Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Francois de La Rouchefoucauld
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Marcus Aurelius
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
Victor Borge
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
Anonymous
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
Harold Loukes
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie
