Love By Mark Twain Quotes

#1. 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.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

#3. 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.

Mark Twain

#4. The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

Mark Twain

#5. Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.

Mark Twain

#6. 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.

Mark Twain

#7. Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile. Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.

Mark Twain

#8. God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand
but He reserves vengeance for His very own.

Mark Twain

#9. After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

Mark Twain

#10. In love, you pay as you leave.

Mark Twain

#11. If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

Mark Twain

#12. The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter ...

Mark Twain

#13. Being in love is like getting back to childhood. You're just happy for no reasons at all.

Mark Twain

#14. I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

Mark Twain

#15. But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

Mark Twain

#16. 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.

Mark Twain

#17. Marriage
yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

Mark Twain

#18. More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.

Mark Twain

#19. One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until
after considerable acquaintance with her.

Mark Twain

#20. Mark Twain is a voice of truth and a voice of equality and a voice of tolerance. Which means he is a voice of love.

Val Kilmer

#21. An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Mark Twain

#23. It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

#25. We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

Mark Twain

#26. I love to hear myself talk, because I get so much instruction and moral upheaval out of it.

Mark Twain

#27. 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.

Mark Twain

#28. Mark Twain fell in love with his wife after he saw her picture painted on an ivory miniature the size of a fingernail.

Jenny Offill

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

Mark Twain

#30. Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again.

Mark Twain

#31. Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

Mark Twain

#32. Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

Mark Twain

#33. I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.

Mark Twain

#34. Love heightens all senses - except the common.

Mark Twain

#35. 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.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain