Quotes About Relationships

Myrtle says some men are like that—jealous even of their wives' women friends. Oh, Stephen, why will you try to take the joy out of everything so? Why don't you let me have a little fun in life without all this argument? I get sick to death of it.

The child seems quite a nice little thing." "But how long will she stay quite a nice little thing with a mother like that? Really, Mabel!" "And nice little thing or not," spoke up somebody from the other side of the hearth, "I'm sure I don't want my son meeting her at dances, and things, as he grows up, and run the risk of having him fall in love with a girl with such a mother!

You can't love a man till you've had a baby with him.

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it -- but there is.

At least I knew all about falling in love. It was the falling out that I couldn't manage.

For it is only in other people's gaze that we see ourselves, isn't it?

I… chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Offences are easily pardoned where there is love at the bottom.

Cat a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

Indeed, half the battle of living a playful life lies in committing yourself to authentic communication. The fun of engagement with others soon follows.

How we react to our friends as well as who we pick as a lover, our abilities and interests at work, in fact almost everything about our psychology as an adult is continually reflecting our childhood in our day-to-day, moment-by-moment experience.

A man visits a psychiatrist and tells him that his wife thinks she is a chicken. The psychiatrist asks why the man does not leave her, to which the man replies, 'I need the eggs.' That pretty much sums up all the marriages that I have ever known: each person needs the other's madness.

Maddiyata düÅŸkün olanlar duygusal olarak daha güvensiz, daha düzeysiz kiÅŸisel iliÅŸkilere sahip, daha içtenliksiz, özerklik duygusu daha eksik, kendine güveni daha düÅŸük kimselerdir. Çocuk iseler, kendilerini baÅŸar?lar?na baÄŸl? olarak seven, onlar? maddiyatç? yetiÅŸtiren ana-babalar? vard?r.

Why should he worry himself about this woman? And why should he worry about anything else as long as he had this woman?

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell them.

No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well -- parent, child, brother, sister, intimate.

The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons.

Every marriage was imperfect and the destroying agents, the imperfections, were there, unseen, from the start.

People on the left are always asking me how I get people not on the left to talk to me and I always think it's such an odd question, because the assumption is that there must be some magic trick involved. The trick is I don't lie about my intentions or my thinking, which I consider basic respect I'd pay to anybody in any context, and in return people tend to offer me the basic respect of talking to me like a human being.