* a sea of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses;

* what Plato described as "a grave mental disease";

* something they say is blind; it's marriage which is the real eye opener;

* that emotion which is not true until returned;

* that delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock {John Barrymore};

* what rich countries have in common with the residents of all third-world countries;

* is like measles; much worse when it comes late in life;

* the most slippery word in the human language; used by knaves to seduce, by fools for comfort, and by most men to placate the female of the species;

* the only fire for which there is no insurance;

* an emotion, even if unreturned, has its rainbow;

* the crocodile in the river of desire {Bhartrihari c. 625};

* the only game that two can play and both win;

* the last and most serious of the childhood diseases;

* what makes marriage possible; habit makes it last;

* is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise;

* a disease like measles, we all have to go through it;

* a temporary insanity curable by marriage or the removing of the patient from the influences under which he or she incurred the disorder;

* the only game that is never called on account of darkness;

* the tie that blinds;

* consists of happiness, given back and forth;

* the only thing that has changed over the millions of years of playing this game is that trumps have changed from clubs to diamonds;

* that which makes the world revolve;

* is really just being stupid together;

* a situation which happens when you think almost as much of another as you do of yourself;

* is a fan club with only two members;

* the only virtue that can be divided endlessly and still not be diminished;

* the triumph of imagination over intelligence;

* the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion;

* a strange feeling that comes over a man; when he keeps wanting to call a girl by his last name;

* is like war; simple to begin but the devil to stop;

* is like the action similar to an hourglass: the heart fills as the brain empties;

* something which creates a religion that worships two fallible gods;

* a word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle aged, and the mutual dependence of the old;

* a situation; when it is true, does not mean gazing into each other's eyes, but looking outward together in the same direction as life beckons;

* something which combines the two greatest powers on earth; war and peace;

* the balm that heals the wounds that words make.