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Love and Hate

114 aphorisms  ·  13 comments

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tiny.ag/5upxjjc2  ·  submitted 1997

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

tiny.ag/oeren2sf  ·  submitted 1997

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.

Blaise Pascal, in Happiness and Misery and Love and Hate

tiny.ag/bqsku45n  ·  submitted 1999 by Smilee J.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anaïs Nin, in Health and Disease and Love and Hate

tiny.ag/o6zxkels  ·  submitted 1997

Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another.

Henry Louis Mencken, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/41gyx5is  ·  submitted 1997

Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.

Sophia Loren, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/oojczsgc  ·  submitted 1997

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/trqc76bd  ·  submitted 1997

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.

Cindy Lew, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/pry4dane  ·  submitted 1997

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

Tom Lehrer, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/7m6iy0cd  ·  submitted 1997

When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.

D. H. Lawrence, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/lrxegzwj  ·  submitted 1997

If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.

Dorothy Law Nolte, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/w4s36qc2  ·  submitted 1997

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/qh2wpltu  ·  submitted 1997

All mankind loves a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/fxwtpzmn  ·  submitted 1997

Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.

R. Drabek, in Love and Hate and Science and Religion

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/voscxn53  ·  submitted 1997

When falling in love, some lose their head, others lose their heart.

Unknown, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/gy6u0a9i  ·  submitted 1997

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Douglas Jerrold, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/h2globzq  ·  submitted 1997

My husband gave me a permanent wave, and now he's gone.

Dawn Messer, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/twzqcn7z  ·  submitted 1997

Love cures people; both the ones who give it, and the ones who receive it.

Karl Menninger, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/9qotdgih  ·  submitted 1999

Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin.

Doug Kenney, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/e0jqizfw  ·  submitted 1997

If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.

Olin Miller, in Love and Hate