Affection Quote by Ambrose Bierce

I know nothing about platonic love except that it is not to be found in the works of Plato.

— Edgar Jepson

Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

— Samuel Richardson

Platonic love is love from the neck up.

— Thyra Samter Winslow

In Greek, we do not use just one word for love. We have many words that are specific to each type of love.

— Yanni

“For Plato, the quickening of the heart that occurred when a person saw his or her loved one was just a step in the…

— Stephen Amidon

Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and higher, elating…

— Elif Safak

At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity…

— Bill Bryson

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

— Ambrose Bierce

Love: A term which has no meaning if defined.

— John Ralston Saul

“In essence, love makes no sense, In fact, there is more nonsense than sense in love. Great philosophers - Socrates, Plato and Aristotle alike,…

— Devi di Guida

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It…

— Ambrose Bierce

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton