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

I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

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.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

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

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.

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.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

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

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

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

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.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

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

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

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

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.

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

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

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

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

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

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.

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

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

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

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.

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.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

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

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.

All mankind love a lover.

I do not like the human race. I don’t like their heads, I don’t like their faces, I don’t like their feet, I don’t like their conversations, I don’t like their hairdos, I don’t like their automobiles.

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

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

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.

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

You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

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

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

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

Love is an interesting thing.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

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

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

My wife and I love each other very much.

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

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

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