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著名经典短语70条Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.Alan WattsTo love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.Anne-Sophie SwetchineTo fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19Love 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)Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in PeanutsTo love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.David ViscottSometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs.and jerk the heck out of you.Denise Dobbs, Northern Exposure, Survival of the Species, 1993Marriage is the union of disparate elements. Male and female. Yin and yang. Proton and electron. What are we talking about here? Nothing less than the very tension that binds the universe. You see, when we look at marriage, people, were are looking at creation itself. I am the sky, says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. You are the earth. We are sky and earth united. You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Our Wedding, 1992Theres a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993They didnt need men because they had each other, a significant other. It doesnt matter if the cats in pants or pedal-pushers. I dont think were supposed to fly solo.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Lucky People, 1995Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Roumania.Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), CommentWhen love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness.Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Medea, 431 B.C.There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), On Reading and WritingIve been thinking about that old Zen conundrum: whats the sound of one hand clapping? My personal opinion-nothing. You dont have two hands, you dont have any clapping. Its as simple as that. Stars, galaxies, clapping hands, whats the point? The point is that we all need somebody, whether youre a supercluster or a little proton, a yin or a yang. Everybody is hooked into everybody else.Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasnt all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991There is no remedy for love but to love more.Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, July 25, 1839Just because you love someone doesn抰 mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.Ice T, The Ice OpinionLove is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger AbbeyFriendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger AbbeyI cannot think well of a man who sports with any womans feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield ParkI pay very little regard.to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield ParkThe enthusiasm of a womans love is even beyond the biographers.Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield ParkLove is, above all, the gift of oneself.Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987)Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.Jeanne MoreauMarriage. Why do we do it? Everybody knows the stats. One in two marriages end up in broken dishes and a trip to Tijuana. Is it loneliness? Partly. Is it teamwork? Definitely. Things just kind of go easier when theres two of you. One of you can wait in line at the movie theater while the other guy parks the car. Get better seats that way. Better room rate when its a double. Are you ready to file jointly?.Above you is the sun and sky. Below you, the ground. Like the sun, your love should be constant, like the ground, solid.Jed Seidel, Northern Exposure, I Feel The Earth Move, 1994Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I dont feel anything now?Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.John SheffieldGravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, theres not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?Josh Brand and John Falsey, Northern Exposure, The Pilot, 1990How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, Belatedly Yours, January 2004To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.Karen SundeHonesty is the only way with anyone, when youll be so close as to be living inside each others skins.Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campain, 1999When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campain, 1999Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.Lynda BarryTo be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we dont want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.Madonna (1958 - ), O Magazine, January 2004Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-15-04I thought I loved him, but I really just needed him. There was so much death and when I was in bed with him, I wasnt thinking about death.Look, what Im trying to say is that we cant know whats in another persons heart, we cant even know whats in our own. Life turns on a dime, and somehow we muddle through.Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991In Kyudo philosophy, you dont aim-you become one with the target. Then, in fact, theres nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try.Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was it about? Was it her smile? Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists? What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart? Thats an age-old question. Its perfect food for thought on a bright midsummers night.Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991Think about a woman. Doesnt know youre thinking about her. Doesnt care youre thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.Matt Groening (1954 - ), Life in HellLearning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.Michael Masser and Linda CreedFall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.National Lampoon, DeteriorataLove is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.Peter Ustinov (1921 - )Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.Rabbi Julius GordonFor one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Address on The Method of Nature, 1841I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.Real Live Preacher, RealLiveP Weblog, December 16, 2002I don抰 think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.Real Live Preacher, RealLiveP Weblog, January 20, 2003Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.Real Live Preacher, RealLiveP Weblog, October 20, 2003You cant love anyone until you understand that you cant love everyone.Real Live Preacher, RealLiveP Weblog, October 20, 2003Before I met my husband, Id never fallen in love, though Id stepped in it a few times.Rita RudnerLove is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)Love is or it aint. Thin love aint love at all.Toni Morrison (1931 - ), BelovedLove isnt a decision. Its a feeling. If we could decide who we