Love and Hate
114 aphorisms · 13 comments
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41–60 (114)
tiny.ag/cstcsf2k · ★★☆☆ Fair (480 ratings) · submitted 1997
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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/kh9mihxg · ★★☆☆ Fair (132 ratings) · submitted 1997
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
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/yvhq4tf0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (71 ratings) · submitted 1997
The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another's little lapses.
tiny.ag/ajfs1vcf · ★★☆☆ Fair (399 ratings) · submitted 1997
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
tiny.ag/t1upajp8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (59 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
tiny.ag/uwffbhr3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (81 ratings) · submitted 1997
Truth is fiction when spilled from the lips of a man.
tiny.ag/5eq7usqg · ★★☆☆ Fair (78 ratings) · submitted 1997
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
tiny.ag/kqiaorlb · ★★☆☆ Fair (411 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
tiny.ag/vatwl2hr · ★★☆☆ Fair (439 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you love someone, tell them. They won't be the only one glad that you did.
tiny.ag/xjiqthys · ★★☆☆ Fair (142 ratings) · submitted 1997
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
tiny.ag/qckgltos · ★★☆☆ Fair (95 ratings) · submitted 1997
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent.
tiny.ag/qhoyi5e6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (97 ratings) · submitted 1997
My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
tiny.ag/qcplwznc · ★★☆☆ Fair (82 ratings) · submitted 1997
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
tiny.ag/ckjtcepm · ★★☆☆ Fair (1026 ratings) · submitted 1998
If only bad habits could be broken as easily as hearts!
Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in Love and Hate and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/udhekgkz · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
tiny.ag/k6uogmqd · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · 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/8zet9hei · ★★☆☆ Fair (138 ratings) · submitted 1997
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and fans a bonfire.
tiny.ag/hxz4udr0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (171 ratings) · submitted 1997
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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