be wise.
-Francis Bacon

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate
people like that!
-Tom Lehrer

One hour of right-down love
Is worth an age of dully living on.
-Aphra Behn

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.
-Louise Beal

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
-Aphra Behn

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd steppedin it
a few times.
-Rita Rudner

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
-The Bible

If you judge someone, you have no time to love them.
-Mother Teresa

Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is 
strong as death.
-The Bible

Love seeketh not Itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives it ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
-William Blake

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
-Jorge Luis Borges

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. 
     --Voltaire

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving. 
     --Anonymous

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. 
     --John Donne

There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few 
years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright 
gait; but if he does not
learn it he must perish. 
     --Alfred Adler

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. 
     --Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz

O what a 
heaven is love! O what a hell! -Thomas Dekker

I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so 
in Whining poetry.
-John Donne

All mankind love a lover.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

For you see, each day I ove you more,
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
-Rosemonde Gerard

A lover without indescretion is no lover at all.
-Thomas Hardy

Love and a cough cannot be hid.
-George Herbert

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed 
to find themselves alone.
-La Bruyere

If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than 
friendship.
-La Rochefoucauld

It is with true love as it is with ghosts;
everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-La Rochefoucauld

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
-Thomas Mann

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
-Christopher Marlowe

Love is a kind of warfare.
-OVID

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but 
in looking outward together in the same direction.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
-George Sand

The course of true love never did run smooth.
-Shakespeare

All's fair in love and war.
-Francis Edward Smedley

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life.
That word is love.
-Sophocles

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
-Miguel de Unamuno