Career Advice

A career is great, but you can't run your fingers through its hair.

A kiss is a course of procedure, cunningly devised, for the mutual stoppage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

A woman was in love with fourteen soldiers. It was clearly platoonic.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires.

— La Rochefoucauld

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

— Hannah More

Absence is to love what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

— La Rochefoucauld

Always there remain portions of our heart into which no one is able to enter, invite them as we may.

Bondage maybe, discipline never!

— T.K.

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

— Lord Chesterfield

Don't despair; your ideal lover is waiting for you around the corner.

Falling in Love When two people have been on enough dates, they generally fall in love. You can tell you're in love by the way you feel: your head becomes light, your heart leaps within you, you feel like you're walking on air, and the whole world seems like a wonderful and happy place. Unfortunately, these are also the four warning signs of colon disease, so it's always a good idea to check with your doctor.

— Dave Barry

Falling in love is a lot like dying. You never get to do it enough to become good at it.

Finish the sentence below in 25 words or less: "Love is what you feel just before you give someone a good ..." Mail your answer along with the top half of your supervisor to: P.O. Box 35 Baffled Greek, Michigan

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

— St. Augustine

God is love, but get it in writing.

— Gypsy Rose Lee

"He did decide, though, that with more time and a great deal of mental effort, he could probably turn the activity into an acceptable perversion."

— Mick Farren, "When Gravity Fails"

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage -- he won't encounter many rivals.

— Georg Lichtenberg, "Aphorisms"

Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

— The Wizard of Oz

HEY KIDS! ANN LANDERS SAYS: Be sure it's true, when you say "I love you". It's a sin to tell a lie. Millions of hearts have been broken, just because these words were spoken.

His heart was yours from the first moment that you met.

How much does she love you? Less than you'll ever know.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so.

— John Donne

I can mend the break of day, heal a broken heart, and provide temporary relief to nymphomaniacs.

— Larry Lee

I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.

— Jean Anouilh

I love you more than anything in this world. I don't expect that will last.

— Elvis Costello

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

— Roy Croft

I loved her with a love thirsty and desperate. I felt that we two might commit some act so atrocious that the world, seeing us, would find it irresistible.

— Gene Wolfe, "The Shadow of the Torturer"

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

— Mae West

I think a relationship is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies. Well, what we have on our hands here is a dead shark.

— Woody Allen

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

— Mae West

I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer thought that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.

— Rita Mae Brown

"I'd love to go out with you, but I did my own thing and now I've got to undo it."

"I'd love to go out with you, but I have to floss my cat."

"I'd love to go out with you, but I have to stay home and see if I snore."

"I'd love to go out with you, but I never go out on days that end in `Y.'"

"I'd love to go out with you, but I want to spend more time with my blender."

"I'd love to go out with you, but I'm attending the opening of my garage door."

"I'd love to go out with you, but I'm converting my calendar watch from Julian to Gregorian."

"I'd love to go out with you, but I'm doing door-to-door collecting for static cling."

"I'd love to go out with you, but I'm having all my plants neutered."

"I'd love to go out with you, but I'm staying home to work on my cottage cheese sculpture."

"I'd love to go out with you, but I'm taking punk totem pole carving."

"I'd love to go out with you, but I've been scheduled for a karma transplant."

"I'd love to go out with you, but it's my parakeet's bowling night."

"I'd love to go out with you, but my favorite commercial is on TV."

"I'd love to go out with you, but the last time I went out, I never came back."

"I'd love to go out with you, but the man on television told me to say tuned."

"I'd love to go out with you, but there are important world issues that need worrying about."

I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.

— Bette Davis, "Cabin in the Cotton"

"I'll tell you what I know, then," he decided. "The pin I'm wearing means I'm a member of the IA. That's Inamorati Anonymous. An inamorato is somebody in love. That's the worst addiction of all." "Somebody is about to fall in love," Oedipa said, "you go sit with them, or something?" "Right. The whole idea is to get where you don't need it. I was lucky. I kicked it young. But there are sixty-year-old men, believe it or not, and women even older, who might wake up in the night screaming." "You hold meetings, then, like the AA?" "No, of course not. You get a phone number, an answering service you can call. Nobody knows anybody else's name; just the number in case it gets so bad you can't handle it alone. We're isolates, Arnold. Meetings would destroy the whole point of it."

— Thomas Pynchon, "The Crying of Lot 49"

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

— Lily Tomlin

If Love Were Oil, I'd Be About A Quart Low

— Book title by Lewis Grizzard

If only you knew she loved you, you could face the uncertainty of whether you love her.

If you can't be good, be careful. If you can't be careful, give me a call.

If you love someone, set them free. If they don't come back, then call them up when you're drunk.

In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.

— Elizabeth Ashley

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

— Russell Baker

In love, she who gives her portrait promises the original.

— Bruton

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

— Margaret Anderson

It is far better to be deceived than to be undeceived by those we love.

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

— Rebecca West

Let us live!!! Let us love!!! Let us share the deepest secrets of our souls!!! You first.

Let's just be friends and make no special effort to ever see each other again.

Let's not complicate our relationship by trying to communicate with each other.

Lonely is a man without love.

— Englebert Humperdinck

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen.

Love cannot be much younger than the lust for murder.

— Sigmund Freud

Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.

— Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)

Love is a grave mental disease.

— Plato

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra, which suddenly flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come.

— Matt Groening, "Love is Hell"

Love is always open arms. With arms open you allow love to come and go as it wills, freely, for it will do so anyway. If you close your arms about love you'll find you are left only holding yourself.

Love is being stupid together.

— Paul Valery

Love is dope, not chicken soup. I mean, love is something to be passed around freely, not spooned down someone's throat for their own good by a Jewish mother who cooked it all by herself.

Love is in the offing.

— The Homicidal Maniac

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

— Bruce Lee

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Love is never asking why?

Love is not enough, but it sure helps.

Love is sentimental measles.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child, or a healthy adult.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

— M. Hirschfield

Love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.

— Saint Exupery

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

— H. L. Mencken

Love IS what it's cracked up to be.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

— James Thurber

Love isn't only blind, it's also deaf, dumb, and stupid.

Love means having to say you're sorry every five minutes.

Love tells us many things that are not so.

— Krainian Proverb

May your SO always know when you need a hug.

"Maybe we should think of this as one perfect week... where we found each other, and loved each other... and then let each other go before anyone had to seek professional help."

Most people don't need a great deal of love nearly so much as they need a steady supply.

My cup hath runneth'd over with love.

Nature abhors a virgin -- a frozen asset.

— Clare Booth Luce

"No, I understand now," Auberon said, calm in the woods -- it was so simple, really. "I didn't, for a long time, but I do now. You just can't hold people, you can't own them. I mean it's only natural, a natural process really. Meet. Love. Part. Life goes on. There was never any reason to expect her to stay always the same -- I mean `in love,' you know." There were those doubt-quotes of Smoky's, heavily indicated. "I don't hold a grudge. I can't." "You do," Grandfather Trout said. "And you don't understand."

— Little, Big, "John Crowley"

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal.

Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

— Charles Bukowski

Oh, love is real enough, you will find it some day, but it has one arch-enemy -- and that is life.

— Jean Anouilh, "Ardele"

On a tous un peu peur de l'amour, mais on a surtout peur de souffrir ou de faire souffrir. [One is always a little afraid of love, but above all, one is afraid of pain or causing pain.]

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky.

— Rainer Rilke

One expresses well the love he does not feel.

— J.A. Karr

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

— Ken Kesey

Really?? What a coincidence, I'm shallow too!!

Sometime when you least expect it, Love will tap you on the shoulder... and ask you to move out of the way because it still isn't your turn.

— N.V. Plyter

Sometimes love ain't nothing but a misunderstanding between two fools.

Sorry never means having your say to love.

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way as us.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That's life for you, said McDunn. Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving something more than that thing loves them. And after awhile you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.

— R. Bradbury, "The Fog Horn"

The birds are singing, the flowers are budding, and it is time for Miss Manners to tell young lovers to stop necking in public. It's not that Miss Manners is immune to romance. Miss Manners has been known to squeeze a gentleman's arm while being helped over a curb, and, in her wild youth, even to press a dainty slipper against a foot or two under the dinner table. Miss Manners also believes that the sight of people strolling hand in hand or arm in arm or arm in hand dresses up a city considerably more than the more familiar sight of people shaking umbrellas at one another. What Miss Manners objects to is the kind of activity that frightens the horses on the street...

The giraffe you thought you offended last week is willing to be nuzzled today.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

— Blaise Pascal

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

The little pieces of my life I give to you, with love, to make a quilt to keep away the cold.

The magic of our first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The myth of romantic love holds that once you've fallen in love with the perfect partner, you're home free. Unfortunately, falling out of love seems to be just as involuntary as falling into it.

The only difference in the game of love over the last few thousand years is that they've changed trumps from clubs to diamonds.

— The Indianapolis Star

The onset and the waning of love make themselves felt in the uneasiness experienced at being alone together.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 A.M.

— Charles Pierce

The person you rejected yesterday could make you happy, if you say yes.

The seven year itch comes from fooling around during the fourth, fifth, and sixth years.

The story of the butterfly: "I was in Bogota and waiting for a lady friend. I was in love, a long time ago. I waited three days. I was hungry but could not go out for food, lest she come and I not be there to greet her. Then, on the third day, I heard a knock." "I hurried along the old passage and there, in the sunlight, there was nothing." "Just," Vance Joy said, "a butterfly, flying away."

— Peter Carey, BLISS

The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core -- Scratch a lover and find a foe!

— Dorothy Parker, "Ballad of a Great Weariness"

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

There are some micro-organisms that exhibit characteristics of both plants and animals. When exposed to light they undergo photosynthesis; and when the lights go out, they turn into animals. But then again, don't we all?

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

There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart -- to have none.

— Paul Bourget

There's so much to say but your eyes keep interrupting me.

Timing must be perfect now. Two-timing must be better than perfect.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

— Katharine Hepburn

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

— Bertrand Russell

Total strangers need love, too; and I'm stranger than most.

True happiness will be found only in true love.

Under deadline pressure for the next week. If you want something, it can wait. Unless it's blind screaming paroxysmally hedonistic...

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

— Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.

— Charles Baudelaire

When your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

— Leonard Cohen, "Sisters of Mercy"

"Why must you tell me all your secrets when it's hard enough to love you knowing nothing?"

— Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

Without love intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence love is not enough.

— Ashley Montagu

Wouldn't this be a great world if being insecure and desperate were a turn-on?

— "Broadcast News"

Yeah, there are more important things in life than money, but they won't go out with you if you don't have any.

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

— Pat Benatar, "Hell is for Children"