Love and Hate
114 aphorisms · 13 comments
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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/kh9mihxg · submitted 1997
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
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/3b0kjrvh · submitted 1997
Helpmate: A wife, or bitter half.
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/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/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/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/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/lakz6spw · submitted 1997
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
tiny.ag/mesrxprp · submitted 1997
There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
tiny.ag/hxz4udr0 · submitted 1997
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
tiny.ag/udhekgkz · submitted 1997
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
tiny.ag/k6uogmqd · submitted 1997
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.
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/3jhfa42n · submitted 1997
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
tiny.ag/oeren2sf · submitted 1997
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
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