Love Quotes
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Two of the best-known love quotes are flagged here as misattributed. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life” is credited to Confucius. The oldest English version anyone has found is from a 1982 alumni magazine, where the man quoted was himself passing it along from an unnamed source. “God made beer because he loves us and wants us to be happy” is credited to Benjamin Franklin. It looks like a garbled version of what he wrote about wine in 1779, in a letter to André Morellet.
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And once again we plighted our troth,
And titter'd, caress'd, kiss'd so dearly.
Love, free as air, at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
Better to have the poet's heart than brain,
Feeling than song.
How could I think the brief years were enough
To prove the reality of endless love?
The more we love a mistress, the nearer we are to hating her.
Better to have loved and lost, than not to have loved at all. (Free translation).
We used to say
"Ah Hell, we're young"
But now we see that life is sad
And so is love.