The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

From the boys‘ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.

It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

Housework never really bothered me… what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life… when you’re a housewife, you are constantly interrupted. You have no space in your life. It isn’t the fact that you do the laundry.

The word ‚romance,‘ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

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

My wife and I love each other very much.

The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

El Salvador is a democracy so it’s not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans… I have heard a single voice.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Charlotte Bronte was writing about sex. I supposed Jane Austen was, too. Where do you get a hero like Darcy unless you are writing about sex?

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

All mankind love a lover.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don’t think Kennedy should have done it. I don’t think Johnson should have done it, and I don’t think we should have done it.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.