Love and Hate
114 aphorisms · 13 comments
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tiny.ag/opp6altk · ★★☆☆ Fair (680 ratings) · 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/snlzrsu1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (741 ratings) · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/3b0kjrvh · ★★☆☆ Fair (210 ratings) · submitted 1997
Helpmate: A wife, or bitter half.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/rfa7bnoi · ★★☆☆ Fair (382 ratings) · 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/tckzdvry · ★★☆☆ Fair (741 ratings) · 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/0rcgdke8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (264 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
tiny.ag/a7h1xcrn · ★★☆☆ Fair (124 ratings) · submitted 1997
Before you find your handsome prince, you have to kiss a lot of frogs.
Unknown, in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/mglnajv0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1274 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is impossible to love and be wise.
tiny.ag/xheulgiy · ★★☆☆ Fair (177 ratings) · submitted 1997
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
tiny.ag/frj2g3hu · ★★☆☆ Fair (581 ratings) · submitted 1997
Reject hatred without hating.
Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/ordtalmq · ★★☆☆ Fair (242 ratings) · submitted 1997
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
tiny.ag/axmzaeli · ★★☆☆ Fair (313 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man needs a mistress, just to break the monogamy.
Unknown, in Love and Hate and Men and Women
tiny.ag/kh9mihxg · ★★☆☆ Fair (132 ratings) · submitted 1997
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
tiny.ag/9wpbcvqn · ★★☆☆ Fair (169 ratings) · submitted 1997
Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
tiny.ag/ydvw0j24 · ★★☆☆ Fair (489 ratings) · submitted 1997
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
tiny.ag/cstcsf2k · ★★☆☆ Fair (480 ratings) · submitted 1997
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
tiny.ag/l5kykzfq · ★★☆☆ Fair (178 ratings) · submitted 1997
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
tiny.ag/lakz6spw · ★★☆☆ Fair (158 ratings) · submitted 1997
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
tiny.ag/5eq7usqg · ★★☆☆ Fair (78 ratings) · submitted 1997
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
tiny.ag/uwffbhr3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (81 ratings) · submitted 1997
Truth is fiction when spilled from the lips of a man.
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