Famous Love Messages

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

- By Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

• Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
  - By Rose Franken
  
• A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
  A song is no song 'til you sing it,
  And love in your heart
  Wasn't put there to stay - By
  Love isn't love
  'Til you give it away.
  - By Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"
  (Thanks, Krystel)
  
• Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
  - By Henry Van Dyke
  
• Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
  - By Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975
  
• Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
  - By Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain, 1922