"Once I spoke the language of the flowers" -- Shel Silverstein

"After momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her." - Dolly Parton

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." -- Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

“Once upon a time there was a girl I knew, who lived across the street. Brown hair, brown eyes. When she smiled, I smiled. When she cried, I cried. Every single thing that ever happened to me that mattered, in some way had to do with her. That day Winnie and I promised each other that no matter what, that we'd always be together. It was a promise full of passion and truth and wisdom. It was the kind of promise that can only come from the hearts of the very young.”

The Wonder Years

"Sex relieves tension - love causes it." -- Woody Allen

"If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance." -- Bern Williams

Bonnie Parker: [to Clyde, after he rebuffs her romantic advances] Your advertising's just dandy... folks would never guess you don't have a thing to sell.

Bonnie and Clyde

Harry Street: I suppose it was the elusiveness of Liz which was her main attraction. She was something to hunt down and trap and capture. The Countess Elizabeth - Frigid Liz - the semi-iceerg from the semi-tropics!

The Snows of Kilmanjaro

"The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love." -- Terence, Roman playwright

Wanda: Let's make love.
Archie: Well, if you absolutely insist...

A Fish Called Wanda

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry." -- Gloria Steinem

"Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners.  Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway." -- Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975

"Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it." -- Morton Hunt

Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic,
nourishing Night!
Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars!
Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!
-- Walt Whitman

Loretta: This food's cold.
Doolittle: That's 'cause it froze on the way over here from the damn restaurant. You want a hot breakfast, you got to come with me.
Loretta: You think I'm going over there with you and all them folks knowin' what we been doin' in here?
Doolittle: Hell's Bells, Loretta. You think this is somethin' the rest of the world ain't caught onto yet? They don't give a damn.

Coal Minner's Daughter

"I've have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way.  And second, let her have it." -- Lyndon B. Johnson

"In the game of love all women are born experts. Whereas most men remain mere novices all their lives." -- Edwin Pugh in The Westminster Gazette

Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: I'm gonna pick me a choice woman and I'm gonna smother her in minks and choke her with diamonds. Boy, I'm gonna be happy. 

Cat on Hot Tin Roof

Don Draper: Let me ask you something, what do woman want?
Roger Sterling: Who cares?

Mad Men