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- Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)
- Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), 'The Pilgrim's Regress'
- One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
- Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
- Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.
- Stella Benson
- Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
- Dinah Shore (1917 - 1994)
- Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.
- Karl von Bonstetten
- Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), 'Poor Richard's Almanack,' June 1746
- One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
- Alexander A. Bogomoletz
- When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
- Alice Hoffman, 'Here on Earth'
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