My Love is Like...99 Things

For Valentine's Day, About.com put together a list of 99 metaphors for love. Here are a few of my favorites:

A Pilgrimage
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
(Anita Brookner, interview with Olga Kenyon, 1989)

A Bull
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
(H.L. Mencken, A Little Book in C Major, 1916)

An Exploding Cigar
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
(Lynda Barry)

A Mental Disease
Love is a grave mental disease.
(Plato)

A Migraine
Love is a universal migraine.
A bright stain on the vision
Blotting out reason.
(Robert Graves, "Symptoms of Love")

A Crocodile
Love is a crocodile in the river of desire.
(Bhartṛhari, Śatakatraya, 5th century)

A Foreigner
Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1849)

This last one is, for obvious reasons, my favorite. And it was #88, the number of keys on a piano. I swoon.

And if that isn't enough for your Valentine's Day, About.com also has 100 similes for the word "sweet."