Love and Hate
114 aphorisms · 13 comments
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tiny.ag/5eq7usqg · submitted 1997
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
tiny.ag/qckgltos · submitted 1997
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent.
tiny.ag/qhoyi5e6 · submitted 1997
My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
tiny.ag/0rcgdke8 · submitted 1997
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
tiny.ag/qcplwznc · submitted 1997
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
tiny.ag/ckjtcepm · submitted 1998
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
tiny.ag/ajfs1vcf · submitted 1997
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
tiny.ag/uwffbhr3 · submitted 1997
Truth is fiction when spilled from the lips of a man.
tiny.ag/yvhq4tf0 · submitted 1997
The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another's little lapses.
tiny.ag/t1upajp8 · submitted 1997
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
tiny.ag/xjiqthys · submitted 1997
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
tiny.ag/rfa7bnoi · submitted 1997
Incompatibility: In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/w4s36qc2 · submitted 1997
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
tiny.ag/qh2wpltu · submitted 1997
All mankind loves a lover.
tiny.ag/vatwl2hr · submitted 1997
If you love someone, tell them. They won't be the only one glad that you did.
tiny.ag/snlzrsu1 · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/3b0kjrvh · submitted 1997
Helpmate: A wife, or bitter half.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/tckzdvry · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/opp6altk · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/r1iq7coe · submitted 1997
Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
Helen Rowland, in Love and Hate and Men and Women
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