Quotes About Relationships

Do not devise evil against your neighbor, for he trustfully dwells beside you.

lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;

Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.

Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,

then do this, my son, to free yourself, for you have fallen into your neighborís hands: Go, humble yourself, and press your plea with your neighbor.

to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

So is he who sleeps with another manís wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.

that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.

She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:

Do not rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.

Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.

Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the slacker to those who send him.

Whoever shows contempt for his neighbor lacks judgment, but a man of understanding remains silent.

A gossip reveals a secret, but a trustworthy person keeps a confidence.

He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.

Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Stay away from a foolish man; you will gain no knowledge from his speech.