Love and Hate
114 aphorisms · 13 comments
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101–114 (114)
tiny.ag/6thfwduq · ★★☆☆ Fair (1009 ratings) · 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/toy71ing · ★★☆☆ Fair (893 ratings) · submitted 1997
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
tiny.ag/lkwaonin · ★★☆☆ Fair (106 ratings) · submitted 1997
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
tiny.ag/t9m3smqg · ★★☆☆ Fair (1410 ratings) · submitted 1997
Women make love for love, men make love for lust.
Derrick Harge, in Love and Hate and Men and Women
tiny.ag/m3eo71lp · ★★☆☆ Fair (309 ratings) · submitted 1997
True friendship is like sound health -- the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
tiny.ag/iy02fnsp · ★★☆☆ Fair (766 ratings) · submitted 1997
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
tiny.ag/w4pbwier · ★★☆☆ Fair (1249 ratings) · submitted 1997
Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Love and Hate and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/c5yxdobt · ★★☆☆ Fair (165 ratings) · submitted 1997
In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
tiny.ag/kqiaorlb · ★★☆☆ Fair (411 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
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.
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