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Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.

Judith Viorst

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. Thanks to Art & Mara Protas -Karen Sunde.

Karen Sunde

Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.

Francesca M. Cancian

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. -Nora Roberts.

Nora Roberts

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

Julie Andrews

There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.

Marcel Proust

A blind person, in reality, is the only person who can truly see. They know first hand what true love is, without the use of eyes, but with the heart. And that is the truest form of love, and they harness it.

Paul Acquasanta

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Zelda Fitzgerald

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies bleeding.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met - or never parted, We had never been broken-hearted.

Robert Burns "Ae Fond Kiss"

However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.

Virgilia Peterson

In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears.

George Gordon, Lord Byron "When We Two Parted"

From the lone shielding on the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas-- But still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, And we in dreams behold the Hebrides.

Unattributed Author

Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee,--are all with thee!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand!

Sir Walter Scott

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. [Fr., La patrie est aux lieux ou l'ame est enchainee.]

Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

Woodrow T. Wilson

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

Woodrow Wilson

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the American flag, and keep step to the music of the Union.

Rufus Choate

O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.

Lewis J. Bates

Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.

John Milton

I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth And send to darkness all that stop me.

William Shakespeare

Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth for he magnetizes to your home those who love every heart. (typo corrected).

Saiom Shriver

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