Love and Hate

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

Pearl Bailey, in Love and Hate

Reject hatred without hating.

Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, in Love and Hate

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Roland Barthes, in Love and Hate

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

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

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

William Blake, in Love and Hate

Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.

Woody Allen, in Life and Death and 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