Love and Hate

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

Helpmate: A wife, or bitter half.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Love and Hate

Incompatibility: In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Love and Hate

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

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford, in Love and Hate

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Love and Hate and Wealth and Poverty

In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Baba Dioum, in Love and Hate

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Doug Horton, in Love and Hate

Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.

E. W. Howe, in Art and Literature and Love and Hate

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still likes you.

Elbert Hubbard, in Love and Hate

There are two sides to every divorce: yours and the shithead's.

Unknown, in Love and Hate

There is no difference between a wise man and a fool when they fall in love.

Unknown, in Love and Hate

True friendship is seen through the heart, not through the eyes.

Unknown, in Love and Hate

When falling in love, some lose their head, others lose their heart.

Unknown, in Love and Hate