Love and Hate
114 aphorisms · 13 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
1–20 (114)
tiny.ag/xjiqthys · ★★☆☆ Fair (142 ratings) · 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/vatwl2hr · ★★☆☆ Fair (439 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you love someone, tell them. They won't be the only one glad that you did.
tiny.ag/mesrxprp · ★★☆☆ Fair (113 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
tiny.ag/3jhfa42n · ★★☆☆ Fair (132 ratings) · submitted 1997
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
tiny.ag/r1iq7coe · ★★☆☆ Fair (265 ratings) · 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
tiny.ag/jg3f6les · ★★☆☆ Fair (187 ratings) · submitted 1997
A friend is someone who knows all about you and and still likes you.
tiny.ag/is8fdtaa · ★★☆☆ Fair (1041 ratings) · submitted 1999
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.
tiny.ag/ujvv0yxq · ★★☆☆ Fair (324 ratings) · submitted 1997
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
tiny.ag/e9i2oof8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (110 ratings) · submitted 1997
No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.
tiny.ag/p9dighnt · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
Money is good, love is wealth.
tiny.ag/hafgido3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
Love is a given, hatred is aquired.
tiny.ag/re0zqqyo · ★★☆☆ Fair (121 ratings) · submitted 1997
Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.
tiny.ag/qh2wpltu · ★★☆☆ Fair (384 ratings) · submitted 1997
All mankind loves a lover.
tiny.ag/w4s36qc2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (502 ratings) · submitted 1997
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
tiny.ag/0rcgdke8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (264 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
tiny.ag/tckzdvry · ★★☆☆ Fair (741 ratings) · 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/8zet9hei · ★★☆☆ Fair (138 ratings) · submitted 1997
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and fans a bonfire.
tiny.ag/hxz4udr0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (171 ratings) · submitted 1997
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
tiny.ag/k6uogmqd · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
tiny.ag/snlzrsu1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (741 ratings) · 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
1–20 (114)