Mark Twain Quotes About Love
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What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.
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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.
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I can live for two months on a good compliment.
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Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.
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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
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Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.
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One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.
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If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.
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A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential - here was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost...It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.
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The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.
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Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.
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Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality
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You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.
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Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.
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Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my lifelong keeping. You cannot see its waves as they flow toward you, darling, but in these lines you will hear...the distant beating of its surf.
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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
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Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.
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