Love and Hate
114 aphorisms · 13 comments
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tiny.ag/tuvabnig · submitted 1999
Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Woody Allen, in Life and Death and Love and Hate
tiny.ag/wvl3nfch · submitted 1997
Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex brings up some pretty good questions.
tiny.ag/gewaqimj · submitted 1997
Marriage is the death of hope.
tiny.ag/sxvbnrzm · submitted 1997
Sex without love is an empty gesture. But as empty gestures go, it is one of the best.
Woody Allen, Love and Death, in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/axmzaeli · submitted 1997
A man needs a mistress, just to break the monogamy.
Unknown, in Love and Hate and Men and Women
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/w4s36qc2 · submitted 1997
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
tiny.ag/qh2wpltu · submitted 1997
All mankind loves a lover.
tiny.ag/9wpbcvqn · submitted 1997
Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
tiny.ag/l5kykzfq · submitted 1997
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
tiny.ag/cstcsf2k · submitted 1997
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
tiny.ag/ydvw0j24 · submitted 1997
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
tiny.ag/kh9mihxg · submitted 1997
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
tiny.ag/fxwtpzmn · submitted 1997
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.
tiny.ag/lakz6spw · submitted 1997
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
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/rfa7bnoi · submitted 1997
Incompatibility: In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/tckzdvry · submitted 1997
Love: A temporary insanity cureable either by marriage or by removal of the influences under which he incurred the disorder. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than the patient.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Love and Hate
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