# Love is a battlefield

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-a-battlefield/496924
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 19, 2009, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-a-battlefield/496924 "2009-05-19T02:36:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author: ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-a-battlefield/496924/1 "2009-05-19T02:36:27Z")

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And Life is a carnival.

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### Author: ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-a-battlefield/496924/2 "2009-05-19T02:43:16Z")

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No.

Love means never having to say your sorry.

And life is like a beanstalk, isn’t it?

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### Author: ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-a-battlefield/496924/3 "2009-05-19T02:48:25Z")

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No.

Life is a highway.

And love means nothing.

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### Author: ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-a-battlefield/496924/4 "2009-05-19T02:57:51Z")

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Some think _Love is a gas_  
Then they find _it’s just a pain in the ass_

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### Author: ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-a-battlefield/496924/5 "2009-05-19T03:09:52Z")

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Well then, it is a good thing that I am a rock. I am an island.

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### Author: ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-a-battlefield/496924/6 "2009-05-19T04:16:56Z")

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Life is a rock, and the radio rolls me. Vienna also rolls. While London swings.

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### Author: ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-a-battlefield/496924/7 "2009-05-19T04:25:29Z")

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> [@Mr Bus Guy](#):
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> Love is a battlefield.

…sheesh, there sure is a lot of fraternizing with the enemy.

As for me, it’s life’s and love’s illusions I recall. I really don’t know either of them. At all.

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### Author: ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-a-battlefield/496924/8 "2009-05-19T04:31:07Z")

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> [@Rilchiam](#):
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> Life is a rock, and the radio rolls me.

Gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me.

Love is a rose, but you better not pick it.

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### Author: ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-a-battlefield/496924/9 "2009-05-19T04:31:56Z")

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Did she make you cry? Make you break down? Shatter your llusions of love?

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### Author: ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-a-battlefield/496924/10 "2009-05-19T04:38:47Z")

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Both of us know it.

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### Author: ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-a-battlefield/496924/11 "2009-05-19T05:02:44Z")

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Actually, Love is a rose.

And Life’s been good to me so far.

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### Author: ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-a-battlefield/496924/12 "2009-05-19T05:24:59Z")

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> [@SHAKES](#):
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> Then they find _it’s just a pain in the ass_

You are doing it wrong.  
😃

I would do anything for love  
I’d run right into hell and back.

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### Author: ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-a-battlefield/496924/13 "2009-05-19T05:25:47Z")

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and that’s the way uh huh uh huh I like it!

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### Author: ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-a-battlefield/496924/14 "2009-05-19T05:54:41Z")

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Nah. Life’s a piece of shit, when you look at it.

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### Author: ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-a-battlefield/496924/15 "2009-05-19T05:58:20Z")

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I’ve been through diamonds  
I’ve been through minks  
I’ve been through it all  
Love stinks

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### Author: ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-a-battlefield/496924/16 "2009-05-19T07:31:00Z")

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If anything, love is like oxygen.

On the other hand, love bites. In the dead of night.

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### Author: ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-a-battlefield/496924/17 "2009-05-19T07:36:57Z")

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Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone.

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### Author: ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-a-battlefield/496924/18 "2009-05-19T10:54:32Z")

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What’s love, but a second hand emotion?

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### Author: ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-a-battlefield/496924/19 "2009-05-19T14:27:13Z")

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> [@Forest Gump](#):
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> Life is like a box of chocolates.

Someone had to.

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### Author: ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-a-battlefield/496924/20 "2009-05-19T18:00:07Z")

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Love is blind.

God is love.

Therefore: Stevie Wonder is God!

QED

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