Love and Hate
114 aphorisms · 13 comments
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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/o6zxkels · submitted 1997
Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another.
tiny.ag/udhekgkz · submitted 1997
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
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/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/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/oojczsgc · submitted 1997
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
tiny.ag/41gyx5is · submitted 1997
Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.
tiny.ag/mglnajv0 · submitted 1997
It is impossible to love and be wise.
tiny.ag/xheulgiy · submitted 1997
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
tiny.ag/frj2g3hu · submitted 1997
Reject hatred without hating.
Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/ordtalmq · submitted 1997
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
tiny.ag/voscxn53 · submitted 1997
When falling in love, some lose their head, others lose their heart.
Unknown, in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/ikpxuifk · submitted 1997
Her kisses left something to be desired -- the rest of her.
Unknown, in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/v9nue1vj · submitted 1997
Hearts are often broken when words are unspoken.
Unknown, in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/4vfcycxe · submitted 1997
Hatred is toxic waste in the river of life.
Unknown, in Love and Hate
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