Love and Hate
114 aphorisms · 13 comments
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tiny.ag/qhoyi5e6 · submitted 1997
My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
tiny.ag/xjiqthys · 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/qckgltos · submitted 1997
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent.
tiny.ag/mesrxprp · submitted 1997
There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
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/3jhfa42n · submitted 1997
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
tiny.ag/hxz4udr0 · submitted 1997
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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/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/udhekgkz · submitted 1997
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
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/vatwl2hr · submitted 1997
If you love someone, tell them. They won't be the only one glad that you did.
tiny.ag/1kxrzyej · submitted 1997
Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride wortwhile.
tiny.ag/gy6u0a9i · submitted 1997
Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
tiny.ag/dlbjkpva · submitted 1997
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
tiny.ag/oeren2sf · submitted 1997
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
tiny.ag/04lm8ot1 · submitted 1997
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
tiny.ag/re0zqqyo · submitted 1997
Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.
tiny.ag/bggvrf05 · submitted 1997
If you love something, turn it loose. If it doesn't come back, kill it!
tiny.ag/vlhxjtfa · submitted 1999 by Andy Dart
Why would I make one woman so miserable when I can make so many women very happy?
Benny Hill, (when asked why he never married), in Love and Hate
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