beginnings

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.

How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love's beginning.

Love is like an hourglass with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.

Love is a madness if thwarted it develops fast.

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.

No this trick won't work. . . . How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

I cannot fix on the hour or the spot or the look or the words which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Love is a deep well from which you may drink often but into which you may fall but once.

Love is like war easy to begin but hard to end.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs Being purged a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet A choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.