Love Lines

'My love for you is more/ athletic than a verb.'

SYLVIA PLATH,

poet and writer

'Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jiving too.'

B.B. KING,

blues musician

'I love you more than my own skin.'

FRIDA KAHLO,

painter

'Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.'

STEPHEN LEACOCK, humorist and economist

'Romance without finance ain't got no chance.'

CHARLIE PARKER, jazz musician

'Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.'

DOROTHY PARKER, poet and writer

'Everything we do in life is based on...

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