Love and Hate
114 aphorisms · 13 comments
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tiny.ag/ydvw0j24 · submitted 1997
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
tiny.ag/lakz6spw · submitted 1997
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
tiny.ag/9wpbcvqn · submitted 1997
Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
tiny.ag/l5kykzfq · submitted 1997
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
tiny.ag/cstcsf2k · submitted 1997
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
tiny.ag/gy6u0a9i · submitted 1997
Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
tiny.ag/1kxrzyej · submitted 1997
Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride wortwhile.
tiny.ag/dlbjkpva · submitted 1997
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
tiny.ag/ls96cqfi · 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.
tiny.ag/ngzn3ekd · submitted 1997
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
tiny.ag/0rcgdke8 · submitted 1997
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
tiny.ag/tckzdvry · 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/3b0kjrvh · submitted 1997
Helpmate: A wife, or bitter half.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/snlzrsu1 · 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
tiny.ag/rfa7bnoi · submitted 1997
Incompatibility: In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/t1upajp8 · 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 · submitted 1997
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
tiny.ag/uwffbhr3 · submitted 1997
Truth is fiction when spilled from the lips of a man.
tiny.ag/5eq7usqg · submitted 1997
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
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
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