Monday, December 8, 2008

Quotes: Love (3)

Love 157 "If love is judged by its visible effects it looks more like hatred than friendship." La Rochfoucauld. 1665. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Love 157 "Love is a kind of warfare." Ovid. 1 BC. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Love 159 "Coquettes know how to please, not how to love, which is why men love them so much." Pierre Marivaux. 1717-18. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Love 163 "A grand passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do." Oscar Wilde. 1891. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Love 163 "Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it." Anatole France. 1894. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Love 196 "I cannot love anyone if I hate myself." Jung. 1953. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

17. Love 176 “ 'Love': a temporary insanity curable by marriage." Ambrose Bierce. Portable Curmudgeon.

Love 176 “ 'Love': the delusion that one woman differs from another." H. L. Mencken. Portable Curmudgeon.

Love 177 "It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well." Charles Bukowski. Portable Curmudgeon.

Love 178 "Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species." W. Somerset Maugham. Portable Curmudgeon.

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