Non enim facile de his, quos plurimum diligimus, turpitudinem suspicamur. We donoteasilysuspectevil ofthosewhomwelovemost.

-Abelard, Peter
c.1132  Historia Calamitatum, ch.6.

Like finding oneself pregnant and trying to fall in love as quicklyas possible.

-Acheson, Dean Gooderham
On the weekend of Richard M Nixon's inauguration. Quoted in Douglas Brinkley Dean  Acheson: The Cold WarYears1953^71 (1992).

Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.

-Allen,Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg
  Annie Hall (with Marshall Brickman).

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; Girls aren't like that. See Byron181:73.

-Amis, Sir Kingsley
  'A Bookshop Idyll'.

Liquide constet inter virum et uxorem amorem sibi locum vindicare non posse. It is clearly certain that between man and wife love can claim no place.

-Andreas Capellanus   fl. late12c
c.1185  De Amore, bk.1, ch.6, section 7.

The sadness of the women's movement isthat they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

-Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson
  Interview in California Living,14 May. Collected in Conversations with Maya  Angelou (1989).

Candida me docuit nigras odisse puellas. Odero si potero. Si non, invitus amabo. A white girl instructed me to hate black girls. I shall hate them if I can. If not, I shall love themöagainst my will.

-Anonymous
c.1c  AD  Graffito found in Pompeii. In Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum I V,1520.

Lenten is come with love to toune.

-Anonymous
c.1300  'Lenten is come', l.1.

Of alle chevalry to chose, the chef thyng alosed Is the lel layk of luf, the lettrure of armes. Choosing from all chivalrous actions, the chief things to praise Are the loyal sport of love and the lore of arms.

-Anonymous
c.1370  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, l.1512^3.

   My Love in her attire doth show her wit, It doth so well become her; For every season she hath dressings fit, For winter, spring, and summer. No beauty she doth miss When all her robes are on; But beauty's self she is When all her robes are gone.

-Anonymous
'Madrigal'. Collected in F Davison (ed) Poetical Rhapsody (1602).

O ye'll tak the high road, and I'll tak the low road, And I'll be in Scotland afore ye, But me and my true love will never meet again On the bonnie, bonnie banks o' Loch Lomond By yon bonnie banks and by yon bonnie braes, Where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond.

-Anonymous
  'The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond', chorus and stanza1. The author was a  Jacobite imprisoned in Carlisle.

Westron winde, when wilt thou blow, The smalle raine downe can raine? Christ if my love were in my armes, And I in my bed againe.

-Anonymous
c.1500  Untitled lyric.

Make love, not war.

-Anonymous
Flower Power movement, mid-1960s.

   Vous savez bien que l'amour, c'est avant tout le don de soi! Above all, you must understand that love is the gift of oneself!

-Anouilh,Jean
  Arde'  le.

Salud, Dinero, Amor†yTiempo. Health,Wealth, Love†and Time to enjoy them.

-Anonymous
Traditional Spanish wedding toast.

Faire l'amour avec une femme qui ne vous pla|"t pas, c'est aussi triste que de travailler. To make love with a woman whom you do not like is as sad as going to work.

-Anouilh,Jean
L'Hermine, act1.

Entitlement spendingöthe politics of greed wrapped in the language of love.

-Armey, Dick (Richard Keith)
  On President  Johnson's legacy to his party. In the US News &  World Report,12 Dec.

Young children [are] sooner allured by love than driven by beating to attain good learning.

-Ascham, Roger
  The Schoolmaster,'A Preface to the Reader'.

   There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'September1,1939'.

In our anguish we struggle To elude Him, to lie to Him, yet His love observes His appalling promise; His predilection As we wander and weep is with us to the end, Minding our meanings, our least matter dear to Him.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
^6  The Age of  Anxiety, pt.6, Epilogue.