BLINDESS of LOVE

• Love is blind.
• If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
• Love sees no faults.
• In the eyes of the love, pock-marks are dimples.
• No love is foul, nor prison fair.

• A man may woo where he will, but he will wed where his hap is.
• Happy is the wooing that is not long a-doing.
• Sunday's wooing draws to ruin.
• To woo is a pleasure in a young, a fault in an old.
• When petticoats woo, breeks may come speed. [A reference to women courting men].
• We attract hearts by the qualities we display ;

We retain them by the qualities we possess.

• Falling in love is awfully simple, but falling out is simply awful.
• Falling in love is exactly that ... Falling. You don't have much control over it.
• Love is the only game not called on the account of darkness.
• The love of the wicked is more dangerous than their hatred.
• They love too much that die for love.

• "It smells like fish but it taste like chicken"
• Love is full of fear.
• When love puts in, friendship is gone.

• Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness.
• Where love is, there is faith.
• Where there is no trust, there is no love.
• Love is not an emotion, it is a series of actions. Therefore, you tell me, do I love you?

• Fear is stronger than love.
• Of soup and love, the first is the best.
• 'Sweet-heart' and 'Honey-bird' keeps no house.

• Love being jealous, makes a good eye look asquint.
• Love is never without jealousy.
• Love and Lordship like no fellowship. [This proverb may be interpreted in two ways; that neither love nor lordship will tolerate a rival, or that love and lordship are not compatible. The first interpretation applies here].

• Love does much, money does everything.
• Love is grand.  Divorce is 20 grand.
• Love lasts as long as money endures.
• Money is the sinews of love as well as of war.
• When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.
• Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.
• Love is the only gold.

• The new love drives out the old love.
• One love expels another.
• It is best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new.
• As good love comes as goes.
• Many a heart is caught in the rebound.

• Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
• A good wife always laughs at her husbands jokes, not because they are

clever, but because she is. - 
• All's fair in love and war.
• A partner walks with you along life's path, knowing that no matter how difficult the way, you will be given faith, and helps you to believe.
• A smart husband always buys his wife the finest china money can buy, that way she is always afraid to let him help drying the dishes.
• Go to your bosom, knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
• In a single moment, love blossems ... and flowers forever.
• In the war of love, there leaves neither winner nor loser.
• It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
• Love and time - those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.
• Love at first sight.
• Love by its presence makes everything not necessarily clear or right or very good, but acceptable. Whereas in its absence, there is no hope.
• Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace. [German proverb]
• Love comes in a window and goes out at the door.
• Loving comes by looking.
• Love does not consist in gaing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
• Love doesn't just sit there, like stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. - Ursula K. Le Guin
• Love grows with obstacles.
• Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.
• Love is a false pretense used to damage our hearts and make us strong enough to live in this messed up society we call man-kind.
• Love is a feeling about which not say words.
• Love is a dream; but after one kiss one awakens to find it the truth.
• Love is a fabric that nature wove and fantasy embroidered.
• Love is a fire which burns unseen.
• Love is a flower of which love is the honey.
• Love is a game that two can play and both win.
• Love is a mysterious force.
• Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost
• Love is and attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-datachment-a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh; the result is the same: you forget yourself.
• Love is a state of mind that begins when you think life can't get much

better, and ends when you think life can't get much worse.
• Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endures his torment willingly.
• Love is a tyranny, because the lover endures his/her torment willingly.
• Love is Love and this is beautiful feeling.
• Love is neither bought nor sold.
• Love is not something that can be described in words.
• Love is part of human nature; it is written upon the soul; it cannot be erased.
• Love is to sit quitely at the keyboard, sharing feelings with the world.
• Love is undefinable.  One can only know what it is when they are feeling

an emotion that they can't expalin exactly how they feel inside.
• Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind.
• Love makes obedience easy.
• Love not at first sight.
• Love rules without a sword and bind without a cord. It's love that makes obedience easy.
• Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. - Shakespeare
• Love understands love; it needs no talk.
• Love warms more than thousand fires.
• Love we little, love we long. - Heywood (1497-1580)
• One in love fears no storm; he fears only the death of love.
• One's love to another is a personal expression of an even larger consciousness of love.
• One-sided love is not the normal love.
• Sound love is not soon forgotten.
• The course of true love never did run smooth.
• The greatest hate springs from the greatest love.
• The heart that once trully loves never forgets.
• The supreme conviction happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
• True love is like ghosts .. many talk about it, but few have seen it
• Two things only a man cannot hide : that he is drunk and that he is in love.
• When a woman loves a man, the long lashes of her eyes fan the fires of his heart to blame.
• Without respect, love cannot go far. - A. Dumas (1802-1870)

• It is a dear collop that is cut of thine own flesh. [A "collop" is a slice, here referring to one's offspring]
• A mother's love never ages.
• A mother's love is best of all.
• No love to a father's.
• Love the babe for her that bare it. [The implication of this and the next two proverbs is that if a man loves a woman, he must also love her children]
• If you love the boll, you cannot hate the branches.
• He that loves the tree, loves the branches.

• Lovers' quarrels are soon mended.
• The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love.
• Love laughs at lovers' perjuries.
• Biting and scratching is Scots folk's wooing.

• Cold pudding will settle your love.
• Time, not the mind, puts an end to love.
• In love's wars, he who flies is conqueror. [The implication is that the only remedy for love is to run away]
• No herb will cure love.

• All is fair in love and war.
• If you love something set it free, if it comes back to you its yours, if it doesn't it never was.
• Love is a game in which both players always cheat.
• Love me, love my dog. [The implication is that in loving a person, one must also love those who are close to him]

• If we knew the world would end tomorrow, we wouldnt hesitate to reveal our love.  But why not now?  Fear.  It tries to block love, yet it truly cannot, because it is not real and love is!  If love is there, why not reveal it? -B. Duddleston
• Love speaks, even when the lips are closed.
• Next to love, quietness.
• When love is greatest, words are fewest.
• Whom we love best, to them we can say least.

• All that is in the heart is written on the face. - Proverb
• Congruity is the mother of love.
• Likeness causes liking.
• Looks breed love.
• Love begets love.
• Love is the loadstone of love.
• Love is the true reward of love.
• Love needs no teaching.
• Love is not foud in the market.
• Love is the fruit of idleness.
• The heart has it's reasons which reason does not know at all.
• Love is in the giver, not the gift.
• When friendship found us, it decided, on forever.

• Love delights in praise.
• Scorn at first makes after-love the more.
• He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin.
• Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee.
• The last suitor wins the maid.
• He that woos a maid, must seldom come in the sight; but he woos a widow must woo her day and night.
• Puddings and paramours should be hotly handled. [The implication is that neither puddings nor love should be allowed to grow cold]
• "Do you believe in love at first sight, or should I walk by again?"

• He that doer not love a woman, sucked a sow.
• Love and leprosy few escape. - Chinese proverb
• Old love does not rust.
• Sound love is not soonforgotten.
• True love never grows old.
• Love will creep where it may not go. [This implication is that love will always do what little it can to help]
• Love without end has no end. [This implies that true love will last forever, whereas false love, which has a particular aim in view, will fade as soon as its goal is attained]
• Love shatters all fetters !  Love is not a noun; it is a verb ! Love is the universal language ! Put love in everything you say and do !

• Love is without reason.
• Love is lawless.
• Affection blinds reason.
• No folly to being in love.
• One cannot love and be wise.
• Lovers are madmen.
• What is there to live for....except DEATH. What is there to hope for....except LOVE. - Mary Charlotte O. Fresco

• If we do not have the good we desire, it is because we are pushing it away.
• Love without return is like a question without an answer.
• There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

• Love is a sweet torment.
• Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of seperation! - Jose Marti Y Perez
• Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending.
• Never rely on love or the weather.
• Of honey and gall in love there is store.
• Our love is growing, so I don't mind watering it occasionally with a few tears. - Ashleigh Brilliant
• The course of true love never did run smooth. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Midsummer Night's Dream
• Through all the tears of pain and sorrow, your the only one I wish to remember. - Elisabeth Eleanor Anderson
• War, hunting, and love are as full of trouble as pleasure.

• All shall be well, Jack shall have Jill.
• All the world loves a lover.
• A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.
• A penny-weight of love is worth a pound of law.
• Faults are thick where love is thin.
• He that has love in his breast, spurs in his sides.
• In love is no lack.
• Labour is light where love doth pay.
• Love and a cough cannot be hid.
• Love and business teach eloquence.
• Love and poverty are hara to hode.
• Love cannot be compelled.
• Love conquers all.
• Love covers many infirmities.
• Love is as strong as death. - Song of Solomon 8:6
• Love is free.
• Love is something so positive, so strong, so real, that it is impossible for one who loves to take back that feeling as it is to take his own life. -Vincent van Gogh
• Love is the touchstone of virtue.
• Love laughs at locksmiths.
• Love locks no cupboards.
• Love makes one fit for any work.
• Love means never having to say you're sorry. [From movie "The Love Story" - Erich Segal]
• 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. [Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) In Memoriam. The basic sentiment of this now proverbial quotation was first expressed many centuries earlier]
• Love makes the world go round.
• Love makes all men equal.
• Love makes a wit of the fool.
• Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
• Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
• Love will find a way.
• Love will go through stone walls.
• Only where the heart is can the treasure be found. - James Barrie
• Perfect love casteth out fear. - I. John 4:18
• That which is loved is always beautiful. - Norwegian Proverb
• To be beloved is above all bargains.
• True love kythes in time of need. ["Kythes" means "shows itself"]
• Where love fails, we espy all faults.

• Calf love, half love; old love, cold love.
• Love of lads and fire of chats is soon in and soon out.
• Lad's love's a busk of broom, hot awhile and soon done.
• No love like the first love.
• Love, the perfect virtue, flawness by nature, is often refused to the teenager. "We do not know what love is". We do. Every teenager knows how much they loved by how deeply they hurt when the relationship was over.