Quotes About Relationships

Why is it that there are always these problems and misunderstandings between men and women? Surely it would have been better if God had made only one sort of person, and the children had come by some other means, with the rain perhaps.

Like metaphors and works of art, the people who matter to us are all, so far as we are concerned, inexhaustible. They always remain a step beyond the furthest point our knowledge of them has reached—though only if, and as long as, they still matter to us.

Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside,A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

She who ne'er answers till a husband cools,Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules;Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways,Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.

Make use of every friend— and every foe.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her; but mainly a woman hates a man for being her friend.

But whom to love? To trust and treasure? Who won't betray us in the end? And who'll be kind enough to measure Our words and deeds as we intend?

Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.

The less we love her when we woo her, The more we draw a woman in

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

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

As Anthony Thiselton puts it, "The opposite of love is not correction but indifference.

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

Because of all the kinds of love there are out there—romantic, passionate, parental, spousal, brotherly—the love that is touted as most unassailable, complicit, and colluding is the love between sisters.

It's amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that's hot. Where there's a lot of knives. You're trusting your well-being with someone you've never before met or known.

Hey." Levet gave a sharp flap of his wings. "It is supposed to be farts before tarts." "What the -" Santiago made a sound of disgust. "Oh, for god's sake, it's bros before hos.

A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses.