Love and Hate
114 aphorisms · 13 comments
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tiny.ag/w4pbwier · submitted 1997
Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Love and Hate and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/iy02fnsp · submitted 1997
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
tiny.ag/m3eo71lp · submitted 1997
True friendship is like sound health -- the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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/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/0rcgdke8 · submitted 1997
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
tiny.ag/a7h1xcrn · submitted 1997
Before you find your handsome prince, you have to kiss a lot of frogs.
Unknown, in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/t37feygj · submitted 1997
Contention is better than loneliness.
Unknown, in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/kh9mihxg · submitted 1997
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
tiny.ag/axmzaeli · submitted 1997
A man needs a mistress, just to break the monogamy.
Unknown, in Love and Hate and Men and Women
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/ydvw0j24 · submitted 1997
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
tiny.ag/9wpbcvqn · submitted 1997
Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
tiny.ag/kqiaorlb · submitted 1997
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
tiny.ag/opp6altk · submitted 1997
Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Love and Hate and Success and Failure
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/lakz6spw · submitted 1997
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
tiny.ag/3jhfa42n · submitted 1997
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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