Love and Hate
114 aphorisms · 13 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
41–60 (114)
tiny.ag/vatwl2hr · ★★☆☆ Fair (439 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you love someone, tell them. They won't be the only one glad that you did.
tiny.ag/xjiqthys · ★★☆☆ Fair (142 ratings) · submitted 1997
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
tiny.ag/cpeiyvlx · ★★☆☆ Fair (128 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house.
tiny.ag/ls96cqfi · ★★☆☆ Fair (90 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man is in love when something in his head, something in his and chest and something in his pants react to a certain woman.
tiny.ag/ngzn3ekd · ★★☆☆ Fair (98 ratings) · submitted 1997
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
tiny.ag/mesrxprp · ★★☆☆ Fair (113 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
tiny.ag/3jhfa42n · ★★☆☆ Fair (132 ratings) · submitted 1997
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
tiny.ag/r1iq7coe · ★★☆☆ Fair (265 ratings) · 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/5upxjjc2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (226 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
tiny.ag/k6uogmqd · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (138 ratings) · submitted 1997
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and fans a bonfire.
tiny.ag/hxz4udr0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (171 ratings) · submitted 1997
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
tiny.ag/e0jqizfw · ★★☆☆ Fair (88 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
tiny.ag/g2xohmoz · ★★☆☆ Fair (123 ratings) · submitted 1997
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.
tiny.ag/fnkzalnh · ★★☆☆ Fair (107 ratings) · submitted 1997
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
tiny.ag/p6sl3kmh · ★★☆☆ Fair (272 ratings) · submitted 1997
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets.
tiny.ag/bqsku45n · ★★☆☆ Fair (955 ratings) · 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/oeren2sf · ★★☆☆ Fair (443 ratings) · submitted 1997
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
tiny.ag/6thfwduq · ★★☆☆ Fair (1009 ratings) · 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
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