Quotes About Relationships

Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.

Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.

The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.

The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

Vrouwen bewonderen én verdenken iedere vrijgezelf die ouder is dan dertig.

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.

Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.

Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.

That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

El amor precede al conocimiento, y éste mata a aquél.

Cásate con la mujer que te quiera, aunque no la quieras tú. Es mejor casarte para que le conquisten a uno el amor que para conquistarlo.