用英語將愛情演繹到底

Part A 戀愛――約會辭彙

美語中有些字眼在中文裡面似乎找不到可代換的字, 其中感情方面的字好象就佔了不少。也許有一天你會跟老外交往, 也或許你只是有興趣認識這些字, 這個單元是戀愛一族不可不看的喔!
1. have a crush on 迷戀某人

A: I'm having this huge crush on Ted. I'm going to try and see if I can ask him out this weekend.
A: 我最近好喜歡 Ted 喔! 我想看看能不能約他這個周末出來。
B: Well...But I heard that he is already seeing somebody.
B: 嗯....但是我聽說他已經有了交往的對象了ㄝ!

美國人關於交友的用詞和我們有些不同。這裡的 "he is seeing somebody" 有可能指他剛正開始和某人交往, 也可能指他和對方已經交往了一陣子。
還有一個美國人常用來形容他們的「感情狀況」的字是"relationship"。到目前為止, 我還不能找到一個很貼切的中文來代替它。不過, 如果例句中的"...But I heard that he is already seeing somebody." 改成 "...But I heard that he is already is a serious relationship with somebody." 就慘了。因為那表示這個叫Ted 的男生不但是「死會」了, 而且是「非常地死會」。 各位應該可以大致抓到它的意思吧。

2. play hard-to-get 欲擒故縱

A: So she stood you up last night.
A: 結果, 她昨晚放你鴿子啦?
B: Well, I guess she's trying to play hard-to-get.
B: 嗯, 大概想跟我玩「欲擒故縱」的遊戲吧!

"stand someone up" 是「放某人鴿子」的意思。
"play hard-to-get" 也可以說成 "play tough-to-get"。

3. hook up 介紹、送作堆

A: Hey, how come you've never told me you have a cute sister...
A: 嘿! 你為什麼從來沒告訴我你有一個這麼漂亮可愛的妹妹?
B: What are you trying to say?
B: 你想說什麼呢?
A: Well, you can hook me up, maybe?
A: 嗯..也許你可幫我介紹一下?
B: No way.
B: 休想!

"How come?" 是口語上經常被用來代替"why"的字, 是「為什麼」的意思。但是"how come" 跟"why"的用法是不同的。 用"how come"時, 句子的構造很接近中文: 如: "How come you didn't call me last night?" (你為什麼昨晚沒打電話給我呢?)。這句話如果換成用"why"就須要用一般的問句型式, 而成 "Why didn't you call me last night?"了。
美國人對於親屬輩份關係的區分, 並不像我們那麼清楚。這裡的 "sister" 可能指「姊姊」, 也可能指「妹妹」; 須要另外問才清楚。
"hook up" 是"connection"的意思, 相當於中文裡的「介紹、認識」之類的詞, 並不單指男女之間的認識。比如某人正在找份工作, 他的朋友剛好認識比爾蓋茲(Bill Gates)。他就可以跟這位朋友說"Hey! Since you're a friend of Bill's, why don't you hook me up?" (嘿! 既然你是比爾的朋友, 幫我介紹一下吧!)

Part B

You are a dreamboat. 你是位（異性所追求的）理想人選
　　 　　
You are such a dish. 你是個絕色美人
　　
I've been dying to meet you. 我非常非常想見到你 　　
　　
Every time I see you, you leave me out in the cold. 每次我見到你，你都不睬我 　　
　　
I only have eyes for you . 我只在意你
　　 　　
I'd do anything to see you crack a smile. 為了博得你的一笑，我情願做任何事 　　
　　
You swept me off my feet. 你使我神魂顛倒 　　
　　
You don't have a care in the world. 你不知人間煩惱為何物





Part C

1. break up 分手

A: How are Bob and Pat doing?
A: Bob 和 Pat 近來如何?
B: They broke up last summer.
B: 他們去年夏天分開了。

"break up" 是「關係中止」的意思, 不限於男女之間的關係。"break-up" 是分手的名詞形。如: "They had an ugly break-up." (他們很不愉快地分手了。)

2. date (男女間的)約會; 約會對象

A: Dude, did you see that babe over there? I'm dating her.
A: 老兄!看見那邊那個美女沒有? 我正在跟她約會喔!
B: Man, you're lucky.
B: 你真是運氣好!

"babe" 是「令人垂涎」的美女或俊男。
「和某人約會」除了用 "date" , 還可以用 "romance"這個字。比如: "Beck and Ada have been dating for years." 可以說成:"Beck and Ada have been romancing for years.", 都是「Beck 跟 Ada 愛情長跑多年的意思」。
注意名詞的" date" 和 "appointment" 不可混用 "appointment" 是男女以外的約會, 如醫生、工作面談的約。萬一你跟你的醫生說:"I'd like to have a date with you.", 他可能會眼睛、嘴巴都張得很大。

Part D　英語中的有關愛情、婚姻的幾個詞令人再三回味。
　　
　　第一個詞是adore，不，決不是love。即使是在英語尚不普及的中國，love也是一個被用濫了的詞。在我眼中，love意味著煽情、媚俗。「sweetheart,I love you」，永遠只能是電影的對白，如同迅速流行開的麥當勞、可口可樂一樣，迅速失去了它的韻味。記得小時候（80年代吧）看過一篇小說，其中有關於可口可樂的介紹，說是：「想來喝起來既可口又可樂」，然而，現在，給我們的感覺呢？
　　
　　而adore這個源於西班牙語的詞，有一種被大多數現代人遺忘了的古典浪漫。給我的感覺就像一位gentleman，面對心儀的lady，微彎了腰，請她跳舞，那期盼、忐忑、尊重、喜歡含在清澈、明亮、毫不畏懼的目光里。帶點神秘、帶點期盼，更有尊重，這樣開始的愛情，如同精心挑選的種子，才能保證長出能夠茁壯成長的幼苗。
　　
　　當然，值得adore的女性，其本身必然也是一個豐富的寶藏，讓你隨著探索而有新的發現。否則，如同「傲慢與偏見」中的女主人公的父親一樣，如果一時的「頭昏」，沒有清醒的認識，苦果只有自己吃了。
　　
　　Commitment
　　
　　不論愛情如何浪漫，兩個人畢竟要走到婚姻的階段。commitment 這個詞不好譯，它意味著「義務」、「承諾」，又似乎不僅如此。儘管神秘的光環已經退去，儘管你知道了他（她）的千百條錯誤，然而你仍然願意在神聖的契約上籤上你的名字，註明「心心相印」。儘管沒有了剛剛開始時的激情，但你卻為了有他（她）時的那份穩定、溫馨的感覺而欲加的依戀，不忍捨棄。於是，儘管優秀的你必將面對外面的鶯歌燕語、櫻紅柳綠，但你一定能夠巧妙地擺脫此類的誘惑，因為你知道，你已經簽了一份環繞著聖潔光環的契約，具有了對另外一個人的承諾。
　　
　　無論何時我碰到這個詞，總會聯想到這樣一個場景：兩個人互挽著站在神的面前，聽神發問：無論任何情況，你都會愛他，和他共度一生嗎？
　　
　　Devotion
　　
　　隨著一場婚禮，人們步入了一個嶄新的生活，commitment僅僅是一個承諾，如何走好新的生活，就會碰到devotion這個詞。它也是不好譯的，翻譯成中文，好像有點「奉獻」的意思，在如今這個人人都活得很自我的時代，再要求一個人對另一個人「奉獻」，似乎，呵呵。在我看來，devotion就是將他（她）記在心上，面對前路的風風雨雨，相互地扶持。不再特意地製造浪漫，而是以風雨中的一把雨傘、相隔一方時近乎瑣碎的叮嚀、晚餐桌旁涼了再熱、熱了又涼而又毫無埋怨的等候來表示你的殷勤、包容和支持。
　　
　　這種婚姻，又是怎樣的風花雪月可以影響的呢？

Part E      愛情英語流行秀
A Basic Expressions 基本表達
1. Are you married or single? 你是結婚還是單身？
2.Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend? 你有男朋友/女朋友嗎？
3.Do you have anyone in mind? 你有意中人嗎？
4.You\'\'re so sweet./You\'\'re so charming. 你真甜/你太迷人了。
5.She has looks./She looks beautiful. 她長得好看。
6.I can\'\'t wait to see you./I\'\'m dying to see you.我好想好想見你呀。
7.I\'\'m in love. 我墜入愛河。
8.We broke up./We\'\'re through. 我們分手了/我們完了。
9.He dumped her. 他把她甩了。
10.We are just friends. 我們只是一般的朋友。

B Describing someone 特徵描述
1. She looks ***y./She has ***y looks. 她很性感。
2. She has a good figure. 她身材好。
3. My girlfriend is a peach. 我的女朋友是個美人。
4. She looks old for her age. 她看上去比實際年齡大。
5. He is so cool. 他好酷呀。
6. He is a real man. 他是個真正的男子漢。

C．Dating 約會
1. Will you go out with me tonight? 晚上和我一起出去好嗎？
2. It was love at first sight. 那是一見鍾情。
3. I\'\'m looking forward to seeing her. 我盼望著與她見面。
4. I wish I could turn you on. 希望你對我觸電。
5. My heart went pit-a-pat. 我的心怦怦直跳。
6. Keep in touch. 保持聯繫。
7. Be there or be square. 不見不散。
8. I don\'\'t have the heart to tell her. 我沒有勇氣對她說。

D. Confessions of Love 示愛
1. I love you. 我愛你。
2. I\'\'m in love with you. 我愛上了你。
3. I love you with all my heart. 我全心全意愛你。
4. I just can\'\'t stop loving you. 我不能不愛你。
5. You are everything to me. 你是我的一切。
6. I will love you as long as I live. 我會愛你一輩子。
7. I miss you so much. 我很想你。
8. I don\'\'t know what I\'\'d do without you. 我不知道沒有你我將怎麼辦。

Part F-(I)

美國人儘管喊了多少年的「性開放」，但很多美國人在談情說愛方面，仍然喜歡採用一些含蓄保守的詞句或語句，表現文明和禮貌。以下舉一些例句，或許能說明一二。
to have a crush on (someone)；
to feel an instant magnetism；
to catch one's eyes； to hit it off；
to have the hots for (someone)；
to be attracted to each other.
這些片語，都是描寫男女間互相傾慕，兩情相悅，有吸引力或一見鍾情。
例如：
* He (she) has a crush on her (him) (他對她十分愛慕) 。
* He felt an instant magnetism when their eyes met. （他們見面時，他立即感到磁性般的吸住）。
意指女的外表吸引; 如果是 she felt... 那麼就是指男的外表吸引。
* A nice-looking girl caught his eye.（漂亮的妞兒吸住）。 注意：不用 eyes。
* He was introduced to a pretty woman and they seem to hit it off immediately.
（他被介紹給一位漂亮女子後，他們似乎就一見鍾情）。 或
* They were attracted to each other the moment their eyes met.
* When he met her, he had the hots for her.（當他見到她，他就對她愛慕不已。）
(多半指 ***ual attraction。)
例如說，女對男的沒有興趣，那麼也可以說：
* She did not feel any attraction toward him.（她對他毫無興趣); 或
* He is the man for whom she feels no attraction, catch or no catch.
（不管他的條件好或壞，她對他就是沒有興趣）。
這裡的 catch，可指財富、地位、名望和外表。
to be a lady's man (或 ladies' man)；
to be a prince on a white horse；
to be a casanova；
to be a womanizer.　
這些都是指男人英俊瀟灑，作風奔放，野性旺盛，喜歡在「女人窩」里。例如：
* Mr. Lin has been considered a prince on a white horse.（林先生被認為是白馬王子。）
這是中古時代女子對男人的夢中理想，然而現在也有老外認為美男子應該是：全身盔甲燦爛光輝的王子。
* He is a prince in a shining armour.（動詞時態：shine, shone 或 shined。）
* Many people think that Mr. Clinton is a real lady's man.（或 a real womanizer）
(許多人認為柯林頓先生喜歡在女人窩裡。）
*As a casanova, he has many girl friends.
（由於他是美男子，他有許多女友。）
（Casanova 是義大利人，據說是頂尖的美男子，他的全名是：
Casanova de seingalt Giovanni Giacomo 在此 casanova
被當做普通名詞，故 c 不必大寫。

如果形容男人外表魅惑力大，能使女人「如饑似渴」般崇拜他，
也可以說：* He has melted her down and made her knees buckle.
（他把她溶化了，使她拜倒他的西裝褲下）。
這句話老外通常不用在男人身上，也許因為男子應該比較堅強些吧！
或且說：
* So many women swarmed him like bees to the honey.
（許多女人看到他，就像一群蜜蜂見到蜜那樣蜂擁而至。）

倘若說：...like flies to the garbage
指像一群蒼蠅喜歡垃圾那樣，當然就不是恭維了。
to be a beauty queen; to be a dream boat;
to be a cutie; to be a babe;
to be a fox.
這些都是形容女人漂亮，曲線玲瓏，身材曼妙，
揮身性感或散發一種性感的野性。
例如：
* She is a beauty queen.（= very beautiful）
* She is a cutie.（= pretty and attractive）（漂亮迷人）
* She is a dream boat.（= ideal type of woman）（理想女人）
* She is a babe.（= very beautiful and attractive）
* She is a fox.（= She is a foxy lady = She is ***y.）（她很性感）。
注意：如果說： She is as sneaky（或 cunning）as a fox.
又是指她像狐狸一樣的狡猾。

假如女人能使男人拜倒她的石榴裙下或神魂顛倒那麼就能說：
* Her beauty （attraction） has caused his knees to shake.
（或 to quiver）（她的漂亮迷人使他膝部發抖）。或
* She made him feel up there in the clouds.
（= on clouds nine = on the top of the world）
（她使他神魂顛倒，飄飄然如仙。）
其實，所謂「情人眼裡出西施」（Beauty is in the eyes of beholder），
世上的美或丑，只是主觀的看法而已。
to fall in love with （someone）；
to fall head over heels in love; to love （someone） from head to toe.
都是指男歡女愛，沉溺情海，或是愛得暈頭轉向。
例如：
* They have fallen in love with each other for years.（他們相愛多年）。
（動詞時態：fall, fell, fallen）
* He fell head over heels in love with her.
（= He fell for her head over heels = He is head over-heels in love with her.）
（他與她沉溺情海，愛得暈頭轉向。）多半指很快落入情海。
* He loves her from head to toe.（他從頭到腳地愛她）。多指經過較長時間後才熱戀, 或
* He falls madly in love with her.

至於男女熱戀時「目中無人」或「形影不離」，也可以說:
* They are two peas in a pod. （他們像豆莢里的兩粒豆子--即形影不離。）
* They only have eyes for each other（and forget the entire world.）
（世界上似乎只有他們兩個人。）

Part F-(II)

如果你很喜歡一個人，看他/她特別順眼，那麼你就可以稱他是apple of one's eye。你可能會想，蘋果當然可愛了，或者，你也可能會想，我最討厭蘋果了，不論怎樣，這個成語其實和蘋果的關係不是很直接。Apple of one's eye這個成語的歷史很悠久，在聖經里就可以見到。古時候的人們認為，人的黑眼球又實又亮，形狀像蘋果一樣。因此，apple of one's eye的本意是指人的黑眼球。後來，它的意思就演變成讓人喜歡的人，因為，黑眼球對人來說，是非常重要的，沒有它，人不能看到東西。比如說，一個人談到他的女朋友時說：

　　I love Karen so much. She is the apple of my eye.

　　他的意思就是：我很愛Karen。她就是我最寶貝的寶貝。

　　當然，這個成語也可以用在親人，朋友之間。例如，一個當女兒的說：

　　For my mom, I am the apple of her eye.

　　(對我媽媽來說，我就是她的貼心小棉襖。)

　　戀人的愛情有時候是很盲目的。大家一定會有這樣的經歷，一個男孩或者女孩，本來長相平平，但追求他/她的人就是覺得漂亮。有一句老話，叫做「情人眼裡出西施」，這在英文里就是：Beauty is in the eye of the beholder。它的直譯就是：美不美，要看誰來欣賞。這話其實還是很有道理的，我們每個人的生活環境不同，受到的教育不同，文化習俗不同，審美觀念自然不同。人的差異是必然的，關鍵是要彼此包容。說到這裡，我就想起美國人對東方人的審美了。對我們來說，大眼睛，白皮膚，嬌小依人的女孩好看，但是美國人就認為那種丹鳳眼，膚色偏黑，身體健康的亞洲女孩漂亮，比如著名演員Lucy Liu，老美就迷的不行(其實，我也覺得她長的很美)。而翻開雜誌，一旦有亞洲女孩出現，我們的反應總是，咦？這個模特怎麼長的這麼一般呀。不過，美國人也開始接受中國式的美女了，比如說龔俐，章子怡之類的。其實，長的漂亮不漂亮並不重要，而有良好的氣質，走到哪裡都會受歡迎的。

　　轉回正題，讓我們來看看這個成語是如何用的。下面這個人在談論自己好友的女友時，就用到了這個成語：

　　Pete told me his girlfriend was gorgeous, but when I saw her, I think she was just pretty. I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

　　(Pete告訴我他的女朋友是個大美女，可當我見到她，我也就覺得她長的還可以。看來真的是情人眼裡出西施啊。)

　　這個成語不僅可以用在戀人之間，也可以用在別的地方，比如對其他的人啊，對某樣東西啊，等等。例如，這個人聊天的時候說，

　　My parents redecorated their house. For them, it is marvelous, but for me, it is ordinary still. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

　　(我父母重新裝修了他們的房子。對他們來講，這房子漂亮的不得了，可對我，還是很一般。是不是美麗，還得看誰來欣賞啊。)

很多情侶是見第一面的時候就對上眼的，在中文裡，我們稱之為「一見鍾情」。這在英文里，就叫做Love at first sight，即見了第一面就愛上了。這個成語既可以當名詞使用，也可以當動詞使用。一見鍾情很難預測，因為通常雙方都是被對方的外表所吸引，並不了解相互的性格。交往之後，有的情侶達成默契，結成終身伴侶，而有的情侶話不投機，不歡而散。比如有個人在評論朋友的愛情時說：

　　I introduced Joe to Margie, and they fell in love at first sight.

　　(我把Joe介紹給Margie，然後他們就一見鍾情了。)

　　在這句話里，fall in love就是墜入愛河的意思。

　　而下面這個人則在談論一次並不成功的「一見鍾情」：

　　Although it was love at first sight, after six month's courtship, they finally broke up.

　　她的意思就是：雖然他們是一見鍾情，但經過六個月的戀愛，最後還是分手了。

　　在上面這句話里，courtship指的是戀愛，break up的意思是分手。

　　大家在青少年的時候一定有很多戀愛的經歷或是見聞。比如在上中學的時候，誰和誰好上了，都是大新聞。那時候談戀愛是不被允許的，因為老師家長們的意見是學生早戀會影響學習。現在想起來，他們的話還是有道理的，因為那時候心智發育還很不成熟，既不懂得如何愛對方，也不懂得如何愛自己。不過，這是人生中不可避免的一課，關鍵還是如何正確疏導。對於這種早戀，美語里就成為puppy love或者calf love，它的意思就是年紀輕輕時的第一次戀愛。Puppy是小狗的意思，而calf是小牛的意思，這個成語就有點那種初生牛犢，還不了解世事人情的意思。比如下面這句話：

　　Julia and Tom went out together when they were in high school, but their parents believed that it was just puppy love.

　　(Julia和Tom在上高中的時候就出去約會了，但他們的父母認為這隻不過是小孩子的早戀罷了。)

　　在美國，中學生早戀是不被禁止的，一般來說，老師不會管理這些事情，而主要靠家長的教育。很愛孩子，很負責任，道德意識很強的父母也不會禁止孩子們的戀愛，但是他們會明確告訴孩子有哪些事情可以做，有哪些事情不可以做。而通常孩子們也會聽父母的話。但是，並不是人人都是負責的父母，也並不是個個孩子都聽話，所以造成的問題也很多，例如墮胎(在美國，很多地方是不允許墮胎的)，年紀輕輕的單身媽媽，遺棄甚至殘殺嬰兒事件等等。另外，美國的法律是禁止成年人和未成年人發生性關係的，這不僅是很嚴重的罪行，也會受到社會輿論的譴責。

　　我們還會遇到這樣的情況，就是一個人偷偷地暗戀另一個人，對他/她很有好感。這時候，我們就可以用crush這個詞，它既可以指這種行為，也可以指暗戀的對象。讓我們來看看下面這段對話：

　　I heard John has a crush on Raquel.

　　I think so too. Look, here comes his crush!

　　(我聽說John暗戀Raquel。　　我也這麼覺得。瞧，他的暗戀對象不是來了!)

　　這個詞非常常用，大概是因為這種一廂情願的事情太多了吧。

　　戀愛的第一步總是男方或是女方提出邀請，然後兩人一起出去吃個飯，參加娛樂活動什麼的。這時候，就要用到date這個詞。它既可以作動詞用，指邀請約會，也可以作名詞用。當名詞使用的時候，它有兩個意思，一個是指約會這種社交活動，另一個是指約會對象。在美國，date什麼人只能說是戀愛的前奏曲。如果在約會中雙方發現並不合適，很快就會停止約會。好，就讓我們看幾個例子，看看date這個詞是如何使用的。

　　Date當動詞使的時候，可以是及物動詞，也可以做不及物動詞。比如下面兩個例子：

　　Adam wanted to date Joanna, but he never asked her out.

　　(Adam想和Joanna約會，但他從沒發出邀請。) Ask someone out在這裡的意思就是邀請什麼人出去約會。

　　If you wanna date, you』d better get yourself clean.

　　(如果你想約會，你最好把自己弄乾凈些。)

　　Date做名詞的時候，可以指約會本身。例如下面一個人在大談約會經驗：

　　At first, I just wanna have a date with her, but then I found out she was such a cute girl.

　　他的意思就是：剛開始的時候，我就只是想和她約會看看，但後來我發現她可真是個可愛的女孩。

　　Date還可以指約會的對象。一定要注意，它只能指關係還沒確定的男女，如果真的成了男女朋友，再用這個詞稱呼對方，會顯得很生分。比如，在一次舞會上，一個男孩終於邀請到他心儀的女生。他說：

　　You know what? Julia will be my date tonight! She is my dream lover!

　　(你知道嗎？Julia今晚是我的約會對象!她可是我的夢中情人啊!)

　　另外還要注意的是，在相互介紹中，也最好別說和你在一起的男孩或是女孩是你的date，那樣顯得怪怪的，只用說是friend就足已了。

　　由於現在大家工作日益忙碌，沒有什麼時間參加社交活動，再加上有的人性格內向，所以很難找到合適的伴侶。因此，各種婚介所，情侶介紹所都應運而生。這些機構，掌握了很多男女的資料，然後再按照興趣，性格，以及對伴侶的要求把兩個完全不認識的人組合在一起。這時候兩個人的約會，就和普通的約會不太一樣了。這種約會，在英文里被稱之為blind date，中文裡好像沒有對應的詞語，但是大體意思就是那種盲目的約會，或是冒險約會。比如說下面一段對話：

　　I have a blind date tonight. I don't know what to wear, can you help me?

　　Sure, I can help you with that. But, are you sure about the blind date?

　　(我今天晚上有個冒險約會。我不知道穿什麼好，你能幫幫我嗎？

　　當然啦，我可以幫你想想主意。但是，你對這個冒險約會有準嗎?)

　　除了介紹所，媒人介紹的約會可以稱之為blind date，和網上認識的異性(或者同性)約會，也可以叫做blind date。在美國，有關blind date的節目很受大家，尤其是年輕人的歡迎。一對對互不認識的男女的約會，被拍攝下來，然後雙方又各自談對對方的感受，非常有意思。但是，blind date有時候還是存在一定危險的，例如約會時發生的強姦案(date rape)，在美國很常見。因為自願和強迫的界限非常難劃清，這類案件通常都很難處理。

除了blind date外，還有double date。這並不是指一個人腳踩兩隻船，同時和兩個人約會。看過《流星花園》的，一定還記得杉菜和道明寺，小優(優紀)和她的男友舉行過一次「四人約會」。Double date就是指這種「四人約會」，即兩對情侶一起出去。比如說下面這句話：

　　Jonathan and Hillary went out with Billy and Roseanne on a double date.

　　(Jonathan，Hillary和Billy, Roseanne一起進行了一次「四人約會」。)

在如今的年代，青年男女同居已經不是什麼新鮮事了，只要兩廂情願，搬到一起住，是很正常的事情。但是這並不意味著同居就一點壓力也沒有。要知道，美國有的地方可是十分的保守。不過當然了，在這種地方，大家的道德意識也是很強的。因此，如何稱呼同居的對象，也就成了個尷尬的問題。

　　按照我們的想法，同居的男女朋友難道就不是男女朋友了嗎？稱他們為「男朋友」，「女朋友」不就完了。可是要知道，美國人有個習慣，就是一有一樣新的事物出現，就要相應地發明一個新的辭彙。說它是好習慣也好，壞習慣也好，總之，同居的男女朋友和傳統意義上的男女朋友是不一樣的，因此要給它取個名字。

　　有人提出了significant other這個名稱，這個片語在美國還很流行，意思就是指對你很重要的另一半，通常都是男朋友，女朋友。但這個片語比boyfriend, girlfriend的感情色彩更濃，所以指同居男女朋友還算是合適。但是，如果有人用到了，他並不一定在說，我所指的人在和我同居。讓我們來看一個例句：

　　Although I go out with him now, I don't think he is my significant other.

　　這個女孩的意思就是：「雖然我現在和他交往，但我並不認為他是我的另一半。」在這句話里，go out with someone的意思不是和什麼人出去，而是和某個異性交往。

　　不過，significant other這個片語雖然好，但你不會聽到有人用它介紹自己的同居對象的。沒有人會說：I』d like you to meet my significant other.

　　因為沒有合適的詞，有人就半開玩笑的說，乾脆就叫他們er-ahs好了。他的理由是，每次遇到介紹這種情況，大家就會支支吾吾，說：I』d like you to meet my…errr…ahh…. (我想介紹你認識我的……嗯……啊……)。還有人給他們取了名字，叫他們shack-in-law。可是這些也就是大家開開玩笑罷了，並沒有人真正地使用它們。

　　80年代的時候，美國政府為了普查這種未婚的特殊狀況，就發明了POSSLQ這個縮寫，它的發音像是possel-cue,它代表的意思是：Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters。但是20多年後，你是絕對不會聽到有人使用它的。

　　所以，這麼長時間了，在美語里，還是沒有一個合適的名詞來定義同居的男女朋友。

　　在戀愛和婚姻中，我們還常常會碰到一方對另一方不忠誠的事情，這時候，就可以用到cheat這個詞。比如下面的這個人，就在談論她所認識的一對情侶：

　　Jerry always tells Laura how much he loves her, but when he has any chance, he never hesitates to cheat on her.

　　(Jerry總是口口聲聲告訴Laura他有多愛她，可是他一旦有機會，毫不猶豫就會去做對不起她的事情。)

　　這種口是心非的人，是不值得去愛的。而對於美國人來說，欺騙是最讓人不能容忍的事情之一了。任何形式的欺騙都會讓一個人的形象大打折扣，聲譽下降。比如說柯林頓和萊溫斯基事件，雖然公眾接受了他的道歉，但對很多美國人來說，他已經不值得信任了。

　　Cheat這個詞除了可以指在戀愛，婚姻中的不忠實行為外，還可以指「作弊」，例如考試作弊，偷稅漏稅等。

Part G Copy愛情名言

1.It is impossible to love and to be wise.
-Francis Bacon

2.Love,and you shall be loved.All love is mathematically just,as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

3.Where there is marriage without love,there will be love without marriage.
-Benjamin Franklin

4.We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love,never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.
-Sigmund Freud

5.He was awake a long time before he remember that his heart was broken.
-Ernest Heminway

6.The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that one is loved;loved for oneself,or better yet,love despite oneselt.
-Victor Hugo

7.You love me so much,you want to put me in your pocket.And I should die there smothered.
-D.H Lawrence

8.Love is a serious mental disease.
-Plato

9.Absence form those we love is self from self-a deadly banishment.
-William Shakespeare

10.Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Thank You!

Thanks a lot!

"You love me so much,you want to put me in your pocket.And I should die there smothered." and I know " I love you so much, I want to put you in my pocket, and you will die there smothered" by---cwjjzhou

"You are a dreamboat. 你是位（異性所追求的）理想人選
　　 　　
You are such a dish. 你是個絕色美人
　　
I've been dying to meet you. 我非常非常想見到你 　　
　　
Every time I see you, you leave me out in the cold. 每次我見到你，你都不睬我 　　
　　
I only have eyes for you . 我只在意你
　　 　　
I'd do anything to see you crack a smile. 為了博得你的一笑，我情願做任何事 　　
　　
You swept me off my feet. 你使我神魂顛倒 　　
　　
You don't have a care in the world. 你不知人間煩惱為何物"
how beautiful words they are!
"You swept me off my feet. 你使我神魂顛倒", thanks for telling us... now I think I have words to my hubby.

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.
Mistinguett


A kiss can beautify souls hearts and thoughts.
unknown


A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
Rupert Brooke


A kiss? the renunciation of the heart when one is no longer alone.
unknown


A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one.
Maupassant


A lover fears all that he believes.
Ovidio


A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
Thomas Hardy


A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
Latin proverbs


A meeting between two beings who complete one another, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle.
Adolf Hitler


A part of us remains where ever we have been.
anonymous


A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart.
unknown


A pity beyond all telling Is hid in the heart of love.
W.B. Yeats


A smile is nearly always inspired by another smile.
anonymous


a song isn't a song until you sing it a bell isn't a bell until you ring it love in your heart isn't put there to say love isn't love until you give it away. ("The Sound of Music")
unknown


A thing of beauty is joy forever.
John Keats


A true man does not need to romance a different girl every night, a true man romances the same girl for the rest of her life.
Ana Alas


A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.
E. De Amicis


Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. ("Histoire amoureuse des Gaules")
Christopher Marlowe


Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
unknown


Absence sharpens love, but presence strengthens it.
fortune cookie


Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lend me leave to come unto my love?
Edmund Spenser


Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
Herman Melville


Alas! the love of women! it is known To be a lovely and fearful thing!
George Gordon Lord Byron


All energy is the sum of free will plus love.
unknown


All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


All the little emptiness of love.
Rupert Brooke


All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed his sacred flame.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge


All you need is love.
John Lennon


Amo, amas, I love a lass, As a cedar tall and slender; Sweet cowslip's grace Is her nominative case, And she's of the feminine gender.
John O'Keefe


And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music--Speak to me!
George Gordon Lord Byron


And the trouble is if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong


Anyone can look at others eyes, but Lovers can see into each others' souls through the eyes.
Larry Latta


Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
Joseph Addison


As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain.
Arthur Symons


As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller


As the ocean is never full of water, so is the heart never full of love.
unknown


At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
La Bruyere


At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato


Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E.E. Cummings


Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil Gibran


Beauty provokes thieves sooner than gold.
William Shakespeare


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


Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee.
San Juan de la Cruz


But Love has pitched his mansion in The place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole That has not been rent.
W.B. Yeats


By her shining and her power he knew her. ("Fire from Heaven")
Mary Renault


Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks. ("The Bait")
John Donne


Come with me, and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Woods or steepy mountain yields. ("The Passionate Shepherd to his Love")
Christopher Marlowe


Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I.
Herbert Trench


Death is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
Emily Dickinson


Devil, don't you know you are as beautiful as an Angel?
G. Leopardi


Didn't you know that people hide love like a flower too precious to be picked?
Wu Ti


Don't ever frown because you never know who's falling in love with your smile.
unknown


Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend forever.
George Fox


Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. ("Hamlet")
William Shakespeare


Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.
W.B. Yeats


Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Aphra Behn


Each morning as I awaken your the reason I smile, Your the reason I love.
Jerry Burton


Economized love is never real love.
Balzac


Everyone hears what you say, friends listen to what you say, best friends listen to what you don't say.
unknown


Everything that deceives also enchants.
Plato


Eyes of most unholy blue!
Thomas Moore


First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal


Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind. ("Four Quartets")
T.S. Eliot


For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke


For those who love... time is eternity...
Henry Van Dyke


For those who loved should always feel that their love given, was love well taken.
Fran White


For what is love itself, for the one we love best?--an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
George Elliot


For you see, each day I love you more, Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Rosemonde Gerard


Fresh spring the herald of love's mighty king.
Edmund Spenser


Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight is said to be the only truth.
Herman Melville


Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
Max Jacob


Gather therefore the rose, whilst yet is prime. For soon comes age, that will her pride deflower.
Edmund Spenser


Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
Robert Herrick


Glorious the comet's trail. . . ("A Song to David")
Christopher Smart


Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise. ("atient Grissill")
Thomas Dekker


Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein


Hail, Holy light, offspring of Heaven. . . ("aradise Lost")
John Milton


Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.
Lope de Vega


he who cries the loudest shows the most pain he who keeps it all inside dies in vain (from 'when a thought becomes u')
Blake Baxter


Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
Edmund Spenser


Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed. . . ("To the Queen")
Alfred Lord Tennyson


Hours fly Flowers die New days New ways Pass by Love stays
Sohail Rana


How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?
W.B. Yeats


How we feel is how we want to be heard.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal


I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so in Whining poetry.
John Donne


I am you and you are love and that is what makes the world go 'round.
Clive Barker


I believe that if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.
Benito Perez Galdos


I could do without many things with no hardship--you are not one of them.
Ashleigh Brilliant


I could have loved you once And said it But then you went away And when you came back Love was a forgotten word Remember?
Marilyn Monroe


I don't make you feel special, I just remind you that you are special.
David F. Sims


I don't need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we'll ever have is the one with ourselves.
Shirley Maclaine


I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
Kyle Schmidt


I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B. Yeats


I love you for the man you are, I love you for the things you do, I love you for the things you say. But most of all I love you because you love me for the woman I am for the things I do and for the things I say. I love you
Magnolias


I may not be a smart man but I know what love is.
Forrest Gump


I need him like I need the air to breathe
Tulip97


I smooth through languid skin to will what none, but we would frantically take. Please say, no, whisper love.
Kimberly Rivers


I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time.
Hobbes


I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love.
Robert Tizon


I'm sending you some kisses, I know you like them.
anonymous


Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her and one for them together.
Jacqueline Bisset


If a thing loves, it is infinite.
William Blake


If all my friends were to jump off a bridge I wouldn't jump with them, I would be at the bottom to catch them.
unknown


If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
W.H. Auden


If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Herman Hesse


If I love you, Love You forever Promise me you'll never stop loving me, Never Never
unknown

(to be continued)

If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
La Rochefoucauld


If you are cold at night, let the promise of my love cover you like a warm blanket.
Matthew White


If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us
Stendhal


If you love him let him go, if he comes back to you, he was always yours.
unknown


If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with a little rain!
Dolly Parton


Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
Erich Fromm


In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.
Wayne Dwyer


In her first passion woman loves her lover, In all the others all she loves is love.
George Gordon Lord Byron


In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Erich Fromm


In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, before polygamy was made a sin.
John Dryden


In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.
Margaret Anderson


In solitude, What happiness? Who can enjoy alone, Or all enjoying, what contentment find? ("aradise Lost")
John Milton


In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin


In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
Walt Whitman


In women everything is heart, even the head.
J.P. Richter


It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
Bernard Shaw


It is better to love, than to never have loved before.
Jon Bargiel


It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
Santa Teresa de Jesus


It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Thomas Mann


It is not love, but lack of love which is blind.
Glenway Wescott


It is not only necessary to love, It is necessary to say so.
French proverb


It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
La Rochefoucauld


It』s a song of a merryman, moping mum, Whose soul was sad, and whose glance was glum, Who, sipped no sup, and who craved no crumb, As he sighed for the love of a layde. ("Yeoman of the Guard")
William Schwenck Gilbert


It's amazing if it's not this that they call Love.
Ovidio


It's hard to tell if you love someone until they are gone.
G.D. Swan


Journeys end in lovers meeting. (Twelfth Night, Scene 3)
William Shakespeare


Kisses that are easily obtained are easily forgotten.
English proverbs


Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases.
Chinese proverbs


Let no one who loves be unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
James Matthew Barrie


Let there be such oneness between us, that when one cries, the other tastes salt~
Rossabelle Believe


Let's enjoy love: without it we cannot live.
Emanuel Schikaneder


Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.
Len Santos


Life began after I fell in love with you
B. Hodge


Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo


Life, the gift of nature, Love, the gift of life, a Kiss, the gift of Love.
unknown


LIVE TO LOVE, and LOVE TO LIVE
Pierre Khalbourji


Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin


Love and a cough cannot be hid.
George Herbert


Love and you will be loved, and you will be able to do all that you could not do unloved.
Marques de Santillana


Love bade me welcome, but my soul drew back. . . ("Love")
George Herbert


Love cannot be measured in how long it has been but how much you spend a day with the one you love.
Ross Iztech


Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
Aphra Behn


Love covers all sins.
The Bible


Love dictates, but a kiss writes the secrets of the heart.
anonymous


Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, re-made all the time, made new.
Ursula K. Le Guin


Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
Kahlil Gibran


Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
Katherine Hepburn


Love is a believing creature.
Ovidio


Love is a irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost


Love is a kind of warfare.
Ovid


Love is a light that never dims Like the deepest passion is the ultimate sin
Mary B. Coger


Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery.
anonymous


Love is a tickle around the heart that you can't scratch!
Georgia


Love is a vine that grows into our hearts.
Adidas063


Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides


Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love, you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Leo Buscaglia


Love is an emotion a woman always feels for her poodle, and sometimes for a man.
unknown


Love is an energy - it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die. (Celeste in "April Fools Day")
Bryce Courtney


Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation.
Jose Marti Y Perez


Love is broad; if you love someone, you love all things, not just their beauty. Love is narrow; you love one and only one, compared to them, no one matters.
A McBraxton


Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle


Love is friendship set on fire.
Jeremy Taylor


Love is God and God is love.
Camilla Saunders


Love is great when you find someone to give it to!!
Chris Myrick


Love is hard to get into, but harder to get out of.
Sean Bawden


Love is honey, how sweet it is to the soul.
unknown


Love is like a butterfly, it goes where it pleases and it pleases where it goes.
unknown


Love is like the sun: has its inner energy source that shines on you.
Helene Lagerberg


Love is more than an emotion, it's the substance of our being.
Jill Harrison


Love is neither true or false, love is love.
Camilla Saunders


love is painful that is true not to love is painful too; but there is a greater pain: to love and not be loved again
John Fussle


Love is present always.
Jill Harrison


Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
Vincent Van Gogh


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


Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.
Joe McMahon


Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
Nicholas Chamfort


Love is the expression of simplicity in emotion, the unattainable longing that comes so unexpectedly, with great subtlety and bliss.
Luyen Dao


Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Pablo Picasso


Love is the language our hearts use to speak to one another. For you, my dear, my heart sings.
Amanda R. Byrd


Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm


Love is the power that heals the soul and mends hearts.
Jill Harrison


Love is the power which can make you or break you. Every time I close my eyes your love is all around.
Hassaan


love is to sex sex is to sin sins are forgiven so lets begin 3 hours of pleasure 9 months of pain 2 hours in the hospital and a baby to name fathers a bastard mothers a whore none of this would have happened if the rubber wouldn't have tore
L. W.


Love is unconditional. . . Relationships are not.
Grant Gudmundson


Love is what you make it.
Terri


Love is when two people who care for each other get confused.
Bob Schneider


Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouih


Love keeps your heart busy.
Wisdom H


Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare


Love never dies. ("Bram Stroker's Dracula")
Francis Ford Coppola


Love never stops even she is in front of you.
Wisdom H


Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives it ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
William Blake


Love simply IS.
Jill Harrison


Love those who love you.
Voltaire


Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
George Gordon Lord Byron


Love, and do what you like.
Agostino


Love, you are eternal like springtime.
Juan Ramon Jiminez


Love. Need I say more?
Bram Scott Reeves

(to be continued)

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
Merle Shain


Lust lasts longer than latinum.
(Deep Space 9) Quark


Man loves little and often: Woman much and rarely.
anonymous


Marriage is not living with the person you love, but living with the person you can't live without.
Aissa Amor A. Sarmiento


May your love soar on the wings of a dove in flight.
Debbie Crabtree


Men are always sincere. They change sincerity, that's all!
Tristan Bernard


Mine ear is enamoured by thy note; So is mine eye enthralled by thy shape; and thy fair virtues force perforce doth move me; to say, to swear, I love thee.
William Shakespeare


My first glance fell on your heart!
Johann F.C. Schiller


My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life.
Omar Kyyam


My night has become a sunny dawn because of you.
Ibn Abbad


Night Light Searching in the dark I'm lost with out your touch, The day comes but the sun never shines. It's a dream yet the candle slowly grows small, I need the net of your love to catch me when I fall.
Stephen Rygiel


No guy is worth your tears, and the one who is won't make you cry.
unknown


No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens


No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.
William Shakespeare


No surprise can produce such a magical effect as being loved.
Charles Morgan


No words are necessary between two loving hearts.
unknown


No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.
Thomas Moore


No-one is ever betrayed by true love.
Jaufré Rudel


Not loving is but a long dying.
Wu Ti


O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!
Thomas Dekker


Once you have loved, You will always love. For what's in your mind may escape, But what's in your heart will remain forever.
Brooke Zuroweste


One can care little for man, but we need a friend.
Chinese proverbs


One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again, I wrote it with a second hand; But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. Vain man, said she that dost in vain assay, A mortal thing so to immortalize.
Edmund Spenser


One is alone with all the things he loves.
Novalis


One kiss breaches the distance between friendship and love.
anonymous


Outside are the storms and strangers: We - Oh, close, safe and warm sleep I and she, I and she . . .
Robert Browning


Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.
John Dryden


People are not perfect but LOVE can be so why looking for a perfect lover instead of creating a perfect LOVE
SHE_DJ


People happy in love have an air of intensity.
Stendhal


Pure and complete sorrow is impossible as pure and complete joy.
Leo Tolstoy


Real love is perpetual.
Jill Harrison


Reason and love are sworn enemies.
Corneille


Security is when I'm very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back.
Shelley Winters


Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.
The Bible


Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
anonymous


She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
Migeul de Cervantes


She who has never loved, has never lived.
J. Gay


So long as man remains free, he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
anonymous


Soft white petals A fragrance so sweet Blooming in a meadow So pretty, so petite If you listen closely You can hear it sing Though it knows it's dying It looks only to the spring.
R.E. Long


Some people think it's holding on that makes you strong, sometimes it's letting go.
unknown


Sometimes we see things not as they are but as we are: Love brings understanding.
unknown


Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away And all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then in silence, I can only hope, my eyes will speak my heart.
unknown


Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.
E.E. Cummings


Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning


Take it and return it: the kiss of love.
unknown


The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare


The darkness is no darkness with thee. . . (1662, Psalms 139:5)
Prayer Book


The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
Albert Camus


The Eskimo has fifty two names for snow because it is important to them, there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood


The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich


The following are only some of the key words that remind me of you; Love, world, life, live, girl, woman, kiss, hugs, marriage, God, forever, etc.
Patrick Rackels


The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
unknown


The heart has it's reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.
Pascal


The heart has no wrinkles.
M.se de Sevigne


The heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
The Wizard of Oz


The heart was made to be broken.
Oscar Wilde


The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see and things the mind cannot understand.
anonymous


The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and know what the mind cannot understand.
Robert Valett


The kiss is the King of Hearts and brooks no refusal.
unknown


The kiss, a sweet discovery of oneself after a long search.
anonymous


The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.
Thomas Moore


The love of beauty in it's multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
Alexis Carrel


The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
Benjamin Disraeli


The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
Jeraluddin Rumi


The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss.
unknown


The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one, Yet the light of the bright world dies with the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done.
Francis William Bourdillon


The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to G-d, this is love.
Victor Hugo


The soul runs in me loves, kiss, hugs, sucks, and squeezes yours.
Gihan Sadik


The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze.
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer


The speech of someone in love bores everyone except the loved one.
unknown


The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo


The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes


The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
G.K. Chesterton


The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away.
W.B. Yeats


The words of her mouth were softer than butter, having war in her heart; her words were smoother than oil, and they be very swords. (1662, Psalms 55:22)
Prayer Book


The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great-quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
D.H. Lawrence


the young fool to love and nurture a dying plant, no matter how much attention you give- that plant will still wilt and eventually die== you will never get back those years you could've lived.
Erica Zollinger


There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
unknown


There is but one genuine love potion - consideration.
Menander


There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. (1 John 4:18)
The Bible


There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.
A.C. Swinburne


There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Charles Morgan


There is nothing like love in this world unless you experience it.
Meenu Baheti


There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George Sands


There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.
A.C. Swinburne


This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
Goethe


those who live for love live well
A. Weigh


Though in silence, with blighted affection, I pine, Yet the lips that touch liquor must never touch mine!
George W. Young


Time brings a lot of changes my dear and that is really true but one thing never changes that is my love for you.
Sohail Rana


Time can but make her beauty over again.
W.B. Yeats


Time wounds all heels.
Jane Ace


To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
George Orwell


To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.
Petrach


To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
Bess Myerson


To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Jorge Luis Borges


To fall in LOVE, is to rise. . . .
Upendra


To fear love is to fear life.
Bertrand Russell


To lose your love is to have lived a thousand lives, and have them end all at once.
Rock


To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott


To love another person is to see the face of God.
Les Miserables


To love is not to look at one another, but to look together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery


To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde


To love without expected return on my investment frees me to love with purity of heart, mind and soul...I am not distracted by selfish motive or disappointed by insensitivity.... I am free to love... just love.
L. Hodge


To the world you may be someone, but to someone you may be the world.
anonymous


To the world you may be someone, but to someone you may be the world.
anonymous


True knowledge derives from a suspect or revelation.
Herman Melville


True love is like a pair of socks you gotta have two and they've gotta match.
anonymous


True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived. ("The Little Prince")
Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Truly love you endlessly. Every day without you is like a book without pages. I love you, I will always do, for the rest of our earthly and heavenly life.
F. Abahusain


Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name; So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us oft, and worshipp'd be. ("Air and Angels")
John Donne


Two hearts are stronger than three, but only if you instill yours inside of me.
Matthew K. Free


UNFORTUNATE COINCIDENCE By the time you swear you are his shivering and sighing, And vows his passion is infinite and undying- Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.
Dorothy Parker


Very often melancholy is the memory of a kiss not given.
unknown


Wait for the one you love. Not the one who found you first.
anonymous


War can´t kill love. Love can kill war.
Helene Lagerberg


We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other.
Liciano De Crescenzo


We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.
Paul Valery


We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe


We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
Andre Maurois


We do not judge the people we love.
J.P. Satre


We love because it is the only true adventure
anonymous


What an annoying mad thing love is!
Emanuel Schikaneder


What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours. (dedication)
William Shakespeare


What is Love but the Demon inside or is an Angel, with play on his mind? ("First Love")
John A. Zammit


When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.
Arrigo Boito


When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume.
King Tse


When you are down, only her love can save you.
Wisdom H


When you are in love never stop thinking of someone you love.
Wisdom H


When you are in love, it makes you have a lot of energy.
Wisdom H


When you have a struggle keep thinking of her.
Wisdom H


When you kiss me, without uttering a single word, you speak to my soul.
unknown


When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
Elizabeth Cameron


When you love her, everything she does is beautiful.
Wisdom H


Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi


Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes


Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
Christopher Marlowe


Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
Japanese proverbs


Whom we love best, to them we can say least.
English proverbs


Why did I love her? Because it was her; because it was me.
Montaigne


Wild Nights! Wild Nights! were I with thee- Wild Nights would be our luxury-- Futile the winds to a heart in port, Gone with the compass-- Gone with the chart-- Rowing in Eden..Ah the Sea! Might I but moor-- Tonight in thee
Emily Dickinson


Without love, the world itself would not survive.
Lope de Vega


Women the unfathomable, I have loved and been loved.
Ian Pires


Women were made to be loved not to be understood.
Oscar Wilde


You are my love, my life ... my world.
Michelle Lozada


You are the answer to every prayer I've said. I couldn't have made you more perfect if I tried. You have become a thief and stolen my heart. Please don't be a vandal and break it.
Angelina Kristine


You complete me.
Jerry Maguire


You don't get to choose, You just fall.
anonymous


You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
unknown


You may forget the face of the beloved, but not his kiss.
unknown


You want to know how great my love is? Count the waves.
unknown


You're not the only one who feels this way.
Ammonia

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