Love and Hate

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Oscar Wilde, in Love and Hate

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Oscar Wilde, in Love and Hate

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Douglas Yates, in Love and Hate

A man needs a mistress, just to break the monogamy.

Unknown, in Love and Hate and Men and Women

It is impossible to love and be wise.

Francis Bacon, in Love and Hate

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

Pearl Bailey, in Love and Hate

Reject hatred without hating.

Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, in Love and Hate

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Roland Barthes, in Love and Hate

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Love and Hate

All mankind loves a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Love and Hate

The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another's little lapses.

David Storey, in Love and Hate

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Tennyson, in Love and Hate

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

William Makepeace Thackeray, in Love and Hate

Truth is fiction when spilled from the lips of a man.

Lisa Tillotson, in Love and Hate

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

Lily Tomlin, in Love and Hate

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

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Jules Renard, in Love and Hate

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke, in Love and Hate

Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and fans a bonfire.

La Rochefoucauld, in Love and Hate

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

La Rochefoucauld, in Love and Hate and Success and Failure