Definitive Quotations: Love & Death

LOVE:

-> The identity of the relativity of the reality of an infinitesimal
portion
of the absolute totality of the infinite being. -Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Hegel
-> A temporary insanity curable by marriage. -Ambrose Bierce
-> A petit-bourgeois prejudice, a defect of capitalism. A psychopathic
occupation which wastes money and time. -Chinese Communist Publication
-> The delusion that one woman differs from another. -H.L. Mencken
-> What happens to a man and a woman who don't know each other. -Somerset
Maugham
-> An itching about the heart that you cannot scratch. -Gaelic saying
-> The greatest indoor sport. -Anon.
-> The last word of a telegram. -Anon.

FRIEND:

-> One who knows all about you and loves you just the same. -Elbert
Hubbard

BAFFONA:

-> Woman with not unpleasing mustache. -Hoare "Short Italian Dictionary"

BACHELOR:

-> The only species of big game for which the license is taken out after
the
hunt. -Thomas Lyness
-> A man who never makes the same mistake once. -Ed Wynn
-> A man who looks but does not leap. -McCardie

GENTLEMAN:

-> A man who wouldn't strike a woman with his hat on. -Evan Esar

CHASTE:

-> Very much in the running. -J. Bailey, H. and J.C. Furnas

DARLING:

-> The popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the
opposite
sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall. -Oliver Herford

MARRIAGE:

-> A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and
through the
nose of the gentleman. -Herbert Spencer
-> A souvenir of love. -Helen Rowland
-> The end of man. -Balzac
-> A feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. -Charles
Caleb Colton
-> A friendship recognized by the police. -Robert Louis Stevenson
-> The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a
mistress,
and two slaves, making, in all, two. -Ambrose Bierce
-> A lottery, licensed by the state and supported by the clergy. -Anon.

SECOND MARRIAGE:

-> The triumph of hope over experience. -Samuel Johnson

DEATH:

-> Nature's way of telling you to slow down. -Anon.

WIDOW:

-> A woman with an angel for a husband. -Anon.

Credit: "Definitive Quotations" by John Ferguson