There is no love; There are only the various envies, all of them sad.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'In Praise of Limestone',1.58^9.

I'll love you dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven starsgo squawking Like geese about the sky.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'As I  Walked Out One Evening'.

O tell me the truth about love. When it comes, will it come without warning Just as I'm picking my nose? Will it knock on my door in the morning, Or tread in the bus on my toes?

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'Twelve Poems', section12.

Dilige et quod vis fac. Love, and do what you like

-St Augustine originally Aurelius Augustinus
AD 413  In Epistolam Joannis ad Parthos, tractatus 7, section 8.

Do not plan long journeys, because whatever you believe in you have already seen.When a thing is everywhere, the way to find it is not to travel but to love.

-St Augustine originally Aurelius Augustinus
Quoted in Ingrid Cranfield  The Challengers (1976).

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions.

-Austen,Jane
  Pride and Prejudice, ch.24.

It is not granted to man to love and to be wise.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  The Advancement of Learning, bk.2.

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and mastersthefearofdeath. And therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.2,'Of Death'.

For it isa true Rulethat Love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque, or with an inward and secret contempt.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.10,'Of Love'.

The speaking in perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.10,'Of Love'.

A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but atinkling cymbal, wherethere isno love. See Bible121:9.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.27,'Of Friendship'.

Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around.

-Bainbridge, Dame Beryl Margaret
  Interview in the Daily  Telegraph,10 Sep.

Love is a human emotion and the doctor isn't human.We 52

-Baker, Colin
English   photographer    known   particularly    for   his    striking pictures of cultural icons.

'Oh, mother, mother, mak my bed, And mak it saft and narrow; My love has died for me to-day, I'll die for him tomorrow.'

-Ballads
'Barbara  Allen'.

O waly, waly up the bank, And waly, waly doun the brae, And waly, waly yon burn-side Where I and my love wont to gae. I lean'd my back unto an aik, I thocht it was a trustie tree; But first it bow'd, and syne it brakeö Sae my true love did lichtlie me. O waly, waly, gin love be bonnie A little time while it is new; But when 'tis auld it waxeth cauld And fades awa' like morning dew. O wherefore should I busk my heid, O wherefore should I kame my hair? For my true love has me forsook, And says he'll never lo'e me mair.

-Ballads
pre-1566  'Waly, Waly', opening stanzas.

L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.

-Balzac, Honore¤   de
La Recherche de l'absolu.

But had I wist, before I kiss'd, That love had been sae ill to win. I'd lock'd my heart in a case o'gowd, And pinn'd it wi'a siller pin.

-Ballads
pre-1566  'Waly, Waly', stanza 4.

L'amour a son instinct, il sait trouver le chemin du coeur comme le plus faible insecte marche a'   sa fleur avec une irre¤  sistible volonte¤   qui ne s'e¤  pouvante de rien. Love has its own instinct. It knows how to find the road to the heart just as the weakest insect moves towarditsflowerbyanirresistiblewillwhichfearsnothing.

-Balzac, Honore¤   de
  La Femme de trente ans.

Luff is off sae mekill mycht, That it all paynis makis lycht.

-Barbour,John
c.1375  The Brus, bk.2, l.520^1.

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.

-Barnes,Julian Patrick
Talking It Over, ch.16.