Love Notes with Therese Borchard: February 2009 Archives

"Love is not merely blind but mentally afflicted."

--Alice Thomas Ellis

"Falling in love is a condition, keeping in love an art."

--Mary Garden

"There are three kinds of kissers: the fire extinguisher, the mummy, and the vacuum clear."

--Helen Gurley Brown

"Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature."

--Marilyn Monroe

"A good man doesn't just happen. They have to be created by us women .... So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho rap that they pick up from beer commercials."

--Roseanne Barr

"When the only place a relationship wholly works is in bed, both people eventually get nervous ... because they have to get out of bed."--Erica Jong...

"The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents, and none of the incidents as disasters."--Harold Nicolson...

"Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid."--Harlan Miller...

"When a man and a woman marry, they decide to become one. Of course, they must decide which one, and that is often where the storm starts."--Pierce Harris...

"Men who have pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry."--Rita Rudner...

"A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones."--Cher...

"A marriage without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs--jolted by every bump in the road."--Henry Ward Beecher...

"If love is the answer, can you rephrase the question?"--Lily Tomlin...

"A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers."--Robert Quillen...

"Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves."--Madeleine L'Engle...

"Love is something sent from Heaven to sorry the hell out of you."--Dolly Parton...

"The more emotionally mature we are, the fewer demands we make upon others, and the more capable we are of being concerned about others and their needs."--Cecil Osborne...

"Communication between two human beings can be confusing, especially if one is the husband and the other is the wife."--Mack and Brenda Timberlake...

"For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things."--Lorrie Moore...

"Sometimes love doesn't come to us. We have to go out hunting. It's like pigs looking for truffles. It's called dating."--Patti LuPone...

"An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.--Agatha Christie...

"Express appreciation for each other. Accepting each other makes a stable marriage. Appreciating each other, however, makes a sensational marriage."--Brett Selby...

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction."--Antoine de Saint-Exupery...

"You have to distinguish between love and infatuation. That's difficult because they both involve a throbbing organ."--Me...

"Couples who frequently pray together are twice as likely as those who pray less often to describe their marriages as being highly romantic. And get this--married couples who pray together are 90 percent more likely to report higher satisfaction with...

"Sex is the most fun I ever had without laughing."--Woody Allen...

"Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love. .... You never know anyone until you marry them."--Eleanor Roosevelt...