Best Quotes About Relationship (Top 100)
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen
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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
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I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad itseems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned thatyou can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things:a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned thatregardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they'regone from your life. I've learned that making a living is not the same thing asmaking a life. I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on bothhands; you need to be able to throw some things back. I've learned that wheneverI decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I'velearned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned thatevery day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, orjust a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what youdid, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
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Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
Charles Dickens
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When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on—series polygamy—until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.
Tom Robbins
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Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.
Candace Bushnell
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin
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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
Maya Angelou
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Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with
Gillian Anderson
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Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
Margaret Atwood
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Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess
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When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
Donald Miller
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
Anais Nin
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
Mae West
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There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.
Shmuley Boteach
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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey
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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Khalil Gibran
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I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.
Fannie Flagg
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Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
Bill Maher
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw
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Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
Ken Kesey
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if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.
Johnny Depp
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance
Oscar Wilde
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
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I'm single because I was born that way.
Mae West
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The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.
Cher
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Ayn Rand
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My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.
Charlie Chaplin
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We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.
Michael Ondaatje
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde
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Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
Anne Lamott
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
Mae West
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West
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It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
Mae West
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Don't cry for a man who's left you—the next one may fall for your smile.
Mae West
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All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
Mae West
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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey
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Living with integrity means...not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships; asking for what you want and need from others; speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension; behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values; making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.
Barbara de Angelis
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Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.
Oscar Wilde
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All I'm telling you to do is to be smart about it. Know that if this man isn't looking for a serious relationship, you're not going to change his mind just because you two are going on dates and being intimate. You could be the most perfect woman on the Lord's green earth-you're capable of interesting conversation, you cook a mean breakfast, you hand out backrubs like sandwiches, you're independent (which means, to him, that you're not going to be in his pockets)-but if he's not ready for a serious relationship, he going to treat you like sports fish.
Steve Harvey
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde
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The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.
Hugh Walpole
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Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
Henry Winkler
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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry Ford
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So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.
Cornel West
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One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.
Madeleine L'Engle
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Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.
Laozi
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Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller
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You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.
Frederick Buechner
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You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.
Deepak Chopra
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If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
Sue Monk Kidd
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo Tolstoy
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Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.
Ravi Zacharias
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Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger
Sara Evans
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Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
Woody Allen
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar Wilde
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Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.
Mae West
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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
Alain de Botton
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde
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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln
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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi
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You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.
Johnny Depp
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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
William Arthur Ward
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We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Abraham Lincoln
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Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
Umberto Eco
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde
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Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Aristotle
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I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.
Emily Giffin
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A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
Mae West
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In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
Maya Angelou
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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Epicurus
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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
Richard Bach
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Maya Angelou
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People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.
Ian Fleming
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Walter Benjamin
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How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
Margaret Atwood
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Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
William James
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It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
Henry Rollins
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It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.
Emily Giffin
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Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
Immanuel Kant
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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.
Black Elk
Even More Relationship Quotes
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Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.
Sam Levenson
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Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.
Mae West
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When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
William Arthur Ward
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Mark Twain
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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
Gloria Steinem
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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
Mae West
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Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
John Barrymore
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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain
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Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
H. Jackson Brown Jr
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
Victor Borge
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We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
Maya Angelou
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The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.
Diane von Furstenberg
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In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
Carl Rogers
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No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
Albert Einstein
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A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself — to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
Leo F. Buscaglia
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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
Barbara de Angelis
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Muhammad Ali
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
Ayn Rand
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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
Anne Tyler
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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar
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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
Zig Ziglar
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung
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Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.
Matthew Henry
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde
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Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.
Mae West
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It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Anne Sexton
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
Henry James
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung
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Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.
Jane Goodall
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Woody Allen
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Life is relationships; the rest is just details.
Gary Smalley
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde
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The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.
Deepak Chopra
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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Robert Southey
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A man's kiss is his signature.
Mae West
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A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself — to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart
Leo Buscaglia
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Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.
Robert Bloch
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
Aberjhani
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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer
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When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Nora Ephron
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Gautama Buddha
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham Lincoln
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Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
David Wilkerson
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The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.
Edward Thomas
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To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before
Rollo May
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There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
Barbara de Angelis
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When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
Catherine Ponder
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Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking.
Amy Sedaris
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
Abraham Lincoln
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They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.
Oscar Wilde
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Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
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When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
George Eliot
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People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman
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I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.
Louis Armstrong
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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
Elizabeth Bowen
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
Mae West
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The best way to behave is to misbehave.
Mae West
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Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
Henny Youngman
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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
Dale Carnegie
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
Jack Nicholson
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle
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A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
Chanakya
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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw
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Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.
Mae West
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Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
Mary Tyler Moore
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My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.
Kurt Cobain
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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
Leo Rosten
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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.
Jay Leno
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The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.
Ho Chi Minh
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I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Pietro Aretino
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
B. R. Ambedkar
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Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Laurence J. Peter
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Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
Barbara de Angelis
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
Iris Murdoch
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It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.
Anthony Storr
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A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Washington Irving
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
Halle Berry
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It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
Sydney J. Harris
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A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
Rupert Brooke
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Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
Woody Allen
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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
Theodore Roethke
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I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands.
Dudley Moore
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Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.
John Bradshaw
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Babies are such a nice way to start people.
Don Herold
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Mr. Right is coming, but he's in Africa and he's walking.
Oprah Winfrey
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James Thurber
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.
Wilson Mizner
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The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.
Emil Ludwig
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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
Ben Stein
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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.
David Frost
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You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.
Mae West
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
Jack Benny
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne
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I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
Luigi Pirandello
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And my parents finally realize I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.
Woody Allen
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If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton
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To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
Helen Rowland
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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings
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Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.
Jim Rohn
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Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
Erma Bombeck
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In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.
Carol Gilligan
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A hard man is good to find.
Mae West
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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh
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The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers
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The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Harold Nicolson
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He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
George Herbert
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Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
Ogden Nash
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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Friedrich von Schiller
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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
Joan Baez
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp
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Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.
Christopher Alexander
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
Rachel Weisz
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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean Nathan
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
Mae West
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Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
Barbara de Angelis
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Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.
James Allen
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Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.
Marianne Faithfull
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All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
Magic Johnson
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You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.
Keith Sweat
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Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
Gilbert Parker
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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya
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You must look into people, as well as at them.
Lord Chesterfield
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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain
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Where there are friends there is wealth.
Plautus
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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
Barbara de Angelis
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A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.
Voltaire
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People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.
Werner Herzog
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You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.
Mae West
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I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.
Ani DiFranco
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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
Barbara de Angelis
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The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.
Eileen Caddy
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anais Nin
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A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
Benjamin Franklin
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Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
A. Philip Randolph
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Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Alexander Smith
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Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
John Ciardi
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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
Anita Brookner
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Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, collegial networks and fluid, open boundaries. Innovation arises from ongoing circles of exchange, where information is not just accumulated or stored, but created. Knowledge is generated anew from connections that weren't there before.
Margaret J. Wheatley
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Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.
Judith Viorst
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
George Eliot
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Well, it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
Gillian Anderson
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln
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More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Doug Larson
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Are we not like two volumes of one book?
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Peter De Vries
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Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
Helen Rowland
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
Quentin Crisp
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When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.
Bob Seger
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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
Anatole Broyard
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You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
Art Buchwald
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Erica Jong
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Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men
Theodor Reik
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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Helen Rowland
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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
Anatole France
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When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
Mae West
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
Barbara de Angelis
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Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
John W. Gardner
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I have a very bad relationship with mice.
Casey Affleck
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When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph Campbell
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In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.
James MacGregor Burns
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Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
Lawana Blackwell
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I believe people ought to mate for lifelike pigeons or Catholics.
Woody Allen
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Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
Candice Bergen
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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Anita Brookner
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My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
Rita Rudner
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
Paul Cezanne
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The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
Max Lerner
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In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.
Linda Ellerbee
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The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
Marianne Moore
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In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
Woody Allen
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Abraham Lincoln
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Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
Francoise Sagan
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We have a strange and wonderful relationship - he's strange and I'm wonderful.
Mike Ditka
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It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
Eknath Easwaran
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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
Louis K Anspacher
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That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
Emily Dickinson
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When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.
Samuel Hoffenstein
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A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
Erma Bombeck
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Friends are God's apology for relations.
Hugh Kingsmill
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After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.
Bertha von Suttner
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When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.
Rick Pitino
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Why can't we all just get along?
Rodney King
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The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
Thomas Love Peacock
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No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.
Keith Miller
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
Mae West
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Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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The three ingredients of a successful union between two ... humor, commitment & undying love.
Bill Cosby
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There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.
Frank Murphy
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If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' This method works every time.
Henry C. Link
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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
George Bernard Shaw
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Human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.
Ethel Percy Andrus
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Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.
Dinah Maria Mulock
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A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
Mae West
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A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
John Tillotson
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Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert Einstein
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The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
Maggie Kuhn
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A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.
Alexander Haig
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
Harold S. Geneen
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Oscar Wilde
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China and the U.S. have a very symbiotic relationship which will not decline any time soon. There are more shared interests as compared to shared differences and for this reason relations will continue to be good.
Mark Mobius
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If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.
Montel Williams
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
Charles de Gaulle
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People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.
Irwin Federman
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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
Mae West
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You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
Benjamin Franklin
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Familiarity breeds contempt.
Aesop
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Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.
Joseph Campbell
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The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.
Dean Acheson
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I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Friends are the sunshine of life.
John Hay
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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole France
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Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
Barbara de Angelis
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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
Don Marquis
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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde
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Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
Oscar Wilde
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Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP.
Julie Burchill
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Men are easy to get but hard to keep.
Mae West
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There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
Albert Guinon
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People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.
Oscar Wilde
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It takes two to get one in trouble.
Mae West
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Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.
Harry Chapin
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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
Aristotle
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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau
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True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Edna Buchanan
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The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
Dr. Robert Anthony
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A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
Henry Louis Mencken
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Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
Albert Einstein
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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
Benjamin Franklin
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When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
Woody Allen
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Some women pick men to marry—and others pick them to pieces.
Mae West
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Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
Woody Allen
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Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
Albert Einstein
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Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.
Woody Allen
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You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
Irish Proverb
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln
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The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.
Barbara de Angelis
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A relationship is like a rose,
How long it lasts, no one knows;
Love can erase an awful past,
Love can be yours, you'll see at last;
To feel that love, it makes you sigh,
To have it leave, you'd rather die;
You hope you've found that special rose,
'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
Rob Cella
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I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.
Erica Jong
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He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.
Pierre Charron
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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
Oscar Wilde
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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
Oscar Wilde
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Oscar Wilde
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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
Oscar Wilde
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But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.
Oscar Wilde
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My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
Amy Sedaris
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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
George Bernard Shaw
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It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
George Bernard Shaw
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I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
Anais Nin
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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
George Bernard Shaw
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The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams.
Elizabeth Fishel
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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can.
George Bernard Shaw
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We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Albert Camus
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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Woody Allen
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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
Maya Angelou
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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a
minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's
longer than any hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein
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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One should steal only where one cannot rob.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
Wayne Dyer
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The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.
Marcel Proust