Jaded and Cynical Love Quotes

If you've been in love in the past, you can probably agree that it's different from what you are experiencing now. It's not the same. It's not as good. And if you're in love now, you can probably agree that it's different from what you've had in the past. It's not the same. It's not as good.

Love: an ocean of emotions surrounded entirely by expenses. -- Thomas R. Dewar

One should always be in love. That is the reason that one should never marry. -- Oscar Wilde

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. -- Benjamin Disraeli

The lover who marries his mistress only because he cannot gain her on easier terms has just as much generosity as the highwayman who leaves a traveler in possession of his money because he is not able to take it from him. -- Lennox

Men dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake!--POPE.

Love and war are the same thing. -- Cervantes

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all. -- Edgar Saltus

The way through a woman's heart is through your wallet. -- Frank Dane

There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting, -- Moliere

Monotony: the system that allows a man only one wife. -- Oliver Herford

The woman cries before the wedding, the man afterward. - Polish proverb.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. -- La Rochefoucauld

Men were born to lie, and women to believe them. -- John Gay (1685-1732)

In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take advantage of the enemy. -- Samuel Johnson

There is a French saying, "Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love." -- De Finod

The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters. -- Genghis Kahn, 1226

Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love. -- La Bruyere

Love is a hole in the heart. -- Ben Hecht

Love is a word that is constantly heard,
Hate is a word that is not.
Love, I am told, is more precious than gold.
Love, I have read, is hot.
But hate is the verb that to me is superb,
And Love but a drug on the mart.
Any kiddie in school can love like a fool,
But Hating, my boy, is an Art.
-Ogden Nash

Never love with all your heart, it only ends in aching. -- Countee Cullen

A CURE FOR LOVE: Take twelve ounces of dislike, one pound of resolution, two grains of common sense, two ounces of experience, a large sprig of time, and three quarts of cooling water of consideration. Set them over a gentle fire of love, sweeten it with sugar of forgetfulness, skim it with the spoon of melancholy, put it in the bottom of your heart, cork it with the cork of clean conscience. Let it remain and you will quickly find ease and be restored to your senses again. These things can be had of the apothecary at the house of Understanding next door to Reason, on Prudent street.

Matrimony is the most delicious state of life a man can enjoy. When all other amusements grow dull and insipid, he can always find an inexhaustible fund of entertainment in tormenting his wife. -- Anonymous, The Egg

Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long. -- William Congreve

Generally the woman chooses the man who will choose her. -- Paul Geraldy

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