A post featuring love and roses seems apt for June~

“Ah me!  Love can not be cured by herbs.”

~ Ovid

“But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.”
Anne Bronte

“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
Leo Buscaglia

“And she was fair as is the rose in May.”  (Or June)

Geoffrey Chaucer

“Do I love you because you’re beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?”

~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella

“Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.”  ~Mark Overby

“Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ”

~Malagasy Proverb

“Love – a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.”

~Author Unknown

“Love one another and you will be happy.  It’s as simple and as difficult as that.”

~Michael Leunig

“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it.  You and you alone make me feel that I am alive.  Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ”

~George Moore

~Henry David Thoreau

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”

~Edgar Allan Poe

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”

~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

“We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.”

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.”

~Jean Anouilh

“Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.”

~Rose Franken

“Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.”

~Swedish Proverb

“It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.”

~John Bulwer

“‘Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.” ~Lord Byron

“Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm. ” ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

“Love is the poetry of the senses.”

~Honoré de Balzac

“Love is a game that two can play and both win.”

~Eva Gabor

“Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house.”

~Author Unknown

“We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.”

~Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach, Aphorism

“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”

~François, duc de La Rochefoucauld

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.” ~Elinor Glyn