Quotes About Relationships

If a man wants to dominate a woman, he will demand sex, and if a woman wants to dominate a man, she will refuse him sex.

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them.

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.

In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.

There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.

What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6º of marriage!

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.

A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.

If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?

Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.

Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.

A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.