My annual love column: Here’s a selection of quotes—funny, poignant and sweet—to honor the month of love.
Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet service to see who they really are.
—Will Ferrell
Love: the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
—Mark Twain
Love is a lot like a backache: it doesn’t show up on X-rays, but you know it’s there.
—George Burns
I love you with all my belly. I would say heart, but my belly’s bigger.
—Anonymous
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
—Charles Dickens
Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs.
—William Shakespeare
Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.
—Carroll Bryant
Being deeply loved gives you strength. Loving deeply gives you courage.
—Lao Tzu
Who, being loved, is poor?
—Oscar Wilde
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
—Henry Miller
My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don’t really know me.
—Garry Shandling
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
—Henry David Thoreau
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
—Oscar Wilde
I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
—Rita Rudner
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
—Leo Tolstoy
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
—William Faulkner
Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
—Mahatma Gandhi
The brain is the most outstanding organ. It works 24/7, 365 from birth until you fall in love.
—Sophie Monroe
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
—Plato
