Love and Hate
114 aphorisms · 13 comments
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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/fxwtpzmn · submitted 1997
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.
tiny.ag/6thfwduq · submitted 1999
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
tiny.ag/vatwl2hr · submitted 1997
If you love someone, tell them. They won't be the only one glad that you did.
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/3jhfa42n · submitted 1997
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
tiny.ag/hxz4udr0 · submitted 1997
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
tiny.ag/8zet9hei · submitted 1997
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and fans a bonfire.
tiny.ag/k6uogmqd · 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/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
tiny.ag/mesrxprp · submitted 1997
There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
tiny.ag/9vuuezdd · submitted 1997
Love and a cough cannot be hidden.
tiny.ag/9qdtckr1 · submitted 1997
Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.
tiny.ag/udhekgkz · submitted 1997
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
tiny.ag/lkwaonin · submitted 1997
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
tiny.ag/ji1h0t57 · submitted 1997
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
tiny.ag/t9m3smqg · submitted 1997
Women make love for love, men make love for lust.
Derrick Harge, in Love and Hate and Men and Women
tiny.ag/ua3yjc0t · submitted 1999
It is the ordinary women that know something about love. The gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.
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
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