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Love and Hate

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Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.

Cindy Lew, in Love and Hate

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Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in Love and Hate

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Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.

Sophia Loren, in Love and Hate

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Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another.

Henry Louis Mencken, in Love and Hate

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Love cures people; both the ones who give it, and the ones who receive it.

Karl Menninger, in Love and Hate

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My husband gave me a permanent wave, and now he's gone.

Dawn Messer, in Love and Hate

#  ·  ***- Good (one rating)  ·  submitted 1997

If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.

Olin Miller, in Love and Hate

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Michel de Montaigne, in Love and Hate

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The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Mother Teresa, in Love and Hate

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Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets.

Ogden Nash, in Love and Hate

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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

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Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Jules Renard, in Love and Hate

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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.

Rainer Maria Rilke, in Love and Hate

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Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and fans a bonfire.

La Rochefoucauld, in Love and Hate

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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

La Rochefoucauld, in Love and Hate and Success and Failure

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A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.

Helen Rowland, in Love and Hate

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Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

Helen Rowland, in Love and Hate and Men and Women

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There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.

George Sand, in Love and Hate

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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.

George Bernard Shaw, in Love and Hate

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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent.

Socrates, in Love and Hate

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