Love is...

Life is the flower of which love is the honey.
--Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr

Love is friendship set to music
--Pollock

Love is like quicksilver in the hand.
Leave the fingers open and it stays.
Clutch it, and it darts away.
--Dorothy Parker 

Love is the only kind of fire which is never covered by insurance.
--Author Unknown

Love is a state of mind which has nothing to do with the mind.
--Bob Phillips

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
--Franklin P. Jones

Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
--Cathy Carlyle

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

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
--Ben Hecht

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
--Fulton J. Sheen

Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's.
--Germaine De Stael

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
--H.L.Mencken

Love is anterior to life,
Posterior to death,
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of breath.
--Emily Dickinson

What is love? It is the morning
and the evening star.
--Sinclair Lewis

Love is like a hunter, who cares
not for the game when once caught,
which he may have pursued with the most
intense and breathless eagerness.
Love is strongest in pursuit;
friendship in possession.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is a wild bird that no one can tame
It's useless to chase it
If it won't play the game
--From the opera Carmen

Love, then, hath every bliss in store;
'Tis friendship, and 'tis something more.
Each other every wish they give;
Not to know love is not to live.
--John Gay

But true love is a durable fire,
In the mind ever burning,
Never sick, never old, never dead,
From itself never turning.
--Sir Walter Raleigh

Now what is Love, I pray thee, tell?
It is that fountain and that well
Where pleasure and repentance dwell;
It is perhaps the sauncing bell
That tolls all into heaven or hell:
And this is Love, as I hear tell.
--Sir Walter Raleigh