love

love1 love and a cough cannot be hid proverbial saying, early 14th century.
love begets love proverbial saying, early 16th century; the same idea is found in the Latin tag amor gignit amorem [love produces love].
love in a cottage a marriage made for love without sufficient means to sustain a household. The expression is recorded from the early 19th century, and probably derives from The Clandestine Marriage (1766) by George Colman the Elder (1732–94) and David Garrick (1717–79).
love is blind proverbial saying, late 14th century, earlier in Greek, as in the writings of the Greek poet Theocritus (c.310–c.250 bc). Cupid, the god of love, was traditionally portrayed as blind, shooting his arrows at random, but the saying is generally used to mean that a person is often unable to see faults in the one they love.
love laughs at locksmiths love is too strong a force to be denied by ordinary barriers; proverbial saying, early 19th century. Shakespeare in Venus and Adonis (1593) has, ‘Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, Yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.’ (Compare love will find a way.)
love makes the world go round proverbial saying, mid 19th century, from a traditional French song, c'est l'amour, l'amour, l'amour, Qui fait le monde A la ronde.
love will find a way love is a force which cannot be stemmed or denied (compare love laughs at locksmiths). The saying is recorded from the early 17th century.

See also love2.