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# Love Lines

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Jan 17, 2008 5:00 AM UTC

‘My love for you is more/ athletic than a verb.’

SYLVIA PLATH,

poet and writer

‘Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jiving too.’

B.B. KING,

blues musician

‘I love you more than my own skin.’

FRIDA KAHLO,

painter

‘Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.’

STEPHEN LEACOCK, humorist and economist

‘Romance without finance ain’t got no chance.’

CHARLIE PARKER, jazz musician

‘Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.’

DOROTHY PARKER, poet and writer

‘Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.’

MEL BROOKS, filmmaker

‘Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.’

MAURICE CHEVALIER, actor and singer

‘Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.’

BERTRAND RUSSELL, philosopher and writer

‘Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.’

LORD BYRON, poet

‘If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?’

LILY TOMLIN, comedian and actress

‘And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.’

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