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

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

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

Burning desire is the eternal flame.

Doug Horton, in Love and Hate

If you love something, turn it loose. If it doesn't come back, kill it!

Doug Horton, in Altruism and Cynicism and Love and Hate

Love is a given, hatred is aquired.

Doug Horton, in Love and Hate

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Doug Horton, in Love and Hate