Love and Hate
114 aphorisms · 13 comments
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tiny.ag/ydvw0j24 · ★★☆☆ Fair (489 ratings) · submitted 1997
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
tiny.ag/cstcsf2k · ★★☆☆ Fair (480 ratings) · submitted 1997
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
tiny.ag/l5kykzfq · ★★☆☆ Fair (178 ratings) · submitted 1997
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
tiny.ag/9wpbcvqn · ★★☆☆ Fair (169 ratings) · submitted 1997
Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
tiny.ag/lakz6spw · ★★☆☆ Fair (158 ratings) · submitted 1997
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
tiny.ag/qhoyi5e6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (97 ratings) · 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/qckgltos · ★★☆☆ Fair (95 ratings) · submitted 1997
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent.
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/qcplwznc · ★★☆☆ Fair (82 ratings) · 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/yvhq4tf0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (71 ratings) · submitted 1997
The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another's little lapses.
tiny.ag/5eq7usqg · ★★☆☆ Fair (78 ratings) · submitted 1997
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
tiny.ag/uwffbhr3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (81 ratings) · submitted 1997
Truth is fiction when spilled from the lips of a man.
tiny.ag/t1upajp8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (59 ratings) · 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/ajfs1vcf · ★★☆☆ Fair (399 ratings) · submitted 1997
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
tiny.ag/ckjtcepm · ★★☆☆ Fair (1026 ratings) · 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/3jhfa42n · ★★☆☆ Fair (132 ratings) · submitted 1997
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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/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
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