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Why L-O-V-E Stands for Love

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L-o-v-e. The spelling of love. The four letters that were instrumental in the genesis of life. Without love there cannot be life. L-o-v-e may be a crisp four-letter word but it is the one word that transcends generations, geographies, and cultural diversities. Love exists in all aspects of life. Feel the power of love.

Glenn Beck
Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.

Sandra J. Dykes
Forget love -- I'd rather fall in chocolate!

Henry Louis Mencken
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Plato
Love is a grave mental disease.

W. Somerset Maugham
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

Bill Balance
When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.

John Ciardi
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

Mignon McLaughlin
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

Honoré de Balzac
Great love affairs start with champagne and end with tisane.

Paul-Jean Toulet
Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby.

William Shakespeare
Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous; and it pricks like thorn.

Andrew Lang
What is love but a disease?

Anthony Trollope
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

James Baldwin
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Sir David Paradine Frost
Love is staying up all night with a sick child -- or a healthy adult.

Javan
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

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