Judith Martin Quotes

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.

I love you' really is the gateway drug of breaking up.

And the more you love someone, the safer it is to be mad at them. Love can handle mad, no problem.

You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.

All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

I think a certain degree of pessimism is actually helpful to love.

Everybody writes about love and cheating and heartbreak. We've done all that.

Everyone is having sex until they fall in love. When you fall in love, then it's making love.

How many times could you give up on someone you loved?

When you think you are in love, you don't want to know about the things that could end it.

Only love can break your heart.

That's why I called it Dangerously In Love. It's basically all of the steps in a relationship from when you first meet a guy to realizing you're interested to dancing with him the first night to thinking that you're in love to realizing that you're now a little open to making love to breaking up to having to love yourself after the breakup. All of that. A celebration of love.

Sometimes you forgive people simply becuase you still want them in your life.

You don't always marry the love of your life.

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

It isn't possible to love and to part.

Those whom we first love we seldom marry

People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.

You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand." "If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.

If I don't love you, baby, grits ain't groceries.

We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be weeping.

Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?