1865 ‘L. CARROLL’ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ix. ‘“Oh, ‘tis love, ‘tis love
that makes the world go round!”’ ‘Somebody said,’ Alice whispered, ‘that it’s done by
everybody minding their own business.’ 1902 ‘O. HENRY’ in Brandur Mag. 27 Sept. 4
It’s said that love makes the world go round. The announcement lacks verification. It’s
the wind from the dinner horn that does it. 2002 Washington Times 14 Feb. A21 It is a
well-known factoid that love makes the world go ‘round; less well-known is love’s ability
to stop the planet dead flat in midspin when it ends, replacing Paris in the spring with
Chicago in January. loveLOVE me little, love me longa 1500 in Archiv (1900) CVI. 274 Love me lytyll and longe. 1546 J. HEYWOOD
Dialogue of Proverbs II. ii. G1 Olde wise folke saie, loue me lyttle loue me long. 1629 T.
ADAMS Works 813 Men cannot brooke poore friends. This inconstant Charitie is hateful
as our English phrase premonisheth; Loue me Little, and Loue me Long. 1721 J. KELLY
Scottish Proverbs 229 Love me little, love me long. A Dissuasive from shewing too
much, and too sudden Kindness. 1907 Times Literary Supplement 8 Mar. 77 Mrs. Bellew
is a lady who cannot love either little or long. She.. tires very quickly of the men who
are irresistibly drawn to her. 1991 Washington Times 14 Feb. G3 ‘Love me a little less
but longer’ is an old folk phrase. constancy and inconstancy; loveLOVE me, love my dogCf. ST. BERNARD Sermon: In Festo Sancti Michaelis iii. qui me amat, amat et canem
meum, who loves me, also loves my dog; early 14th-cent. Fr. et ce dit le sage qui mayme il
ayme mon chien, and so says the sage, who loves me loves my dog.
a 1500 in Archiv (1893) XC. 81 He that lovyeth me lovyeth my hound. 1546 J.
HEYWOOD Dialogue of Proverbs II. ix. K4V Ye haue bene so veraie [veritable] a hog,
To my frends. What man, loue me, loue my dog. 1692 R. L’ESTRANGE Fables of Aesop
cvi. Love Me, Love my Dog... For there are certain Decencies of Respect due to the
Servant for the Master’s sake. 1826 LAMB Elia’s Last Essays (1833) 262 That you must
love me, and love my dog... We could never yet form a friendship.. without the
intervention of some third anomaly.. the understood dog in the proverb. 2001 Spectator 1
Dec. 28 Sir Michael had agreed to take his new job only on the condition that Mr Bolland
remained at his right hand. ‘It’s a case of love me, love my dog,’ a courtier told me.
associates; loveLOVE will find a way