# Love, Love, Love! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 14, 2015, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-love-love/712678 "2015-02-14T23:21:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2015, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-love-love/712678/1 "2015-02-14T23:21:03Z")
In honour of Valentines Day I think we should share some quotes about love! I know you got 'em! Let’s see them! “You are, at once, both the quiet and confusion of my heart.” Franz Kafka “We love because it’s the only true adventure.” ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-love-love/712678/2 "2015-02-14T23:36:24Z")
[Nothing better than a little ee cummings.](http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/179622) Except maybe [these guys](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydfH7iuLR0I). Inspired by the thread title . . . ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-love-love/712678/3 "2015-02-15T02:56:51Z")
Naaaaah – Homer and Jethro OK -- I'm a glass half empty type, but its still about love. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-love-love/712678/4 "2015-02-16T21:48:25Z")
Life is one thing after another, love is 2 things after each other - don’t remember who said it ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-love-love/712678/5 "2015-02-16T21:56:03Z")
At the Last Supper, Jesus put a towel around His waist, like the lowest servant, and went around washing the feet of His disciples. When He came to Peter, Peter said, “Lord, you will never wash _my_ feet.” And Jesus said, “If I don’t wash your feet, you will have no part of me.” And Peter said, “Then not only my feet, but also my hands, and my head.” Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-love-love/712678/6 "2015-02-16T22:15:39Z")
Look… there’s nothing you can do that can’t be done… ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-love-love/712678/7 "2015-02-17T01:37:14Z")
“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” – HL Mencken “Love is that delightful period between meeting a girl and discovering she looks like a haddock.” – John Barrymore ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-love-love/712678/8 "2015-02-17T01:43:59Z")
"But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams." ---
**Author:** ![Loch\_Raven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Loch\_Raven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loch_Raven)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-love-love/712678/9 "2015-02-17T19:02:32Z")
This was originally in Portuguese, but it’s just as beautiful in English. “Only love lasts, with its immutable flame, Like the embers that remain after a great fire.” ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-love-love/712678/10 "2015-02-18T06:37:39Z")
Irish proverb: “Níl aon leigheas ar an ngrá ach pósadh.” “The only cure for love is marriage.” And, a somewhat more prosaic, but wonderfully evocative one: “Is uaigneach an níochán nach mbíonn léine ann.” “It is a lonely washing that has no man’s shirt in it.” ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-love-love/712678/11 "2015-02-18T07:15:45Z")
> [@Loch\_Raven](#): > > This was originally in Portuguese, but it’s just as beautiful in English. > > “Only love lasts, with its immutable flame, > Like the embers that remain after a great fire.” Speaking of poetry translated from Portuguese, there’s _Sonnets from the Portuguese_ (which actually aren’t.) ``` How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. ``` ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-love-love/712678/12 "2015-02-18T08:51:38Z")
“Love letters, broken lockets, Dead flowers, candy boxes, That’s what you’re left with when it’s over.” –Cub, _Main and Broadway_ ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-love-love/712678/13 "2015-02-18T12:38:38Z")
When I hear “love, love, love” I think more along the lines of [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8YCSJpF4g4) than the Beatles. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-love-love/712678/14 "2015-02-18T12:51:37Z")
> [@](#): > > Seems like only yesterday > I left my mind behind > Down in the Gypsy Cafe > With a friend of a friend of mine > She sat with a baby heavy on her knee > Yet spoke of life most free from slavery > With eyes that showed no trace of misery > A phrase in connection first with she occurred > That love is just a four-letter word … ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-love-love/712678/15 "2015-02-18T13:57:16Z")
Lemme graze into your veldt, Lemme stomple your albino, Lemme nibble on your buds, I’m your love rhino. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-love-love/712678/16 "2015-02-18T14:49:24Z")
“Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.” - Matt Groening in _Love is Hell_