Love and Hate
114 aphorisms · 13 comments
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tiny.ag/cstcsf2k · submitted 1997
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
tiny.ag/l5kykzfq · submitted 1997
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
tiny.ag/9wpbcvqn · submitted 1997
Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
tiny.ag/lakz6spw · submitted 1997
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
tiny.ag/kh9mihxg · submitted 1997
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
tiny.ag/ydvw0j24 · submitted 1997
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
tiny.ag/5eq7usqg · submitted 1997
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
tiny.ag/uwffbhr3 · submitted 1997
Truth is fiction when spilled from the lips of a man.
tiny.ag/t1upajp8 · submitted 1997
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
tiny.ag/ajfs1vcf · submitted 1997
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
tiny.ag/yvhq4tf0 · submitted 1997
The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another's little lapses.
tiny.ag/ckjtcepm · submitted 1998
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
tiny.ag/qcplwznc · submitted 1997
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
tiny.ag/qhoyi5e6 · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/qckgltos · submitted 1997
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent.
tiny.ag/ua3yjc0t · submitted 1999
It is the ordinary women that know something about love. The gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.
tiny.ag/9vuuezdd · submitted 1997
Love and a cough cannot be hidden.
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.
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