Love and Hate
114 aphorisms · 13 comments
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tiny.ag/ji1h0t57 · submitted 1997
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
tiny.ag/9qdtckr1 · submitted 1997
Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.
tiny.ag/9vuuezdd · submitted 1997
Love and a cough cannot be hidden.
tiny.ag/ua3yjc0t · submitted 1999
It is the ordinary women that know something about love. The gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.
tiny.ag/t9m3smqg · submitted 1997
Women make love for love, men make love for lust.
Derrick Harge, in Love and Hate and Men and Women
tiny.ag/lkwaonin · submitted 1997
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
tiny.ag/toy71ing · submitted 1997
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
tiny.ag/cpeiyvlx · submitted 1997
I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house.
tiny.ag/qh2wpltu · submitted 1997
All mankind loves a lover.
tiny.ag/w4s36qc2 · submitted 1997
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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/lakz6spw · submitted 1997
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
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/oeren2sf · submitted 1997
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
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/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/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.
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