Laugh-feb2014

For Valentine’s Day: The Wisdom (and humour) of Love

By Ian Clarke

Who, being loved, is poor?

Oscar Wilde

Without Valentine’s Day, February would be… well, January.

Jim Gaffigan

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Pablo Picasso

True love is like ghosts which everybody talks about and few have seen.

La Rochefoucauld

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Anais Nin

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Dr. Seuss

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Khalil Gibran

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Blaise Pascal