Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets read more

And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.