Love and Hate
114 aphorisms · 13 comments
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tiny.ag/8zet9hei · submitted 1997
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and fans a bonfire.
tiny.ag/hxz4udr0 · submitted 1997
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
tiny.ag/3jhfa42n · submitted 1997
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
tiny.ag/r1iq7coe · 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
tiny.ag/mesrxprp · submitted 1997
There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
tiny.ag/kqiaorlb · submitted 1997
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
tiny.ag/g2xohmoz · submitted 1997
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.
tiny.ag/fnkzalnh · submitted 1997
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
tiny.ag/p6sl3kmh · submitted 1997
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets.
tiny.ag/ordtalmq · submitted 1997
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
tiny.ag/mglnajv0 · submitted 1997
It is impossible to love and be wise.
tiny.ag/xheulgiy · submitted 1997
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
tiny.ag/frj2g3hu · submitted 1997
Reject hatred without hating.
Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/o6zxkels · submitted 1997
Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another.
tiny.ag/twzqcn7z · submitted 1997
Love cures people; both the ones who give it, and the ones who receive it.
tiny.ag/h2globzq · submitted 1997
My husband gave me a permanent wave, and now he's gone.
tiny.ag/e0jqizfw · submitted 1997
If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
tiny.ag/6thfwduq · submitted 1999
Romance is built on illusion, and when we love someone, we love the illusion they have created for us.
Roger Ebert, (from review of Boys Don't Cry, Oct. 22, 1999), in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/w4s36qc2 · submitted 1997
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
tiny.ag/qh2wpltu · submitted 1997
All mankind loves a lover.
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