Quotes About Relationships

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Where lovers frequently change the object of their affections one may be reasonably sure to find that they are inspired by a false kind of love.

All life is a preparation for love.

Love will thrive in any environment.

You are real only where you are given to love.

Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer.

it is not exact or relevant to say "I experience" or "I think." "It" experiences or is experienced, "it" thinks or is thought, is a juster phrase. Experience, a serial course of affairs with their own characteristic properties and relationships, occurs, happens, and is what it is. Among and within these occurrences, not outside of them nor underlying them, are those events which are denominated selves.

She later said, "Sex to Jack [Kennedy] meant no more than a cup of coffee." How did she know? Did she ever have coffee with him? I have no reason to think so, but in that picture, the president looks like he's about to start the percolator.

We don't fall in love with a woman because of her good character.

We've all met one or two women, I daresay, it would have been better if we hadn't met." "Now there," observed Cullingford Abbot, "we have a short history of mankind expressed with admirable terseness.

As soon as there was two there was pride

'Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be?O wilt thou therefore rise from me?Why should we rise, because 'tis light?Did we lie down, because 'twas night?Love which in spite of darkness brought us hitherShould in despite of light keep us together.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun,Why dost thou thus,Through windows, and through curtains call on us?Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?

If they be two, they are two soAs stiff twin compasses are two,Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no showTo move, but doth, if the other do.

Who ever loves, if he do not proposeThe right true end of love, he's one that goesTo sea for nothing but to make him sick.

Oh do not die, for I shall hateAll women so, when thou art gone.

No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

phrase no man is an island means that no one is truly self-sufficient, everyone must rely on the company and comfort of others in order to thrive.

But think that we Are but turn'd aside to sleep; They who one another keep Alive, ne'er parted be.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

It's as if there is no more room in their lives for parents.