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 AlanF_US AlanF_US March 9, 2019 March 9, 2019 at 4:16:44 PM UTC link Permalink

Love is like the moon, when it does not grow, it wanes. ->

Love is like the moon. When it does not grow, it wanes. OR
Love is like the moon; when it does not grow, it wanes.

By the way, there's a verb "wax" that is equivalent to "grow" and is often found in pairs with "wane".

Ricardo14 Ricardo14 March 9, 2019 March 9, 2019 at 7:51:36 PM UTC link Permalink

Whoa! Thanks a million!

AlanF_US AlanF_US March 9, 2019 March 9, 2019 at 11:14:06 PM UTC link Permalink

You're very welcome.

CK CK March 9, 2019, edited March 10, 2019 March 9, 2019 at 11:29:25 PM UTC, edited March 10, 2019 at 12:02:49 AM UTC link Permalink

For me, this gets one hit with a Google search.

https://www.google.com/search?q...%2C+it+wanes."

The Kaplan Herald from Kaplan, Louisiana on May 15, 1991

The Portuguese gets a few hundred hits.
https://www.google.com/search?q...ce%2C+mingua."


Something similar in English in
The New-York Literary Gazette and American Athenaeum
1827

https://books.google.co.jp/book...%20wax&f=false

Something similar on this page, crediting Viscount de Ségur, a 19th century French writer.

http://www.centrochiaralubich.o...xing-moon.html

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This sentence was initially added as a translation of sentence #5484661O amor é como a lua, quando não cresce, mingua..

Love is like the moon, when it does not grow, it wanes.

added by Ricardo14, April 7, 2018
➜ #5484661O amor é como a lua, quando não cresce, mingua.

linked by Ricardo14, April 7, 2018
➜ #7497224عشق مانند ماه است، هنگامی که رشد نکند، تقلیل می‌یابد.

linked by cojiluc, November 23, 2018
Love is like the moon; when it does not wax, it wanes.

edited by Ricardo14, March 9, 2019
➜ #7803416Kærlighed er som månen; når den ikke er i tiltagende, er den i aftagende.

linked by danepo, March 10, 2019
➜ #7803421Kærlighed er som månen; når den ikke er i tiltagen, er den i aftagen.

linked by danepo, March 10, 2019
➜ #7803425Amo estas kiel la Luno; kiam ĝi ne estas kreskanta, ĝi estas malkreskanta.

linked by danepo, March 10, 2019
➜ #7803426Amo estas kiel la Luno; kiam ĝi ne kreskantas, ĝi malkreskantas.

linked by danepo, March 10, 2019
➜ #10672552Rakkaus on kuin kuu: silloin kun se ei kasva, se vähenee.

linked by Silja, February 13, 2022
➜ #10675637Kärlek är som månen; när den inte är i tilltagande är den i avtagande.

linked by morbrorper, February 15, 2022
➜ #10694866L'amour est comme la lune ; lorsqu'elle ne croît pas, elle décroît.

linked by Micsmithel, February 27, 2022
➜ #10706177Liefde is als de maan; wordt ze niet groter, dan wordt ze kleiner.

linked by Micsmithel, March 6, 2022
➜ #5484663Любовь как луна: если не растёт, убывает.

linked by ddnktr, April 2, 2022