O. Henry Quotes

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

You never forget your first love.

These things end,” she said. “They always end. Nobody marries their first love. First love is just that. First. It’s implied that something else will follow.

You don't always marry the love of your 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.

In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

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.

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

I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that.

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.

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.

I think my generation is extremely cynical about love.

When we were writing songs for the Eagles, Don Henley would be involved in some new love relationship, and he was always excited about them. But we were all waiting for the day that they would break up.

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

...even though you said yes to the wrong man, I hope that won't cause you to say no to the right one.

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

I am not against marriage -- I am for love. If love becomes your marriage, good; but don't hope that marriage can bring love. That is not possible. Love can become a marriage. You have to work very consciously to transform your love into a marriage. Ordinarily, people destroy their love. They do EVERYTHING to destroy it and then they suffer. And they go on saying, 'What went wrong?' They destroy -- they do everything to destroy it.

When you think you are in love, you don't want to know about the things that could end it.

If I don't love you, baby, grits ain't groceries.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.