Love Quote by Franklin P. Jones

Jones sidesteps the greeting-card premise that love is the hidden engine of history and swaps it for something tougher, and truer: love isn’t the motor; it’s the meaning you assign to the motion. The first sentence punctures a sentimental cliché (“the world goes ’round”) with a journalist’s suspicion of easy explanations. Wars, wages, luck, boredom, inertia - that’s what keeps things moving. Love, in this framing, doesn’t get credit for physics.

Then comes the pivot: love “makes the ride worthwhile.” The metaphor is doing quiet heavy lifting. Life isn’t a quest with a neat moral; it’s a ride - jostling, unpredictable, not particularly designed for your satisfaction. Jones doesn’t deny the chaos. He builds his point on it. Love isn’t positioned as omnipotent; it’s positioned as interpretive. It doesn’t prevent the drop; it changes how you metabolize it.

The subtext is a mid-century realism that mistrusts grand theories and prefers modest but durable consolations. As a journalist, Jones would have had daily evidence that the world operates without tenderness: headlines don’t run on affection. So the line functions as a corrective to romantic inflation. It’s not anti-love; it’s anti-mystification.

What makes the quote work is its calibrated cynicism: it grants the world its indifference, then insists on a human-scale defiance. You can’t control the ride. You can choose what makes it worth staying on.