Love and Hate

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

David Storey, in Love and Hate

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

Alfred Tennyson, in Love and Hate

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

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

Lisa Tillotson, in Love and Hate

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

Lily Tomlin, in Love and Hate

A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.

Helen Rowland, in Love and Hate

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

Helen Rowland, in Love and Hate and Men and Women

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

George Sand, in Love and Hate

If you love someone, tell them. They won't be the only one glad that you did.

Jamie C. Scott, in Love and Hate

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.

George Bernard Shaw, in Love and Hate

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

Socrates, in Love and Hate

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

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

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

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke, in Love and Hate

Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and fans a bonfire.

La Rochefoucauld, in Love and Hate

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

La Rochefoucauld, in Love and Hate and Success and Failure

It is impossible to love and be wise.

Francis Bacon, in Love and Hate

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

Pearl Bailey, in Love and Hate

Reject hatred without hating.

Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, in Love and Hate