Mark Twain Love Quotations

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.

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.

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

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.

It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.

How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

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.

If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.

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.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday.

Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Sing like no one is listening, LOVE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER BEEN HURT, dance like nobody's watcbing, and live like it's heaven on earth.

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.

Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss SLOWLY. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

A thoroughly beautiful woman and a thoroughly homely woman are creations which I love to gaze upon, and which I cannot tire of gazing upon, for each is perfect in her own line

The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. We are all alike, on the inside.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

In love, you pay as you leave.

Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.