“A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.”
Source: Alcestis (438 BC), l. 309
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ancient Athenian playwright -480–-406 BCRelated quotes
“Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness”
William Watson (poet) (1858–1935) English poet, born 1858
England to Ireland, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“[N]o man hates God without first hating himself.”
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
Source: Peace of Soul (1949), Ch. 1, p. 11 http://books.google.com/books?id=ho40AAAAMAAJ&q=%22No+man+hates+God+without+first+hating+himself%22&pg=PA11#v=onepage
“She hated to lie but she hated arguments even more.”
Jane Yolen book Briar Rose
Source: Briar Rose (1992), Chapter 16 (p. 93)
“Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.”
Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author
On Boxing (1987)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
On his stated opposition to the use of the atomic bomb against the Japanese at the end of World War II, as quoted in Newsweek (11 November 1963), p. 107
1960s
“Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.”
W.C. Fields (1880–1946) actor
Although very commonly attributed to Fields, this is derived from a statement that was actually first said about him by Leo Rosten during a "roast" at the Masquer's Club in Hollywood in 1939, as Rosten explains in his book, The Power of Positive Nonsense (1977) "The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields ... is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad."
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Variant: Anyone who hates babies and dogs can't be all bad.