Quotes About Intimacy

When love is strong, a man and a woman can make their bed on a sword's blade. When love grows weak, a bed of 60 cubits is not large enough.

The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.

The reason why lovers are never wary of one another is this - they are always talking of themselves.

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

By putting his hand around my neck, he slowly strangled himself.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was 1.

All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.

Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

A man that hath friends must show himself friendly; and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

A friend is never known till a man has need.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies ... and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.

Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.

He is more within us than we are ourselves.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.

It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.

Acquaintance, n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

I'm fairly in tune with what's private with my husband and with me.