Discussion Groups / English Usage / November 2006

That we like upbeat, personable people.

It means that everyone is sympathetic to someone in love.

I've seen it as "All the world love a lover" (no s).  Very British.

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This means everyone is likely to like someone
obviously in love.  This common aphorism is the
modernised version of what US author R.W.
Emerson wrote 150 years ago, "All mankind love
a lover" (see dictionaries of quotations.  We see
Emerson treated the collective noun mankind as
plural, not singular.)