Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Dorothy Parker, (Aug 22 1893-1967), US author, poet, journalist, humorist; She was the celebrated caustic wit of the 1920s; wrote Enough Rope, 1926 and The Little Hours, 1944.