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'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Tennyson
A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.
Don Quinn
A friend is someone who knows all about you and and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
Helen Rowland
A man is in love when something in his head, something in his and chest and something in his pants react to a certain woman.
Brian Hwang
A man needs a mistress, just to break the monogamy.
Unknown
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and fans a bonfire.
La Rochefoucauld
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
All mankind loves a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
La Rochefoucauld
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent.
Socrates
Before you find your handsome prince, you have to kiss a lot of frogs.
Unknown
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde
Burning desire is the eternal flame.
Doug Horton
Contention is better than loneliness.
Unknown
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
Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
Helen Rowland
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
Good friends stab you in the front.
Unknown
Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce
Hatred is toxic waste in the river of life.
Unknown
Hatred: A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.
Ambrose Bierce
Hearts are often broken when words are unspoken.
Unknown
Helpmate: A wife, or bitter half.
Ambrose Bierce
Her kisses left something to be desired -- the rest of her.
Unknown
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
Tom Lehrer
I'd like to meet the man who invented sex and see what he's working on now.
Unknown
I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.
Dorothy Law Nolte
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
Lily Tomlin
If only bad habits could be broken as easily as hearts!
Christopher Spranger
If there is anything better than being loved, it's loving.
Unknown
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
Unknown
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
Anton Chekhov
If you love someone, tell them. They won't be the only one glad that you did.
Jamie C. Scott
If you love something, turn it loose. If it doesn't come back, kill it!
Doug Horton
If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
Olin Miller
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
Incompatibility: In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Ambrose Bierce
Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Mae West
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
William Makepeace Thackeray
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
It is impossible to love and be wise.
Francis Bacon
It is the ordinary women that know something about love. The gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.
Katharine Hepburn
Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin.
Doug Kenney
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert
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.
E. W. Howe
Love and a cough cannot be hidden.
George Herbert
Love cures people; both the ones who give it, and the ones who receive it.
Karl Menninger
Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride wortwhile.
Franklin P. Jones
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joan Crawford
Love is a given, hatred is aquired.
Doug Horton
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.
Nick Hertl
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Jules Renard
Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
Douglas Jerrold
Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.
Doug Horton
Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex brings up some pretty good questions.
Woody Allen
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Unknown
Love will make you forget time, and time will make you forget love.
Unknown
Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence.
Unknown
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
Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another.
Henry Louis Mencken
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it.
Unknown
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
Mae West
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.
Michel de Montaigne
Marriage is not a word -- it is a sentence.
Unknown
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets.
Ogden Nash
Marriage is the death of hope.
Woody Allen
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Oscar Wilde
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.
R. Drabek
Money is good, love is wealth.
Doug Horton
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.
Socrates
My husband gave me a permanent wave, and now he's gone.
Dawn Messer
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Robert Southey
No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.
Doug Horton
One does not make friends, one recognizes them.
Unknown
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Eric Hoffer
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
Douglas Yates
Reject hatred without hating.
Mary Baker Eddy
Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.
Cindy Lew
Romance is built on illusion, and when we love someone, we love the illusion they have created for us.
Roger Ebert
Saying you love someone when you don't love yourself is like a naked person offering you a shirt.
Maya Angelou
Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.
Sophia Loren
Sex without love is an empty gesture. But as empty gestures go, it is one of the best.
Woody Allen
She's the kind of woman you could fall madly in bed with.
Unknown
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another's little lapses.
David Storey
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.
Unknown
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
Doug Horton
The most important thing a father can do for his children is love their mother.
Unknown
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Anaïs Nin
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
Brian Hwang
The surest sign that a man is in love is when he divorces his wife.
Unknown
There are two sides to every divorce: yours and the shithead's.
Unknown
There is no difference between a wise man and a fool when they fall in love.
Unknown
There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
George Sand
Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
True friendship is like sound health -- the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
True friendship is seen through the heart, not through the eyes.
Unknown
Truth is fiction when spilled from the lips of a man.
Lisa Tillotson
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
John Heywood
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
Roland Barthes
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
Pearl Bailey
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Sacha Guitry
When falling in love, some lose their head, others lose their heart.
Unknown
When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.
D. H. Lawrence
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
Why would I make one woman so miserable when I can make so many women very happy?
Benny Hill
Women make love for love, men make love for lust.
Derrick Harge