Love and Hate
114 aphorisms · 13 comments
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tiny.ag/x9edjshw · submitted 1997
Love will make you forget time, and time will make you forget love.
Unknown, in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/wlmqelpi · submitted 1997
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Unknown, in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/sulaqprm · submitted 1997
Marriage is not a word -- it is a sentence.
Unknown, in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/lem4yqnc · submitted 1997
One does not make friends, one recognizes them.
Unknown, in Love and Hate
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/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/gy6u0a9i · submitted 1997
Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
tiny.ag/1kxrzyej · submitted 1997
Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride wortwhile.
tiny.ag/dlbjkpva · submitted 1997
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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/ngzn3ekd · submitted 1997
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
tiny.ag/ls96cqfi · submitted 1997
A man is in love when something in his head, something in his and chest and something in his pants react to a certain woman.
tiny.ag/jg3f6les · submitted 1997
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still likes you.
tiny.ag/tckzdvry · submitted 1997
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/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
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/0rcgdke8 · submitted 1997
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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