Love and Hate

Contention is better than loneliness.

Unknown, in Love and Hate

Good friends stab you in the front.

Unknown, (from the movie Can't Hardly Wait; sometimes attributed to Oscar Wilde), in Love and Hate

Hatred is toxic waste in the river of life.

Unknown, in Love and Hate

Hearts are often broken when words are unspoken.

Unknown, in Love and Hate

Her kisses left something to be desired -- the rest of her.

Unknown, in Love and Hate

I'd like to meet the man who invented sex and see what he's working on now.

Unknown, in Love and Hate and Vice and Virtue

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

Unknown, in Love and Hate

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

Unknown, in Love and Hate

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

Michel de Montaigne, in Love and Hate

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

Mother Teresa, in Love and Hate

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

Ogden Nash, in Love and Hate

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anaïs Nin, in Health and Disease and Love and Hate

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.

Blaise Pascal, in Happiness and Misery and Love and Hate

A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.

Don Quinn, in Love and Hate and Men and Women

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Jules Renard, in Love and Hate

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

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