Dating and Passion

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;

 

Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.

 

Da mi basia mille.

 

Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus.

 

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

 

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.

[ 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.

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.

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

On ne Badine pas avec l’Amour .

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

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.

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

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

Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.

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.”

A man’s kiss is his signature.

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.

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

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

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

Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae.