Love and Hate

Her kisses left something to be desired -- the rest of her.

 Unknown, in  Love and Hate

One does not make friends, one recognizes them.

 Unknown, in  Love and Hate

Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin.

 Doug Kenney, in  Love and Hate

Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it.

 Unknown, in  Love and Hate

Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

 Mae West, in  Love and Hate

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

 William Makepeace Thackeray, in  Love and Hate

Good friends stab you in the front.

 Unknown, (from the movie Can't Hardly Wait; sometimes attributed to Oscar Wilde), in  Love and Hate

It is the ordinary women that know something about love. The gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.

 Katharine Hepburn, in  Love and Hate and  Men and Women

Romance is built on illusion, and when we love someone, we love the illusion they have created for us.

 Roger Ebert, (from review of Boys Don't Cry, Oct. 22, 1999), in  Love and Hate

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

 Anaïs Nin, in  Health and Disease and  Love and Hate

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.

 Joan Crawford, in  Love and Hate

Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.

 E. W. Howe, in  Art and Literature and  Love and Hate

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

 Alfred Tennyson, in  Love and Hate

If only bad habits could be broken as easily as hearts!

 Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in  Love and Hate and  Vice and Virtue

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

 Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in  Love and Hate and  Wealth and Poverty

Love: A temporary insanity cureable either by marriage or by removal of the influences under which he incurred the disorder. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than the patient.

 Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in  Love and Hate

Hatred: A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.

 Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in  Love and Hate and  Success and Failure

Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

 Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in  Love and Hate and  Success and Failure

Reject hatred without hating.

 Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, in  Love and Hate

Sex without love is an empty gesture. But as empty gestures go, it is one of the best.

 Woody Allen, Love and Death, in  Love and Hate