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Love and Hate

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tiny.ag/bqsku45n  ·  submitted 1999 by Smilee J.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anaïs Nin, in Health and Disease and Love and Hate

tiny.ag/p6sl3kmh  ·  submitted 1997

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets.

Ogden Nash, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/fnkzalnh  ·  submitted 1997

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Mother Teresa, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/g2xohmoz  ·  submitted 1997

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Michel de Montaigne, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/e0jqizfw  ·  submitted 1997

If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.

Olin Miller, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/twzqcn7z  ·  submitted 1997

Love cures people; both the ones who give it, and the ones who receive it.

Karl Menninger, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/o6zxkels  ·  submitted 1997

Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another.

Henry Louis Mencken, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/lrxegzwj  ·  submitted 1997

If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.

Dorothy Law Nolte, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/7m6iy0cd  ·  submitted 1997

When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.

D. H. Lawrence, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/pry4dane  ·  submitted 1997

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

Tom Lehrer, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/trqc76bd  ·  submitted 1997

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.

Cindy Lew, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/41gyx5is  ·  submitted 1997

Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.

Sophia Loren, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/oojczsgc  ·  submitted 1997

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/0rcgdke8  ·  submitted 1997

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

William Blake, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/tckzdvry  ·  submitted 1997

The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)

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

tiny.ag/9qotdgih  ·  submitted 1999

Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin.

Doug Kenney, in Love and Hate

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/opp6altk  ·  submitted 1997

The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)

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

The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)

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