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Love and Hate

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tiny.ag/wvl3nfch  ·  submitted 1997

Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex brings up some pretty good questions.

Woody Allen, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/gewaqimj  ·  submitted 1997

Marriage is the death of hope.

Woody Allen, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/sxvbnrzm  ·  submitted 1997

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

tiny.ag/tuvabnig  ·  submitted 1999

Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.

Woody Allen, in Life and Death and Love and Hate

tiny.ag/lakz6spw  ·  submitted 1997

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Voltaire, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/5eq7usqg  ·  submitted 1997

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

Lily Tomlin, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/uwffbhr3  ·  submitted 1997

Truth is fiction when spilled from the lips of a man.

Lisa Tillotson, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/trqc76bd  ·  submitted 1997

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.

Cindy Lew, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/pry4dane  ·  submitted 1997

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

Tom Lehrer, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/7m6iy0cd  ·  submitted 1997

When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.

D. H. Lawrence, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/lrxegzwj  ·  submitted 1997

If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.

Dorothy Law Nolte, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/yvhq4tf0  ·  submitted 1997

The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another's little lapses.

David Storey, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/ajfs1vcf  ·  submitted 1997

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

Alfred Tennyson, in Love and Hate

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.

William Makepeace Thackeray, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/9qotdgih  ·  submitted 1999

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

Doug Kenney, in Love and Hate

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/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.

Robert Southey, in Love and Hate

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.

Socrates, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/qckgltos  ·  submitted 1997

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent.

Socrates, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/mesrxprp  ·  submitted 1997

There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.

George Sand, in Love and Hate