37 Funny Love Quotes to Share With Your Beloved

Love cannot survive without a sense of humor. Laughter is the spark that keeps relationships alive and can create lasting memories. Famous writers and historical figures have left us with many statements about love that will leave you smiling.

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Helen Gurley Brown

"Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator."

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Albert Einstein

"Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed."

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Sigmund Freud

"The great question...which I have not been able to answer...is, 'What...does a woman want?'"

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Samuel Johnson

"Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience."

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Judith Viorst

"Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia."

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Agatha Christie

"An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her."

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Remy de Gourmont

"Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last."

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Mignon McLaughlin

"Mumps, measles and puppy love are terrible after 20."

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Erma Bombeck

"Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery."

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Michel de Montaigne

Portrait of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne — Stefano Bianchetti / Getty Images

"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband."

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Rick Reilly

"The best thing to ever happen to marriage is the pause-live-TV button."

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Janet Periat

"Husbands and wives are so irritating. But without them, who would we blame for misplacing our socks?"

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Ogden Nash

"To keep your marriage brimming,

With love in the loving cup,

Whenever you're wrong, admit it;

Whenever you're right, shut up."

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Janet Periat

"Why do married people live longer than single people? I think it's because married people make a special effort to live longer than their partner—just so they can have the last word."

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Winston Churchill

"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to persuade my wife to marry me."

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Rose Franken

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

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Blaise Pascal

"The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing."

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Christopher Marlowe

"Money can’t buy love, but it improves your bargaining position."

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Jules Renard

"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties."

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Nick Hornby

"It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party."

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Friedrich Nietzsche

"A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love."

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Oscar Wilde

"Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.“

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John Green

"The Venn diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t wanna date is a circle.”

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Robert Fulghum

"When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love."

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W. Somerset Maugham

"Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species."

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James Montgomery Bailey

"When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions, it is safe to pronounce them engaged."

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Nicholas Sparks

"Love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime."

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Helen Rowland

"Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning a handspring or eating with chopsticks; it looks easy until you try it."

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Franklin P. Jones

"Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.“

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Paul Valery

"Love is being stupid together."

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Arturo Toscanini

"I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven’t had time for tobacco since."

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Mark Twain

"When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain."

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Albert Einstein

“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”

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Sophie Monroe

"The brain is the most outstanding organ. It works 24/7, 365 from birth until you fall in love."

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Judith Viorst

"Love is the same as like except you feel sexier."

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Albert Einstein

"Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love."

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H.L. Mencken

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop."

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