"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

Love writes a letter and sends it to hate.
“My vacations ending I’m coming home late.”
“The weather was fine and the ocean was great.”
“And I can’t wait to see you again.”

Avett Brothers -- The Ballad of Love and Hate

"The heart is the only broken instrument that works." -- T.E. Kalem

"A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everyone sick." -- Mary Wilson Little

"Asking a girl if you may kiss her before doing it is an insulting way of laying all the responsibility on her." -- 'Reflections of a Bachelor Girl' by Helen Rowland

Oh the night, here it comes again
It's on with the jeans, the jacket and the shirt
How'd I end up feeling so bad
For such a little girl
And I hold you close in the back of my mind
Feels so good but damn it makes me hurt
And I'm too scared to know how I feel about you now

La Cienega just smiled
See ya around

Ryan Adams -- La Cienga Just Smiled

"Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast" -- Woody Allen

"I know nothing about sex, because I was always married." -- Zsa Zsa Gabor

"One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with." -- June Carter Cash

 "I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic then to love people." -- Vincent van Gogh

"There's this dividing line between girls who have had sex, and girls who haven't. And all of a sudden you realize you're looking at each other across it." -- My So-Called Life

Happy Valentine's Day

I claim there ain't
Another Saint
As great as Valentine.
-- Ogden Nash

"I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon." -- Author Unknown

kisses are a better fate

than wisdom.
-- e.e. cummings

I'm in love with a girl

Finest girl in the world

I didn't know I could feel this way

Think about her all the time

Always on my mind

I'm in Love with a Girl

Big Star

Mrs. Braddock: What makes you think she wants to marry you?
Benjamin: Oh, she doesn't. To be perfectly honest she doesn't like me. 

The Graduate

Goin' to the chapel and we're gonna get married. 
Goin' to the chapel and we're gonna get married. 
Gee, I really love you and we're, gonna get married. 

Going to the Chapel

Crystals

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment." -- Jane Austen

"When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships." -- Andy Warhol

"When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks." -- Natalie Clifford Barney

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul." -- Marilyn Monroe

Tender love is blind
It requires a dedication
All this love we feel
Needs no conversation
We ride it together, ah-ah
Makin' love with each other, ah-ah

Island in the Stream

Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers

Paul: A beautiful girl is all-powerful and that's as good as love. That's as good as love.

--Beautiful Girls

Every house where love abides

And friendship is a guest,

Is surely home, and home sweet home

For there the heart can rest.

-- Henry Van Dyke