Relationship Quotes

Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

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.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

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.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

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.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

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.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

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.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Life is relationships; the rest is just details.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

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.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

A man's kiss is his signature.

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

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.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

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?

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

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.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

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.

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.

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

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.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

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.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking.

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.

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

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.

People change and forget to tell each other.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.

I've been in more laps than a napkin.

The best way to behave is to misbehave.

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.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

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.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.

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.

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.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

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.

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

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.

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.

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

Babies are such a nice way to start people.

Mr. Right is coming, but he's in Africa and he's walking.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

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.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.

You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.

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.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

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.

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

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.

And my parents finally realize I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

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.

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

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.

A hard man is good to find.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

The best proof of love is trust.

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

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.

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

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.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

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.

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.

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.

You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.

A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.

I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

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.

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.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

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.

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.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

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.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

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.

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.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

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.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

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.

When love is not madness, it is not love.

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

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.

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

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.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

I believe people ought to mate for lifelike pigeons or Catholics.

My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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.

We have a strange and wonderful relationship - he's strange and I'm wonderful.

Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.

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.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

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.

After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

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.

Why can't we all just get along?

When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' This method works every time.

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.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

The three ingredients of a successful union between two ... humor, commitment & undying love.

Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime.

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

Human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

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.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

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.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

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.

People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.

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.

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

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.

Friends are the sunshine of life.

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.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP.

It takes two to get one in trouble.

Men are easy to get but hard to keep.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

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.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

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.

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

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

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.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

One should steal only where one cannot rob.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can.

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

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.

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.

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.

The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

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.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

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.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

Some women pick men to marry—and others pick them to pieces.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

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.

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.

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.

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.

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.