H. L. Mencken Quotes

Everyone is having sex until they fall in love. When you fall in love, then it's making love.

Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better.

A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as quickly, very little the worse for wear. On the contrary, a girl who would take love seriously would probably be a good while finding herself in love and would require something beyond mere friendly attentions from a man before she would think of him in that light.

The third error leading to the assumption that there is nothing to be learned about love lies in the confusion between the initial experience of ‘falling’ in love, and the permanent state of being in love, or as we might better say, of ‘standing’ in love.

Being in love is one of the most powerful experiences anyone can have. I think that's why we have crushes when we're younger. Maybe it's how we get ready for real love.

You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame

Some guys fall in love with one girl, I gotta fall for two.

To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love...

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

Men are like that sometimes - if they meet someone and fall in love, it's real, no matter how fast it happened. But if someone falls for a woman they happen to care about, all they do is question the man's intentions.

Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer

You are the one, I think I'm in love... life has begun.

Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.

Falling in love with somebody is like a rush of heroin, and trying to break up with somebodyis like trying to kick heroin.

Love is a very important part of life, and you have to give in to it. But after a while it ceases to be such an important force in life, and that's the time when you should give in to age and stop doing it, if you don't have the impulse any more.

When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love.

Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.

I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love

love at any age takes everything you've got.

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her imagination, and then they both speak of it as an affair of 'the heart.