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Love and Hate

114 aphorisms  ·  12 comments

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Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (11 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

[aphorist] Michel de Montaigne, in [category] Love and Hate

Comment#  ·  ***- Good (9 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

[aphorist] Mother Teresa, in [category] Love and Hate

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (185 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets.

[aphorist] Ogden Nash, in [category] Love and Hate

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (776 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Smilee J.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

[aphorist] Anaïs Nin, in [category] Health and Disease and [category] Love and Hate

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (261 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.

[aphorist] Blaise Pascal, in [category] Happiness and Misery and [category] Love and Hate

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (5 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Love cures people; both the ones who give it, and the ones who receive it.

[aphorist] Karl Menninger, in [category] Love and Hate

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (4 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

My husband gave me a permanent wave, and now he's gone.

[aphorist] Dawn Messer, in [category] Love and Hate

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (4 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.

[aphorist] Olin Miller, in [category] Love and Hate

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (54 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another.

[aphorist] Henry Louis Mencken, in [category] Love and Hate

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (20 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] Dorothy Law Nolte, in [category] Love and Hate

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (78 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.

[aphorist] D. H. Lawrence, in [category] Love and Hate

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (171 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] Tom Lehrer, in [category] Love and Hate

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (13 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] Cindy Lew, in [category] Love and Hate

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (51 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

[aphorist] Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in [category] Love and Hate

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (5 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.

[aphorist] Sophia Loren, in [category] Love and Hate

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (418 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

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

[aphorist] Doug Kenney, in [category] Love and Hate

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (59 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

If there is anything better than being loved, it's loving.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Love and Hate

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (896 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.

[aphorist] E. W. Howe, in [category] Art and Literature and [category] Love and Hate

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (82 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A friend is someone who knows all about you and and still likes you.

[aphorist] Elbert Hubbard, in [category] Love and Hate

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (27 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A man is in love when something in his head, something in his and chest and something in his pants react to a certain woman.

[aphorist] Brian Hwang, in [category] Love and Hate

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