LOVE, a noun, as defined by the silly and the sentimental...is....
* man's grand delusion that one woman differs from another;
* a sea of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses;
* what Plato described as "a grave mental disease";
* something they say is blind; it's marriage which is the real eye
opener;
* that emotion which is not true until returned;
* that delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and
discovering that she looks like a haddock {John Barrymore};
* what rich countries have in common with the residents of all
third-world countries;
* is like measles; much worse when it comes late in life;
* the most slippery word in the human language; used by knaves to
seduce, by fools for comfort, and by most men to placate the female
of the species;
* the only fire for which there is no insurance;
* an emotion, even if unreturned, has its rainbow;
* the crocodile in the river of desire {Bhartrihari c. 625};
* the only game that two can play and both win;
* the last and most serious of the childhood diseases;
* what makes marriage possible; habit makes it last;
* is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise;
* a disease like measles, we all have to go through it;
* a temporary insanity curable by marriage or the removing of the
patient from the influences under which he or she incurred the
disorder;
* the tie that blinds;
* consists of happiness, given back and forth;
* the only thing that has changed over the millions of years of
playing this game is that trumps have changed from clubs to
diamonds;
* that which makes the world revolve;
* a situation which happens when you think almost as much of another
as you do of yourself;
* is a fan club with only two members;
* the only virtue that can be divided endlessly and still not be
diminished;
* the triumph of imagination over intelligence;
* the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion;
* a strange feeling that comes over a man; when he keeps wanting to
call a girl by his last name;
* is like the action similar to an hourglass: the heart fills as the
brain empties;
* a situation; when it is true, does not mean gazing into each
other's eyes, but looking outward together in the same direction as
life beckons;
* something which combines the two greatest powers on earth; war and
peace;
* the balm that heals the wounds that words make.
--Selected from Good Clean Funnies List.
