Dating and Passion

Da mi basia mille.

 

Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus.

 

What a woman says to an eager lover, / write it on running water, write it on air.

In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove;

 

Equal to the gods seems to me that man who sits facing you and hears you nearby sweetly speaking and softly laughing. This sets my heart to fluttering in my breast, for when I look on you a moment, then can I speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a cold sweat bathes me, and a trembling seizes me all over, and I am paler than grass, and I feel that I am near to death.

In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

 

[ Of a girl before marriage :] As an apple reddens on the high bough; high atop the highest bough the apple pickers passed it by—no, not passed it by, but they could not reach it.

Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.

A kiss, when all is said, what is it? An oath sworn nearer by; a promise made With greater certainty; a vow which seeks To make itself more binding; a rosy dot Placed on the “i” in loving; ’tis a secret Told to the mouth instead of to the ear.

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?

On ne Badine pas avec l’Amour .

Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world.

Je le vis, je rougis, je pâlis à sa vue .

Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.

 

Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae.

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her imagination, and then they both speak of it as an affair of “the heart.”

Why don’t you come up sometime, and see me?

It is not enough to conquer; one must also know how to seduce.

IT IS DIFFICULT TO KNOW AT WHAT MOMENT LOVE BEGINS; IT IS LESS DIFFICULT TO KNOW THAT IT HAS BEGUN.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

A man’s kiss is his signature.

For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?

Don't come crawlin' to a man for love--he likes to get a run for his money.