There is no reciprocity. Men love women. Women love children, Children love hamsters.
—Alice Thomas Ellis, 1987
2
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
—Charles M. Schulz
3
‘Cause when love is gone, there’s always justice.
And when justice is gone, there’s always force.
And when force is gone, there’s always Mom.
Hi Mom!
—Laurie Anderson, 1981
Love is a kind of warfare.
—Ovid, 2 AD
You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.
—Fedor Dostoevsky, 1880
If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom
you have sacrificed yourself.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903
There is no love without jealousy.
—European proverb
In jealousy, there is more of self-love than of love.
—François de La Rochefoucauld, 1664
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not
worth keeping.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906
***
Love makes time pass away, and time makes love pass away.
—French proverb
The promise of mutual exclusive and everlasting love is a promise that cannot be kept and
should not be made.
—Havelock Ellis, 1928
A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold
on too long.
—Jeph Jacques, 2008
***
2
Sometimes misattributed to Peter Greenway, in whose movie 8½ Women (1999) it was partly
quoted, without a reference.
3
As quoted, without a date, in many sources, including the author’s 1997 compilation of his
Peanuts comic strips.
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—Alice Thomas Ellis, 1987
2
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
—Charles M. Schulz
3
‘Cause when love is gone, there’s always justice.
And when justice is gone, there’s always force.
And when force is gone, there’s always Mom.
Hi Mom!
—Laurie Anderson, 1981
Love is a kind of warfare.
—Ovid, 2 AD
You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.
—Fedor Dostoevsky, 1880
If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom
you have sacrificed yourself.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903
There is no love without jealousy.
—European proverb
In jealousy, there is more of self-love than of love.
—François de La Rochefoucauld, 1664
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not
worth keeping.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906
***
Love makes time pass away, and time makes love pass away.
—French proverb
The promise of mutual exclusive and everlasting love is a promise that cannot be kept and
should not be made.
—Havelock Ellis, 1928
A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold
on too long.
—Jeph Jacques, 2008
***
2
Sometimes misattributed to Peter Greenway, in whose movie 8½ Women (1999) it was partly
quoted, without a reference.
3
As quoted, without a date, in many sources, including the author’s 1997 compilation of his
Peanuts comic strips.
On Love, Family, and Children
123