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English speaking countries
Date: Centuries-old
Notes: Folk Sayings, Famous Quotes and Proverbs on Love
     
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      o Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
      o All is fair in love and war. Or, All's fair in love and war. (Meaning: In the pursuit of love, rules are made to be broken.).
      o All the world loves a lover.
      o Anyone who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming ten inches too high.
      o As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. [Old Testament]
      o As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, the truest lover may turn into the worst enemy.
     
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      o Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
      o Beauty is only skin-deep. Or, Beauty is but skin-deep.
      o Beauty draws more than oxen.
      o Beauty lies in a lover's eyes.
      o Beauty won't make the kettle boil.
      o Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
      o The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
      o The best things in life are free.
      o Better be quarreling than lonesome.
      o Better good manners than good looks.
      o Better wear out shoes than sheets.
      o Boys will be boys.
      o Building relationships is like fermenting wine. You may crush the grapes with ample efforts and give them enough warmth at the inception. Yet the wine will age at its own leisurely pace.
     
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      o Charity begins at home.
      o Cold hands, warm heart.
     
     
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      o Distance lends enchantment to the view.
      o Don't dare kiss an ugly girl, she'll tell the world about it.
      o Don't show your skin to a person who won't cover it.
      o The drunken mouth reveals the heart's secrets.
     
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      o Every Jack has his Jill (Meaning: There's someone for everyone somewhere.).
      o Every Jack has his Jill; if only they can find each other.
     
     
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      o Faint of heart never won fair lady. Or, Faint heart never won fair lady. (Meaning: Cowards don't get pretty women. And/or those who don't have courage don't get ahead).
      o Familiarity breads contempt (Meaning: The longer one lives with an individual, the easier it is to dislike him/her).
      o A fair face may hide a foul heart.
      o The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love.
      o Faults are thick where love is thin.
      o Fear is stronger than love.
      o The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
      o For every bow there is an arrow.
     
     
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      o A good Jack makes a good Jill.
      o Good men are hard to find.
      o Goodness is better than beauty.
      o The greatest hate springs from the greatest love.
     
     
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      o He that falls in love with himself will find no rival.
      o Head over heels in love.
      o The heart that once truly loves never forgets.
      o Heaven had no rage like love to hatred turned, nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned.
      o A heavy purse makes a light heart.
      o Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned (which is merely a spark compared to the Sun as a measure of the power of God's wrath)
      o Home is where the heart is.
     
     
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      o If loving her would be a sin, I wish to sin for the rest of my life.
      o If passion drives, let reason hold the reins.
      o Infatuations are aplenty. Love is rare.
      o It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
      o It's easy to halve the potato where there's love.
      o It takes two to make a quarrel.
      o It takes two to tango.
      o If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
     
     
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      Jealousy is a disease for the weak.
     
     
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      o Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
     
     
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      o Like draws to like.
      o Long absent, soon forgotten.
      o Love at first sight.
      o Love cannot be forced.
      o Love conquers all.
      o Love does much, money does everything.
      o Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
      o Love is a bridge between two hearts.
      o Love is blind.
      o Love is blind, as well as hatred.
      o Love is friendship set on fire.
      o Love is like war -- easy to begin but hard to end.
      o Love is loving what your lover loves.
      o Love is not finding someone to live with, it's finding someone whom you can't live without.
      o Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. [Mark Twain]
      o "Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak." [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet]
      o Love laughs at locksmiths.
      o Love makes the world go round.
      o Love sees no faults.
      o Love will creep where it may not go.
      o Love will find a way.
      o Lovers' quarrels are soon mended.
      o Loving someone to bits. (Meaning) Loving a lot.
      o Loving someone to death. (Meaning) Loving a lot.
      o Lucky in cards, unlucky in love.
     
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      o A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.
     
      o A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
     
     
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      o Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking.
     
      O
     
      o Of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.
      o Out of sight... Out of mind.
     
     
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      o Parting is such sweet sorrow.
      o Peace is an expression of love. Let's make love.
      o Perfect love cannot be without equality.
      o Puppy love. (Meaning) Love between very young people, that may not last.
      o Put the light out and all women are alike.
     
     
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      o Salt water and absence wash away love.
      o Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
     
     
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      o Tell me whom you love and I'll tell you who you are.
      o There are fish in the sea better than have ever been caught.
      o There's life in the old dog yet.
      o There's no place like home.
      o There's plenty more fish in the sea.Or, There are plenty more fish in the sea. (Meaning: The sentence is often used to console women when they have been dumped.)
      o Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age but they die young.
      o They who love most are least valued.
      o They who love too much who die for love.
      o Those who love most are least valued.
      o To be head over heels in love.
      o To give and not expect in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
      o "To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best." [William M. Thackeray]
      o To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. Or, You may only be one person to the world, but you may also be the world to one person.
      o To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve.
      o "Thou are to me a delicious moment." [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
      o True love is like ghosts which everyone talks about but few have seen.
      o A true friend laughs at your stories even when they're not so good, an sympathizes with your troubles evenw hen they're not so bad.
      o True love never grows old.
     
     
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      o The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
      o The way to a man's heart is through the ribcage.
      o What the heart thinks the tongue speaks.
      o Whoredom and grace ne'er dwelt in one place.
      o When the heart is full, the tongue will speak.
      o Where love fails we espy all faults.
      o Where there is love there is life.
      o Where there is no trust there is no love.
      o Witches and harlots come out at night.
      o A woman is like a cup of tea; you'll never know how strong she is until she boils.
      o A woman's will is God's will (Meaning: that which a woman wishes, God wishes.)
      o Women are like different brews of Coffee. Each one of them has her own Aroma and her own way of tantalizing the taste buds. Yet neither is better or worst than either of them, but the one that stands out for you is only a matter of acquired taste.
      o Women are mysteries to men, but are wise to each other.
      o A worthy woman is far more precious than jewels, strength and dignity are her clothing. [Old Testament]
      o Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
     
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      o You can't buy love.
      o You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
      o You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
      o You may only be one person to the world, but you may also be the world to one person. Or, To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
     
     
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Spanish speaking countries
Date: Centuries-old
Notes: Spanish Proverbs or Folk Sayings on Love
     
     
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      o English equivalent: Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
      - Spanish original: La ausencia es al amor lo que al fuego el aire: que apaga el pequeno y aviva el grande.
     
     
      o Actions show love, not fine words.
     
     
     
      B
     
      o Beautiful women and good horses are lost by stupid people.
      - Spanish original: A las mujeres bonitas y a los buenos caballos los echan a perder los pendejos.
     
      o Beware of a woman with a bad reputation, but don't go putting your trust in a good woman either.
     
      o A boy's love is water in a sieve.
     
     
     
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      o A determined heart will not be counseled.
     
      o Desire turns an ugly woman into a pretty one.
     
     
      E
     
      o Every woman has something of a witch about her.
     
     
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      o Four things put a man beside himself -- women, tobacco, cards and wine.
     
     
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      o in English translation: God makes them and they meet each other.
      - Spanish original: Dios los cria y elos se juntan.
     
     
      o A good heart breaks bad fortune.
     
     
      o A good-looking man is not quite poor.
     
      o A good-looking woman is either vain or foolish.
     
      o English equivalent: The greatest hate springs from the greatest love.
      - Spanish original: El mayor aborrecimiento, en el amor tiene su cimiento.
     
     
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      o A handsome man is not quite poor.
     
      o He who loves me loves my dog too.
     
      o in English translation: He/She who loves you a lot can make you cry.
      - Spanish original: Quien bien te quiere, te hara llorar.
     
     
      o He who loves well is slow to forget.
     
      o He who loves well, obeys well.
     
      o Health and cheerfulness make beauty; finery and cosmetics cost money and lie.
     
      o The heart is no traitor.
     
     
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      o If love be timid it is not true.
     
      o If the eyes don't see, the heart won't break.
     
      o In the dark and quiet, all women are smart.
      - Spanish original: A oscuras y en silencio, no hay mujer sin ingenio.
     
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      o English equivalent: Love does much, money does everything.
      - Spanish original: Amor con amor se paga; y lo demas con dinero.
     
     
      o Love, grief and money cannot be kept secret.
     
      o Love is like war; begin when you lie and leave off when you can.
     
      o Love, pain and money cannot be kept secret; they soon betray themselves.
     
      o English equivalent: Lovers' quarrels are soon mended.
      - Spanish original: Rinen a menudo los amtes, por el gusto de hacer las paces.
     
      o Lovers think that others have no eyes.
     
      o in English translation: Lucky in cards, unlucky in love.
      - Spanish original: Afortunado en el juego, desafortunado en al amor.
     
     
     
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      o Mad love -- I for you, and you for another.
     
      o The man who does not love a horse cannot love a woman.
     
      o A melon and a woman are both hard to know.
     
      o A mistress in a high place is not a bad thing.
     
      o in English translation: Much as I like you, puppy, but not enough to give you bread.
      - Meaning: You're not that attractive and I'm not that desperate.
      - Spanish original: Tanto te quiero perrito, pero pa' pan muy poquito.
     
     
      o in English translation: A mule and a woman must be conquered with blows from sticks.
      - Spanish original: A la mula y a la mujer, a palos se ha de vencer.
     
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      o Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
     
      o New loves drive out the old.
     
      o No fate is worse than a life without a love.
     
      o No woman can make a wise man out of a fool, but every woman can change a wise man into a fool.
     
      o No woman is ugly when she is dressed.
     
     
     
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      o The oaths of one who loves a woman are not to be believed.
     
      o in English equivalent: Of all pains, the greatest pain is to love but love in vain.
      - Spanish original: Amar, horas perdidas, sino correspondidas.
     
      o Of soups and loves the first are the best.
     
      o One loves drives out another.
     
      o The only chaste woman is the one who has not been chased.
     
     
     
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      o Please your eye and plague your heart.
     
     
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      o in English translation: A rose too often smelled loses its fragrance.
      - Meaning: A loose woman loses her charm.
     
     
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      o She is fond of greens who kisses the gardener.
     
      o She who loves an ugly man thinks him handsome.
     
      o Shut your door, and you will mkae your neighbour a good woman.
     
      o Soft and fair goes far.
     
     
     
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      o Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
     
      o Tell her she is handsome and you will turn her head.
     
      o There is little use in watching a bad woman.
     
      o in English translation (literally): They lived happily and ate partridge (and didn't give me any).
      - English equivalent: And they lived happily ever after.
      - Spanish original: Vivieron felices y comieron perdices (y a mi no me dieron).
     
      o Those who have friends are rich.
     
      o To give honor is to love grief.
     
      o To love and be wise is impossible.
     
      o True love suffers no concealment.
     
      o in English translation (literally): Two breasts pull more than two wagons.
      - Meaning: The ability of women to get things in their favor due to their beauty and sexuality.
      - Spanish original: Dos tetas tiran mas que dos carretas.
     
     
     
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      o With lightning and with love, the clothes sound, the heart burns.
     
      o English equivalent: What the eye sees not, the heart craves not.
      - Spanish original: Ojos que no ven corazon que no siente.
     
      o When love is not madness, it is not love.
     
      o Where there is love, there is pain.
     
      o Whoredom and thieving are never long concealed.
     
      o in English translation (literally): A woman's pubic hair pulls more than a tractor.
      - Meaning: The ability of women to get things in their favor due to their beauty and sexuality.
      - Spanish original: Pelo de cuca jala mas que un tractor.
     
     
      o Women, wind and fortune soon change.
     
     
     
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      o You will not be loved if you care for none but yourself.
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French speaking countries
Date: Centuries-old
Notes: French Proverbs, Folk Sayings and Famous Quotes on Love
     
     
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      o in English translation: After the love, the repentance.
      - French original:Apres l'amour, le repentir.
     
      o "All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love." [Marquis de Lafayette]
     
      o in English translation: At night all cats are gray.
      - Meaning: When the lights are out (i.e., in bed) women all look the same.
      - French original: La nuit tous les chats sont gris.
     
     
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      o in English translation: Beautiful minds recognize eacho ther.
      Equivalent: Great minds think alike.
      French original: Les beaux esprits se rencontrient.
     
      o Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume.
     
      o Better be an old man's darling than a young man's slave.
     
      o in English translation: Big Corvette, small willie.
      - Meaning: A French-Canadian saying that pokes fun of men who drive big cars, suggesting they are compensating for having a short penis.
      - French original: Grosse Corvette, petite quequette.
     
      o A big nose never spoiled a handsome face.
     
     
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      o in English translation: Cold hands, warm heart.
      - French original: Mains froids, coeur chaud.
     
      o A covetous woman deserves a swindling gallant.
     
     
     
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      o The ear is the road to the heart.
     
      o "Even a very small degree of hope is enough to cause the birth of love." [Stendhal]
     
     
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      o Fair, good, rich and wise is a woman four stories high.
      Meaning: If a woman is not only rich and wise but is good-looking and nice to boot she is a true giant among women.
     
      o in English translation: Far from the eyes, far from the heart.
      - Meaning: Out of sight, out of mind.
      - French original: Loin des yeux, loin du coeur.
     
      o A fence makes love more keen.
     
      o A fool's heart dances on his lips.
     
      o Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow.
     
     
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      o The greatest hate springs from the greatest love.
     
     
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      o The handsomest woman can only give what she has.
     
      o in English translation: Happy at play, unhappy in love.
      Equivalent: Lucky in cards, unlucky in love.
      French original: Heureux au jeu, malheureux en amour.
     
      o The heart leads whither it goes.
     
      o in English translation (literally) The heart that sighs does not have what it desires.
      - French original: Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire.
     
     
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      o in English translation (literally): It's loving too much when one dies of it.
      - Meaning: They love too much who die for love.
      - French original: C'est trop aimer quand on en meurt.
     
      o In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.
     
     
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      o Life is never long enough for a coquette.
     
      o in English translation (literally): Look for the woman.
      - Meaning: A woman is probably at the heart of the quarrel.
      - French original: Cherchez la femme.
     
      o Love, a cough, smoke and money cannot long be hid.
     
      o Love teaches even asses to dance.
     
      o in English translation: Lucky in cards, unlucky in love.
      - French original: Heureux au jeu, malheureux en amour.
     
      o in English translation: Love and poverty do bad housework together.
      - French original: L'amour et la pouvrer font ensemble mauvais manage.
     
      o Love can be a violent emotion for some.
     
      o Love does much, but money does all.
     
      o Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
     
      o Love me, love my dog.
     
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      o The maxims of men disclose their hearts.
     
      o in French translation: The most beautiful girl in the world can only give as much as she has.
      - French original: La plus belle fille du monde ne peut donner que ce qu'elle a.
     
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      o Never choose your women or lien by candlelight.
     
      o in English translation: Never coward shall have fair lady for a friend.
      - Meaning: Faint heart never won fair lady.
      - French original: Jamais couard n'aura belle amie.
     
     
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      o in English translation: Often women change.
      - Equivalent: Women are fickle.
      - French original: Souvent femme varie.
     
      o in English translation: One always returns to his first love.
      - French original: On revient toujours a ses premieres amours.
     
     
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      o Pity is akin to love.
     
      o The pleasure of love lasts but a moment. The pain of love lasts a lifetime.
     
      o The prettiest girl in the world can only give what she has.
     
     
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      o The sole victory over love is flight.
     
      o in English translation: Stolen fruit is sweet.
      - English Equivalent: Forbidden fruit is the sweetest.
     
     
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      o in English translation (literally). That which a woman wishes, God wishes.
      - Meaning: A woman's will is God's will.
      - French original: Ce que femme veut, Dieu le veut.
     
      o in English translation (literally) There is more than one donkey at the fair called Martin.
      - English equivalent: There's plenty more fish in the sea.
      - French original: Il y a plus d'un ane a la foire qui s'appellent Martin or Tous les anes ne s'appellent pas Martin.
     
     
      o in English translation: There is no Jenny who does not find her donkey.
      - Meaning: every Jack has his Jill.
      - French original: Il n'y a pas d'anesse que ne trouve son ane.
     
      o There is one who kisses, and the other who offers a cheek.
     
      o "There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." [George Sands]
     
      o There never was a mirror that old a woman she was ugly.
     
      o in English translation: Those who look alike will get together.
      - English equivalent: Birds of a feather flock together.
      - French original: Qui se ressemble, s'assemble.
     
      o To love and to be wise are two different things.
     
      o To love is to choose.
     
      o Try to reason about love and you will lose your reason.
     
     
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      o Where there's music there can be love.
     
      o When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach.
     
      o With blows, love decays.
     
      o Without bread and wine even love will pine.
     
      o Who loves well is slow to forget.
     
      o in English translation: Who loves well, suffers well.
      - Meaning: If you love, you're bound to get hurt.
      - French original: Qui aim bien, chatie bien.
     
     
      o in English translation (literally) A woman laughs when she can and weeps when she wants.
      - French original: Femme rit quand elle peut et pleure quand elle veut.
     
      o Women, money and wine have their balm and their harm.
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German speaking countries
Date: Centuries-old
Notes: German Proverbs or Folk Sayings on Love
     
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      o in English translation: All cats are gray in the dark.
      - Meaning: At night all women are similar in the sack.
     
     
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      o A fence makes love more keen.
     
      o Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.
     
     
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      o A hug a day keeps the demons at bay.
     
     
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      o in English translation (literally): If you want to score, you have to know how to smile.
      - Meaning: If you keep this bad mood, you'll never find a girlfriend.
      - German original: Wer poppen will, mub lacheln konnen.
     
     
      o in English translation: In the night all cats are gray.
      - Meanings: Polite version: Used when explaining why you could not discern one thing from the other.
      - Impolite version: If it is late enough and I am drunk enough I don't care what my one-night-stand looks like.
      - German original: Bei nacht sind alle katzen grau.*
     
      * Note from Wikepedia
     
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      o "Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other." [Rainer Maria Rilke]
     
      o Love sees roses without thorns.
     
     
      O
     
      o in English translation: Old love does not rust.
      - English equivalent: Old flames never die.
      - German original: Alte liebe roster nicht.
     
      o in English translation: On old pots you learn cooking.
      - Meaning: Older women can teach you a lot in bed.
     
      o in English translation: Out of the eyes, out of the mind.
      - Meaning: Out of sight, out of mind.
     
      T
     
      o "There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." [Nietzsche]
     
      o in English translation: Two souls, one thought. Two hearts, one beat.
      - German original: Zqei seelen und ein gedank, zwei herzen, und ein schlag.
     
     
      W
     
      o A woman has the form of an angel, the heart of a serpent, and the mind of an ass.
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Date: 19th century
Notes: This entry contains British, French, Spanish and German proverbs about love and marriage. They were taken from the book, "Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages" classified by subject, arranged alphabetically, compiled by Robert Christy (New York: Putnam's Sons, 1887).
     
      LOVE
      1. A boy's love is water in a sieve. Spanish.
      2. A fence between makes love more keen. German.
      3. A man has choice to begin love but not to end it.
      4. A sweet and innocent compliance is the cement of love.
      5. All's fair in love and war.
      6. Always in love, never married.
      7. An oyster may be crossed in love. Sheridan.
      8. As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hatred.
      9. At love's perjuries Jove laughs.
      10. Be loving and you'll never want for love.
      11. Better a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. Solomon.
      12. Better to have loved amiss than nothing to have loved. Crabbe.
      13. Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die;" black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." Spanish.
      14. But Love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. Shakespeare.
      15. By beating love decays. French.
      16. Can a mouse fall in love with a cat?
      17. Cauld cools the love that kindles o'er hot.
      18. Cold broth hot again, that loved I never; Old love renewed again, that loved I ever.
      19. Congruity is the mother of love.
      20. Dry bread is better with love than a fat capon with fear.
      21. Esteem and love were never to be sold. Pope.
      22. Fanned fire and forced love never did well yet.
      23. Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
      24. For the love of the ox the wolf licks the yoke. Catalan.
      25. For love the wolf eats the sheep. German.
      26. For love of the nurse many kiss the bairn.
      27. Forced love does not last. Dutch.
      28. Fortune and love are blind.
      29. Generally we love ourselves more than we hate others.
      30. Hot love and hasty vengeance.
      31. He loves mutton well who eats the wool.
      32. He loves roast meat who'll licks the spit
      33. He loves thee well who makes thee weep. Dan Quixote,
      34. He loves well who chastises well.
      35. He loves well who never forgets. Italian. Sp.
      36. He that does not love a woman sucked a sow.
      37. He that falls in love with himself will find no rival. Franklin.
      38. He that hath love in his breast hath spurs in his heels.
      39. He that is in love bids adieu to prudence. La Fontaine,
      40. He that loves glass without a "g " take away the "I" and that is he.
      41. He who forces love where none is found, Remains a fool the whole year. Sp.
      42. He who loves himself best is the honestest man.
      43. He who loves well is slow to forget. Sp,
      44. He who loves well obeys well.
      45. He who would not be indolent let him fall in love. Ovid.
      46. Honor in love is silence. Massing.
     
      47. I cannot hate and I am forced to love. Ovid.
      48. I love my friends well but myself better. Fr.
      49. I love thee well but don't touch my pocket.
      50. I think his face is made of a fiddle; every one that looks on him loves him.
      51. If Jack's in love he's no judge of Gill's beauty.
      52. If you are in love fly to the mountain. Turk.
      53. If you love me, John, your acts will tell me so. Sp.
      54. If you love yourself over much, nobody else will love you at all.
      55. In hunting and in love you begin when you like and leave off when you can. Sp.
      56. In love's wars, he who flieth is conqueror.
      57. It is all one whether you die of sickness or love. Ital.
      58. It is loving too much to die of love. Fr.
      59. It is only the blind who ask why they are loved who are fair. Dan,
      60. Likeness is the mother of love.
      61. Love abounds in honey and poison. Plautus.
      62. Love, a cough, smoke, and money cannot long be hid. Fr., Ital., Gtr.
      63. Love accomplishes all things. Petrarch,
      64. Love all, trust a few, be false to none. Shaks.
      65. Love and faith are seen in works. Ger. For,
      66. Love and light cannot be hid.
      67. Love and lordship like no fellowship. Fr. ItaL, For.
      68. Love and poverty are hard to conceal. Dan.
      69. Love and pride stock bedlam.
      70. Love and religion are both stronger than friendship.
      71. Love alone begets love.
      72. Love asks faith and faith asks firmness.
      73. Love begets love ? confidence begets confidence. New York World,
      74. Love begins at home. Ger,
      75. Love, being jealous, makes a good eye look asquint.
      76. Love Bertram, love his dog. Fr.
      77. Love can make any place agreeable. Arabian,
      78. Love can neither be bought nor sold; its only price is love.
      79. Love comes in at the window and goes out at the door.
      80. Love conquers all things, let us yield to love. Virgil.
      81. Love deceives the best of womankind. Homer.
      82. Love delights in praise.
      83. Love despises gold.
      84. Love does much, but money does more.
      85. Love does much, money everything. Fr. Ger.
      86. Love does wonders but money makes marriage.
      87. Love expels jealousy.
      88. Love fears no danger. Ger.
      89. Love gives for guerdon jealousy, and broken faith. Italian.
      90. Love, grief and money cannot be kept secret. Sp
      91. Love grows with obstacles. Ger
      92. Love has no law. Par
      93. Love heats the brain and anger makes a poet. Juvenal.
      94. Love him who tells thee thy faults in private. Hebrew,
      95. Love in a hut with water and a crust. Is love, forgive us, cinders, ashes, dust.
      96. Love is a credulous thing. Ovid,
      97. Love is a leveller. Aaron Hill.
      98. Love is a sweet tyrant because the lover en dureth his torments willingly.
     
      99. Love is a thing full of anxious fears. Ovid,
      100. Love is an excuse for its own faults. Italian.
      101. Love is as strong as death, many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. Bible.
      102. Love is as warm among cottagers as courtiers.
      103. Love is better than fame. Bayard Taylor,
      104. Love is blind but sees afar. Italian.
      105. Love is cold without good eating and drinking. Syrus.
      106. Love is incompatible with fear. Syrus.
      107. Love is master of all arts.
      108. Love is never without jealousy.
      109. Love is not to be found in the market
      110. Love is potent but money is omnipotent. Fr.
      111. Love is strong as death, jealousy as cruel as the grave.
      112. Love is the. loadstone of love.
      113. Love is the touchstone of virtue.
      114. Love is the true price at which love is bought. Italian.
      115. Love is without prudence and anger without counsels. Italian.
      116. Love, knavery, and necessity make men good orators.
      117. Love knows hidden paths. Ger,
      118. Love knows no love. Por.
      119. Love knows no measure.
      120. Love knows not labor. Italian.
      121. Love laughs at locksmiths.
      122. Love levels all inequalities. Italian.
      123. Love lieth deep, love dwells not in lip depths. Tennyson,
      124. Love, like death, Levels all ranks and lays the shepherd's crook
      Beside the sceptre. Lytton.
      125. Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.
      126. Love makes labor light. Dutch.
      127. Love makes time pass away, and time makes love pass away. ' J*r,
      128. Love me little and love me long. Fr, Italian, Dan.
      129. Love me, love my dog. Italian.
      130. Love must be attracted by beauty of mind and body. Ovid.
      131. Love of gain turns wise men into fools. Chiruse.
      132. Love of lads and fire of chats is soon in and soon out. Derbyshire.
      133. Love one that does not love you, answer one that does not call you, and you will run a fruitless race. Sp.
      134. Love others well but love thyself the most. Give good for good but not to thine own cost. Dutch,
      135. Love rules his kingdom without a sword. Italian.
      136. Love rules without law. Italian.
      137. Love sees no faults.
      138. Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. Shaks.
      139. Love subdues everything, except the felon heart. Fr.
      140. Love teaches asses to dance. Fr.
      141. Love, thieves and fear make ghosts. Ger.
      142. Love thy friend with his foibles. M. Greek.
      143. Love thy neighbor but pull not down thy hedge. Ger,
      144. Love understands love; it needs no talk.
      145. Love warms more than a thousand fires.
      146. Love well, whip well.
      147. Love will creep where it cannot go.
      148. Love will find out the way.
     
      149. Love without return is like a question without an answer.
      150. Love yields to employment.
      151. Love's humility is love's pride. Bayard Taylor,
      152. Love's anger is fuel to love. Ger,
      153. Love's merchandise is broken faith. Ital,
      154. Love's plant must be watered with tears and tended with care. Dan,
      155. Love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
      156. Loving and singing are not to be forced. Ger.
      157. Luve your friend an' look to yourself.
      158. Mad love ! I for you and you for another. Sp,, For,
      159. Man loves but once. Ger.
      160. Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence. Byron,
      161. Next to love quietness.
      162. New loves drive out the old. Sp,
      163. No jealousy, no love. Ger.
      164. No love without bread and wine. Fr,
      165. No rose without a thorn, nor love without a rival. Turk,
      166. Of all the paths that lead to a woman's love pity's the straightest. Beaumont and Fletcher,
      167. Of soup and love the first is the best.
      168. Old love and old brands kindle at all seasons. Fr,
      169. Old love does not rust. Ger.
      170. One always returns to one's first love. Fr,
      171. One grows. used to love and to fire. Fr.
      172. One love drives out another. Sp,
      173. People in love think other people's eyes are out. Sp,
      174. Perfect love never settled in a light head.
      175. Reason was never admitted into the court of love.
      176. Regretting those you love is happiness compared with living with those you hate. La Bruyere.
      177. Royal favor, April weather, woman's love, rose leaves, dice, and card-luck change every moment. Ger.
      178. See for your love and buy for your money.
      179. Seek love and it will shun you, Haste away and 'twill outrun you.
      180. She who loves an ugly man thinks him handsome.
      181. Spectacles and gray hair are bad wares m love's market. Ger,
      182. Sweet is true love tho' given in vain, And sweet is death that puts an end to pain. Tennyson.
      183. The approaches of love must be resisted at the first assault lest they undermine at the second. Pythagoras,
      184. The course of true love never did run smooth.
      185. The English love, the French make love.
      186. The love of country is more powerful than reason itself. Ovid.
      187. The love of fame usually spurs the mind. Ovid.
      188. The love of father and mother is the foundation Of all the virtues.
      189. The love of gaming is the worst of ills. Young.
      190. The love of heaven makes one heavenly. Sidney.
      191. The love of liberty is the parent of all vagabondam.
      192 The love of money grows as money grows. Juvenal.
      193 The love of self increases with the self. Juvenal.
      194 The love of popularity holds you in a vice. Juvenal.
      195. The love of power is an instinct of the human heart. Tacitus.
      196. The love of power is natural, insatiable and never cloyed by possession. Bolingbroke.
      197. The love of the wicked is more dangerous I than their hatred.
      198. The man who loves is easy of belief. Ovid.
      199. The only victory over love is flight. Fr.
      200. The remedy for love is ? land between. Sp.
      201. The revolution that turns us all topsy-turvy ? the revolution of love.
      202. The reward of love is jealousy.
      203. The sweetest joy, the wildest woe, is love. Bailey.
      204. The truth of truths is love. Bailey.
      205. Their (women's) love is always with the lover past.
      206. There are more calamities in the world arising from love than hatred. Spectator.
      207. There are no reasons that explain love, but a thousand that explain marriage. Punch.
      208. There is beggary in the love that can be reckoned. Shaks.
      209. There is more true happiness in the folly of love than in all the wisdom of philosophy. Fielding.
      210. There is no love without jealousy. Fr. Italian.
      211. They love least that let men know their love. Shaks.
      212. They love me for little that hate me for naught.
      213. They love most who are least valued.
      214. They love too much that die for love.
      215. They that lie down for love should rise for hunger.
      216. Though love is blind yet 'tis not for want of eyes.
      217. 'Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all.
      218. To be loved, be lovable.
      219. To be wise and love Exceeds man's might, that dwells with gods
      alone. Shaks.
      220. To love and to be wise are two different things (or impossible). Fr. Sp. Pbr.
      221. To love it as a dog does a whip.
      222. To love it as a cat does mustard.
      223. To love it as the devil does holy water.
      224. To raise esteem we must benefit others ; to
      procure love we must please them. Dr, Johnson,
      225. Too much is not enough. Beaumarchais speaking of love,
      226. True love can fear no one.
      227. True love falters not.
      228. True love never grows hoary. Italian.
      229. True love suffers no concealment. Sp,
      230. We never know how much we loved till what we loved is lost.
      231. What is life when wanting love? Bums,
      232. When all else fails, love saves. Anna K. Green.
      233. When love fails we espy all faults.
      234. When love is in the case the doctor's an ass.
      235. When mistrust enters, love departs. Dan,
      236. When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window. Ger.
      237. When pride begins love ceases. Laval.
      238. Where love is there is no labor, and if there be labor, the labor is loved. St. Austin.
      239. Where love is, there the eye is.
      240. Where there is great love there is great pain. Ital.
      241. Where there is much love there is much mistake.
      242. Where there is no love all faults are seen. Ger.
      243. Where there is no jealousy there is no love. Ger
      244. Where there is not equality there can be no perfect love.
      245. Where we do not respect we soon cease to love.
      246. Who ever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight?
      247. Who feels love in his breast feels a spur in his limbs.
      248. Who has no children does not know what love is.
      249. Who love too much hate in like extreme. Homer.
      250. Who loves believes, who loves fears. Italian.
      251. Who loves not women, wine and song, Remains a fool his whole life long. Ger.
      252. Who loves the tree, loves the branch. Italian.
      253. Who loves well chastises well. Fr. Italian
      254. Who loves well is slow to forget. Fr.
      255- Who would be loved must love. Italian.
      256. Whom we love best to them we can say least.
      257. With lightning and with love, the clothes sound the heart burned. Sp.
      258. With nothing left to love there's naught to dread. Byron.
      259. Without bread and wine, even love will pine. Fr,
      260. Works and not words are the proof of love. Sp.
      261. You will not be loved if you think of no one but yourself. Sp. Italian.
     
      LOVER
      I. A cold lover is a faithless friend. Italian.
      2. A lover's anger is short lived.
      3. A lover's soul lives in the soul of his mistress.
      4. A reserved lover makes a suspicious husband.
      5. All are fools or lovers first or last.
      6. All mankind love a lover. Emerson.
      7. An incensed lover shuts his eyes, And tells himself many lies. Syrus.
      8. As is the lover so is the beloveds Ital,
      9. Bagdad is not remote for a lover. Turk.
      10. Every lover is a soldier. Ovid.
      11. For the lover travel and patience. Turk.
      12. In her first passion woman loves her lover, In all others, all she loves is love. Byron,
      13. Love but laughs at lovers' perjury. Dryden,
      14. Let him not be a lover who has no courage. Italian.
      15. Lover and king brook no companion. Turk.
      16. Lovers are fools. Latin.
      11, Lovers break not hours unless to come before their time.
      18. Lovers ever run before the clock.
      19. Lovers live by love as larks by leeks.
      20. Lovers' purses are tied with cobwebs. Italian.
      21. Lovers' quarrels are love redoubled.
      22. Lovers remember everything. Ovid.
      23. Lovers think others blind. Italian. Sp.
      24. Old lover, young fool. Ger,
      25. Quarrels of lovers but renew their love.
      26. Sapient, Solitary, Solicitous and Secret are the four S's that all true lovers should possess. Don Quixote,
      27. The conversation of lovers is inexhaustible. Bea.
      28. The lover in the husband may be lost.
      29. The oaths of one that loves a woman are not to be believed. Sp.
     
      30. The prostrate lover when he lowest lies, But stoops to conquer, but kneels to rise.
      31. The reason why lovers are never weary of one another is this, they are always talking of themselves. Rochefoucauld.
      32. The sight of lovers feeds those in love. Shaks.
      33. The soul of a lover lives in the body of another. Cato.
      34. There is more pleasure in loving than in being loved.
      35. What law can bind lovers? Love is their supreme law. Boethius.
      36 What woman says to her fond lover, should be written on air or the swift water. Catullus.
      37. Who can deceive a lover? Virgil.
      38. Whom I love I beat. Russian.
      39. You must make a lover angry, if you wish him to love. Syus.
     
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Date: Centuries-old
Notes: The following list of proverbs about love and marriage was taken from the book, "CLASSICAL AND FOREIGN QUOTATIONS, LAW TERMS AND MAXIMS, PROVERBS, MOTTOES, PHRASES, AND EXPRESSIONS FRENCH, GERMAN, GREEK, ITALIAN, LATIN, SPANISH, AND PORTUGUESE" [selected] by WM. FRANCIS HENRY KING (LONDON: WHTTAKER and SONS, 1889)
     
      61. Adam muss eine Eva haben, die er zeiht was er gethan.
      (G.) Prov.
      in English: Adam must have an Eve, to blame for what he has done.
     
      167. A la chandelle la chevre semble demoiselle. (Fr.) Prov.
      in English: By candle-light the goat looks like a young lady.
     
      209. Alles ware gut, war kein Aber dabei. (G.) Prov.
      in English: Everything would be right if it were not for " Buts."
     
      231. Amantium irae amoris integratio'st. (L.) Ter. And. 3, 3, 23.
      in English: Lovers' quarrels are only a renewal of their love.
     
      233. Amare autem nihil aliud est, nisi eum ipsum diligere,
      quern ames, nulla indigentia, nulla utilitate qusesita.
      (L.) Cic. Am. 27, 100.
      in English: To love is nothing else than to hold in high esteem the object of your affection, apart from all compulsion and all question of advantage.
     
      234. Amare simul et sapere vix Jovi conceditur. (L.) Laber.
      in English: To be in love, and at the same time to be wise, is scarcely given even to Jove himself.
     
      248. English: She dreams of love while yet a child, lit., while her nails are still soft. " Fresh from the nursery." Calverley.
     
      261. Amor et melle et felle est fecundissimus. (L.) Plaut. Cist.
      in English: Love is a thing most fruitful both in honey and in gall. A mixture of sweet and bitter.
     
      267. Amour fait moult, ai'gent fait tout. (Fr.) Prov.
      in English; Love can do much, money everything.
     
      268. Amour, tous les autres plaisirs Ne valent pas tes peines. (V.) Charleval
      in English: Love, thy pains are worth more than all other pleasures.
     
      316. Aperit prsecordia Liber. (Z.) Hor. S. 1, 4, 89.
      in English: Wine opens the heart.
     
      419. Audax ad omnia foeimna, quae vel amat vel odit. (L.)
      in English: A woman will dare anything, when she loves or hates.
     
      447. Aut amat, aut odit mulier; nil est tertium. (L.) Pub. Syr. 1
      in English: A woman either loves or hates; there is no alternative.
     
      539. Bonum est, pauxillum amare sane, insane non bonum est. (L.) Plaut. Cure. 1, 3, 20.
      in English: It is good to be moderately and wisely in love; to be madly in love is not good.
     
      628. Cedit amor rebus, res age, tutus eris. (L.) Ov. R. A. 144.
      in English: Love gives way to matters of business, be busily occupied and you will be safe.
     
      754. Cceur content soupire souvent. (Fr.) Prov. A satisfied
      heart will often sigh. The cross proverb says : Ceur qui
      soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. in English: The heart that sighs has not got what it desires.
     
      967. Da populo, da verba mihi, sine nescius errem;
      Et liceat stulte credulitate frui. (L.) Ov. Am. 3, 14, 29.
      in English: To a faithless mistress.
      Pray undeceive me not, nor let
      Me know that I mistaken be.
      I would a little longer yet
      Enjoy my fond credulity. Ed.
     
      977. Das Leben ist die Liebe
      Und des Lebens Leben Geist. (G.) Goethe, Westost-
      licher Divan. in English: Life is love, and the life of Life, Spirit.
     
      1083. Der Mensch liebt nur einmaL (G.) Prov. in English: Man only loves once.
     
      1173. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem,
      Difficile est ; verum hoc qualubet efficias.
      (L.) Cat. 76, 13. in English: 'Tis hard to quit at once long-cherished love; 'Tis hard ; set somehow you'll successful prove. Ed.
     
      1283. Du moment qu'on aime, On devient si doux. (-V.)
      Marmontel (Zemire et Azor). in English: The moment one is in
      love, one becomes so amiable.
     
      1366. En amour comme en amitie Un tiers sou vent nous embar-
      rasse. {Fr.) 1 in English: A third person is often in the way in love as well as in friendship.
     
      1524. Excepto quod non simul esses, csetera laetus. (L.) 1 in English: With the exception that you were not with me, I was otherwise happy.
     
      2112. II n'est pas d'homme necessaire. (Fr.)1 in English: There is no such thing as a necessary man. The best servant of the state can be replaced.
     
      2120. (Fr.) Breton Prov. The worst shoe will find its
      match.
     
      2183. In amore haec sunt mala, bellum,
      Pax rursum : hsec si quis tempestatis prope ritu
      Mobilia et caeca fluitantia sorte laboret
      Reddere certa sibi, nibilo plus explicet, ac si
      Insanire paret certa ratione modoque.
      (L.) Hor. S. 2, 3, 267. in English: Now love is such a thing, the more's the shame, First war, then peace, 'tis never twice the same ; For ever heaving like a sea in storm,
      And taking every hour some different form. You think to fix it Why, the job's as bad. As if you tried by method to be mad. Conington.
     
      2434. Je t'aime d'autant plus que je t'estime moins. {Fr.) Colle", Cocatrix. in English: Love you all the more that I respect you but little.
     
      2565. L'amour apprend aux anes a danser. (Fr.) Prov. in English: Love teaches even asses to dance.
     
      2566. L'amour de la justice n'est, en la plus part des hommes, que la crainte de souffrir l'injustice. (Fr.) La Rochef. Max. 78, p. 41. in English: The love of justice in the majority of mankind, is nothing else than the dread of suffering injustice from others.
     
      2567. L'amour est le roman du cceur,
      Et le plaisir en est l'histoire. (Fr.) M. de Bievre. in English: Love is the heart's romance, pleasure is its history.
     
      2568. L'amour et la fume'e ne peuvent se cacher. (-^V.) Prov. in English: Love and smoke cannot be hid.
     
      2569. L'amour-propre est le plus grand de tous les flatteurs. (Fr.) 1 in English: Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
     
      2570. L'amour-propre offense* ne pardonne jamais. (Fr.) Vige*e, Aveux Diff. in English: Wounded self-love never forgives.
     
      2571. L'amour soumet la terre, assujetit les cieux,
      Les rois sont a ses pieds, il gouverne les dieux.
      (Fr.) Corn. 1 in English: Love conquers the earth, and Love conquers the sky, Kings lie at his feet, and the Gods own his sway. Ed.
     
      2666. Le droit est au plus fort en amour comme en guerre,
      Et la femme qu'on aime aura toujours raison.
      (Fr.) A. de Musset, Idylle. in English: In love, as in war, 'tis the strongest that wins,
      And the woman I worship will always be right. Ed.
     
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Date: Centuries-old
Notes: The following list of folk sayings and proverbs about love, marriage and family relationships was taken from the book, "Aphorisms of Wisdom: or, a Complete Collection of the Most Celebrated Proverbs in the English, Scotch, French, Spanish, Italian, and other languages: Ancient and Modern," collected by Thomas V. Fuller, M.D., (GLASGOW: (R. & D. MALCOLM, 1814).
     
      A maid that laughs is half taken.
     
      A match, quoth John, when he kissed his dame.
     
      A young whore, an old saint.
     
      All flowers are not in one garland.
     
      As love thinks no evil, so envy speaks no good.
     
      Better a blush in the face, than a spot in the heart.
     
      Beauty draws more than oxen.
     
      Beauty in women is like the flowers in the spring; but
      virtue is like the stars of Heaven.
     
      Beauty is no inheritance.
     
      Beauty is potent, but money is more potent.
     
      Beauty is soon blasted.
     
      Beauty is the subject of a blemish.
     
      Beauty may have fair leaves, yet bitter fruit.
     
      Beauty will buy no beef.
     
      Beauty without virtue is a curse.
     
      Beauties without fortunes have sweethearts plenty, but
      husbands none at all.
     
      Enter upon love when you will, but give over when you can.
     
      Every heart hath its own ache.
     
      Every one as they like, fast the woman said when she kissed her cow.
     
      Every one can keep house better than her mother, till she trieth.
     
      Fair Faces need no paint.
     
      Generally we love ourselves more than we hate others.
     
      Happy is he who hath sowed his wild oats betimes.
     
     
     
      He kissed and stabbed at the same time.
     
      Hearts may agree though heads differ.
     
      Hot love is soon cold.
     
      Hours of pleasure are short.
     
      How can the cat help it, if the maid be a fool?
     
      I love you well, but touch not my pocket.
     
      I will not touch her with a pair of tongs.
     
      If you love me pray make it appear.
     
      If you love yourself too much, nobody else will love you
      at all.
     
      If you make Bacchus your god, Apollo will not keep you
      company.
     
      In love's wars, he who fleeth is conqueror.
     
      Love and madness judge of things much alike.
     
      Love and please will make a man speak at both ends.
     
      Love comes in at the window and flies out at the door.
     
      Love does much, but money does more.
     
      Love is as mad as Ajax, it kills sheep, so it kills me.
     
      Love is the loadstone of love.
     
      Love is wont rather to ascend than descend.
     
      Love lives more in cottages than courts.
     
      Love me little and love me long.
     
      Love me, love my dog.
     
      Love me more, and honour me less.
     
      Love never desires a partner.
     
      Love of wit makes no man rich.
     
      Love requires boldness and scorns bashfulness.
     
      Love sees no faults.
     
      Love, the itch, and a cough, cannot be hid.
     
      Love thy neighbour, but cut not up thy hedge for him.
     
      Love weeping burns.
     
      Love will creep where it cannot go.
     
      Lovers complain of their hearts, but the distemper is in
      their heads.
     
      Maidens should be seen, and not heard.
     
      Passion joined with power, produceth thunder and ruin.
     
      Passion maketh a man a beast, but wine maketh him worse.
     
      Passionate men like fleet hounds are apt to over-run the scent.
     
      Passionate people lay up no malice.
     
      Perfect love never settled in a light head.
     
      Play, women, and wine undo men laughing.
     
      The end of passion is the beginning of repentance.
     
      Though love is blind, yet 'tis not for want of eyes.
     
      Those that are in love, think other people's eyes out.
     
      Under the blanket, the black one is as good as the white.
     
      Under the flowers are thorns.
     
      Unknown, unkissed.
     
      Where passion is high, there reason is low.
     
      Where the heart is past hope, the face is past shame.
     
     
      Where there is much love there is much mistake.
     
      Where there is no love all are faults.
     
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Date: Centuries-old
Notes: This enty contains proverbs and folk sayings about love and marriage first published in "A BOOK OF QUOTATIONS PROVERBS AND HOUSEHOLD WORDS, a Collection of Quotations from British and American Authors, Ancient and
      Modem; with many Thousands of Proverbs, Familiar Phrases and Sayings, from all sources, including Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and other Languages" by W. GURNEY BENHAM (PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY & London: CASSELL & Company, 1907).
     
     
      A earless hussy makes many thieves. (E. Sc.)
     
      A cold hand, a warm heart.
     
      A fair face may hide a foul heart.
     
      A fair skin often covers a crooked mind.
     
      A fair face is half a portion. (E.)
     
      A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread. (G. H.)
     
      A man is known to be mortal by two things ? sleep and lust. (G. H.)
     
      Love does much, money does all. ? (Old Fr.)
     
      Better a blush on the face than a spot on
      the heart.
     
      Faults are thick when love is thin. (R.)
     
      Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. (R.)
     
      Friendship is love without its wings.
     
      Gaming, women, and wine, while they
      laugh they make men pine. (G. H.)
     
      It is not the most beautiful women whom
      men love most.
     
      Love, and smoke cannot be hid. ? {Fr.)
     
      Love and a sneeze can't be hid.
     
      Love and a red nose cannot be hid. ? {Holcroft)
     
      True love endures no concealment. ? {Span.)
     
      Love and poverty are hard to hide.
     
      Love and business teach eloquence. (G. H.)
     
      Love and lordship like no fellowship. (B.)
     
      Love asks faith, and faith firmness. (G.H.)
     
      Love being jealous makes a good eye look asquint. (B.)
     
      Love makes a good eye squint. (G. H.)
     
      Love betters what is best.
     
      Love does much, but money does more.
     
      Love can do much, gold can do everything. ? (Germ.)
     
      Love makes passion, but money makes marriage. ? (Jr.)
     
      Love has no luck. (B. Sc.)
     
      Love is blind. (E.)
     
      Love is not found in the market. (G. H.)
     
      Love is not what it used to be.
     
      Love is the true price of love. (G. H.)
     
      Love lives in cottages as well as in courts. (B.)
     
      Love makes all hearts gentle. (G. H.)
     
      Love makes one fit for any work. (G. H.)
     
      Love me little, love me long. (H.,- 1546.)
     
      Love me little, love me long.
     
      Is the burden of my song. ?{Ballad, c. 1570.)
     
      Love me, love my dog. (H., 1546.)
     
      Love rules without a sword.
     
      Love binds without a cord.
     
      Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
     
      Love will make an ass dance.
     
      Love without return is like a question
      without an answer.
     
      Love your neighhour, yet pull not down
      your hedge.
     
      Love's fire, once out, is hard to kindle.
     
      Lovers live by love as larks by leeks. (E.)
     
      Lovers' purses are tied with cobwebs.
     
      Man loves only once.
     
     
      Many kiss the child for the nurse's sake (E.)
     
      Measure men round the heart.
     
      Old loves and old brands kindle at all seasons.? (Fr.)
     
      The soul is not where it lives, but where
      it loves.
     
      The soul needs few things, the body many. (G. H.)
     
      The sow loves bran better than roses.
     
      There is no true love without jealousy.
     
      They love most who are least valued
     
      They who love most are least set by. (R.)
     
      They love too much that die for love. (E.)
     
      They that tease each other, love each other. (Germ.)
     
      Old love does not rust.? (Germ.)
     
      In war, hunting, and love, men for one
      pleasure a thousand griefs prove. (G. H.)
     
      Hunting, hawking, paramours, for are joy
      a hundred displeasures. (B. Be.)
     
      When love cools, our faults are seen. (Sc.)
     
      Where there is no love, all are faults.
     
      When love fails, we espy all faults. (R.)
     
      Love comes in at the windows and goes out
      at the doors. (R.)
     
      When misfortuue enters the house, love flies out.? (Germ.)
     
      When poverty comes in by the door, love flies out
      by the window. (Ger.)
     
      When the heart is afire some sparks will
      fly out at the mouth.
     
      Whom we love best to them we can say
      least. (E.)
     
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Corsica
Date: Centuries-old
Notes: Italian Proverb or Folk Saying on Love -- Corsica
     
      o in Italian: (Dialect) Bellezza un si ne magna.
      o in English: (Literally) Beauty can't be eaten. (Meaning) Good looks won't do you any good when you're hungry.
     
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Corsica
Date: Centuries-old
Notes: Italian Proverb or Folk Saying on Love -- Corsica
     
      o in Italian: (Dialect) Ne spaziale ne uttore [dottore] po guari u mal d'amore.
      o in English: (Literally) Neither space nor a doctor can help you recover from a bad love affair. (Meaning) There's no cure for heartache -- neither a doctor nor time and distance will do you any good.
     
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