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  1. #11
    ye to some extent they are. Everyone's got a diff. point of view buh for me to some extent they are on equal parameters because with both ur main goal is to win. Therefore you sometimes are ready to cross all your limits for that ultimate win. You might not know you're crossing limits at the moment buh still u do it anyway... buh than again i wunna knw wut why u guys think they can't be on equal terms. Yes it's true that love and war are different feelings buh overall ur aim in both o em is the same.

  2. #12
    May i ask glamourous...wat are we winning... Is our main goal to win him/her...when we know that we are at war against our own ppl...and specially when we know that we dont hve to win him...when he/she is already there for us...

    Sikander...may be this quote is not for outer forces...but inner forces...wat u say



  3. #13
    Yea, everything is fair in love and war means do watever is takes to WIN, like GL said...winning ur love, and winning a battle, fight, war, etc. This involves giving ur all and having a passion to just get wat u want cuz ur crazy bout getting it. Thats wat it means, but I think its not such a great quote becuz it displays selfishness and ignorance, and I dont agree with it.
    ~Ye Dard Ka Tufaan Guzra kyu nahi..Dil Toot Gayaa Hai To Bikhra kyu nahi..Ek Hi Shakhs Ko Chahta Hai kyu Itna..Koi Dusra Is Dil Me Utarta kyu nahi~

  4. #14
    First of all, the proverb is " All Is Fair In Love and War"
    I believe...that there can be a reason for every proverb that has gone through our eyes..nothing is useless when it comes to reading...and when it becomes a saying ...then obviously it has a history too...lets find its origin...the base root of this proverb.

    The Sources in History

    1)from Chaucer in Troilus and Criseyde (c.1380). But, the saying has a long history in various forms that justifies cheating:

    'But now ne enforce I me nat in shewinge
    How the ordre of causes stant; but wel wot I,
    That it bihoveth that the bifallinge
    Of thinges wist biforen certeynly
    Be necessarie, al seme it not ther-by
    That prescience put falling necessaire
    To thing to come, al falle it foule or faire.
    ~excerpt from Troilus and Criseyde, by Geoffrey Chaucer

    there are other sources in which he didnot exactly used these words but had almost similar meaning...and to tell u the truth...there is no origin of the thought...only variations presents as a guide to know...

    'But wene ye that every wrecche woot
    The parfit blisse of love? Why, nay, y-wis;
    They wenen al be love, if oon be hoot;
    Do wey, do wey, they woot no-thing of this!
    Men mosten axe at seyntes if it is
    Aught fair in hevene; Why? For they conne telle;
    And axen fendes, is it foul in helle
    .'
    ~excerpt from Troilus and Criseyde, by Geoffrey Chaucer


    2)1579-John Lyly in Euphues: Both might and mallice, deceyte and treacherye, all periurye, any impietie may lawfully be committed in loue, which is lawlesse.



    http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/2771/quotes.html


    3)1623-Fletcher and Massinger in The Lover's Progress, Act V, sc. 2: All stratagems/In love, and that the sharpest war, are lawful.



    http://www.geocities.com/PicketFence/7608/sayA.htm


    4)1677-Aphra Behn in The Emperor of the Moon, Act I, sc. 3: Advantages are lawful in love and war.

    http://list.gatech.edu/archives/lcc3303o/0082.html
    http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Read.../Behn/oroonoko





    5)1835-First appeared in U.S. in Horseshoe Robinson.


    http://www.ags.uci.edu/~ishmael/makingan.htm



  5. #15
    Don't Have much Time to Read ^ that...then read this...

    All's fair in love and war

    The "All is fair" phrase means that all and any actions are fair (reasonable). No rules apply. The "In love and war" phrase is a short description of life and the world we live in. As one person stated it "The rules of fair play do not apply in love and war". The saying "Alls fair in love and war" is usually used in a light hearted way to describe some action that is a little unusual for the circumstances in which it took place.http://tww.id.au/pro/origin.html



  6. #16
    thank you rahen sis for taking the time to share the whole thing with us. I read it and now sorta after readin the whole thing, i mite wunna agree with u hehehhe.. pretty confusin statement who eva came up with it

  7. #17
    yeah...and u will notice glamourous that no one actuallly used them..but had their variations kind of...



  8. #18
    it's an interesting argument.

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