Walter Scott Quotes

You got a lot of ladies to get through. You’re still young. First love’s the sweetest, but it doesn’t last.” “Not ever?” I ask. Grandad looks at me with a seriousness he reserves for moments when he wants me to really pay attention. “When we fall that first time, we’re not really in love with the girl. We’re in love with being in love. We’ve got no idea what she’s really about—or what she’s capable of. We’re in love with our idea of her and of who we become around her. We’re idiots.

Those whom we first love we seldom marry

Love is like the little red toy wagon you get for your Christmas or your sixth birthday. It makes you deliriously happy and you just can't leave it alone. But sooner or later the wheels come off. Then you leave it in a corner and forget it. Falling in love is great. Being in love is a disaster

You never forget your first love.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.

Love makes you blind. One day you're in love, the next day you wake up and realize that not everything is perfect.

When you're in love, you put up with things that, when you're out of love you cite.

I love love and falling in love, but it can get pretty flat real fast.

Love is the most beautiful thing in the world. Unfortunately, it's also one of the hardest things in the world to hold on to, and one of the easiest things to throw away.

Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.

But common sense has no place in first love and never has.

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sister's friends can't or won't. But the youth who marries her, expecting that all her departures from convention will be as agile or as delightful to him as that, is still the classic example of folly.

But I had been in love pretty often and I didn't think it stood the wear and tear.