Love and Hate
114 aphorisms · 13 comments
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41–60 (114)
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/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/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/3b0kjrvh · submitted 1997
Helpmate: A wife, or bitter half.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/mesrxprp · submitted 1997
There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
tiny.ag/vatwl2hr · submitted 1997
If you love someone, tell them. They won't be the only one glad that you did.
tiny.ag/3jhfa42n · submitted 1997
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
tiny.ag/r1iq7coe · submitted 1997
Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
Helen Rowland, in Love and Hate and Men and Women
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/hxz4udr0 · submitted 1997
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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/udhekgkz · submitted 1997
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
tiny.ag/oeren2sf · submitted 1997
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
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.
tiny.ag/twzqcn7z · submitted 1997
Love cures people; both the ones who give it, and the ones who receive it.
tiny.ag/h2globzq · submitted 1997
My husband gave me a permanent wave, and now he's gone.
tiny.ag/e0jqizfw · submitted 1997
If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
tiny.ag/g2xohmoz · submitted 1997
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.
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