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Love and Hate

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#  ·  ---- Unrated  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.

Blaise Pascal, in Happiness and Misery and Love and Hate

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (8 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex brings up some pretty good questions.

Woody Allen, in Love and Hate

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (10 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Marriage is the death of hope.

Woody Allen, in Love and Hate

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (16 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

It is impossible to love and be wise.

Francis Bacon, in Love and Hate

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (10 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997  · 

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

Pearl Bailey, in Love and Hate

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (34 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

Roland Barthes, in Love and Hate

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (11 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Helpmate: A wife, or bitter half.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Love and Hate

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (145 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

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (41 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

William Blake, in Love and Hate

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (62 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997  · 

If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.

Anton Chekhov, in Love and Hate

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (22 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

True friendship is like sound health — the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Charles Caleb Colton, in Love and Hate

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (11 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.

Baba Dioum, in Love and Hate

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (181 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Math is like love — a simple idea but it can get complicated.

R. Drabek, in Love and Hate and Science and Religion

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (17 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Love and Hate

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (12 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

All mankind loves a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Love and Hate

#  ·  ***- Good (4 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house.

Zsa Zsa Gabor, in Love and Hate

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (7 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Love and Hate

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (4 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

Sacha Guitry, in Love and Hate

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (16 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Women make love for love, men make love for lust.

Derrick Harge, in Love and Hate and Men and Women

#  ·  ***- Good (2 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Thomas Haynes Bayly, in Love and Hate

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