H. L. Menken. To be in love is to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia, to mistake an ordinary
young man for a Greek god, or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
Ambrose Vies. Love. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
James Nicol. The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that the
English language is as pure as a cribhouse whore. It not only borrows from other languages,
it has, on occasion, chased other languages down dark alleyways, clubbed them unconscious,
and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary.