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Love and Hate
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# · Unrated · submitted 1999 by S.Skipper (updated 2000)
Good friends stab you in the front.
Unknown, (from the movie Can't Hardly Wait; sometimes attributed to Oscar Wilde), in Love and Hate
# · Not So Good (30 ratings) · submitted 1999
It is the ordinary women that know something about love. The gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.
# · Not So Good (41 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
# · Unrated · submitted 1999 by Smilee J.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Anaïs Nin, in Health and Disease and Love and Hate
# · Not So Good (43 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
# · Not So Good (21 ratings) · submitted 1999
Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
# · Unrated · submitted 1998 (updated 1999)
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
# · Not So Good (62 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999) ·
Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Love and Hate and Wealth and Poverty
The College Blue Book (data CD)# · Not So Good (41 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
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
The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)# · Not So Good (84 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
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
# · Not So Good (46 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
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
# · Not So Good (63 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Reject hatred without hating.
Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, in Love and Hate
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (paperback)# · Not So Good (29 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Sex without love is an empty gesture. But as empty gestures go, it is one of the best.
Woody Allen, Love and Death, in Love and Hate
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1999
Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin.
# · Unrated · submitted 1999 by Megan
Saying you love someone when you don't love yourself is like a naked person offering you a shirt.
# · Not So Good (23 ratings) · submitted 1999
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
# · Not So Good (13 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Andy Dart
Why would I make one woman so miserable when I can make so many women very happy?
Benny Hill, (when asked why he never married), in Love and Hate
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
If you love someone, tell them. They won't be the only one glad that you did.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
The most important thing a father can do for his children is love their mother.
Unknown, in Love and Hate
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