Love without marriage can sometimes be very awkward for all concerned; but marriage without love simply removes that institution from the territory of the humanly admissible, to my mind. Love is a state in which one lives who loves, and whoever loves has given himself away; love then, and not marriage, is belonging. Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate; mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds. -Katherine Anne Porter

Love means never having to say you’re sorry. -Erich Segal, Love Story

Love sickness needs a love cure. -Chinese proverb

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. -Robertson Davies

The love between man and woman is the greatest and most complete passion the world will ever see, because it is dual, because it is of two opposing kinds. -D.H. Lawrence

When she kissed me once in a play,
Rubies were less bright than they;
And less bright were those which shone
In the palace of the Sun.
Will they be as bright again?
Not if kiss'd by other men. -Walter Savage Landor, Rubies

The kiss, in which he half forgets even such a yoke as yours. -Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome -Virginia

A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true. -Steve Martin

I throw a kiss across the sea,
I drink the winds as drinking wine,
And dream they all are blown from thee,
I catch the whisper'd kiss of thine. -Joaquin Miller, England

How should great Jove himself do else than miss
To win the woman he forgets to kiss. -Coventry Patmore, De Natura Deorum

Kisses are the messengers of love. -Martin Opitz