Love and Hate
114 aphorisms · 13 comments
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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/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/8zet9hei · submitted 1997
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and fans a bonfire.
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/0rcgdke8 · submitted 1997
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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/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/snlzrsu1 · 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 · 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/udhekgkz · submitted 1997
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
tiny.ag/5upxjjc2 · submitted 1997
A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.
Don Quinn, in Love and Hate and Men and Women
tiny.ag/e0jqizfw · submitted 1997
If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
tiny.ag/o6zxkels · submitted 1997
Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another.
tiny.ag/h2globzq · submitted 1997
My husband gave me a permanent wave, and now he's gone.
tiny.ag/toy71ing · 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 · submitted 1997
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
tiny.ag/ua3yjc0t · submitted 1999
It is the ordinary women that know something about love. The gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.
tiny.ag/twzqcn7z · submitted 1997
Love cures people; both the ones who give it, and the ones who receive it.
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