Quotes About Relationships

Lovers meander in prose and rhyme, trying to say- for the thousandth time- what's easier done than said.

More than generating mere accounting, these state-building practices sought eventually to replace traditional local relationships of power with new loyalties that tied individuals to the central state. To do so, however, meant breaking the traditional political dominance exercised by regional powerbrokers, the local nobility.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.

Boy children are primed to expect everything from their wives in the marriage, and not give too much if anything at all.

Families are also about offering endless possibilities for pain.

I'm one of those people who has always been a bridesmaid.

I met two or three men who were very kind to me. There was a magistrate who couldn't stand priests, and a priest who didn't have a good word to say for magistrates; and there was a landlord who let furnished rooms by the hour and spoke highly of both priests and magistrates, because both were his best clients.

There is no such thing as a lover's 0ath.

There is no such thing as a lover's oath.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Los Buendía no eran capaces de amar, y ahí está el secreto de su soledad, de su frustración. La soledad, para mí, es lo contrario de la solidaridad

With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

Uh-oh! BEWARE!!!" said Fensler. "Never, ever marry the best sex of your life. It only happens with someone who is very dangerous for you. It's passionate, exciting, but it generally indicates that you are pushing each other's dysfunctional buttons. Be very wary of men you are crazily sexually attracted to-they're the dangerous ones for you. That's what all analysis says in one form or another.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

L'amicizia è animale da compagnia, non da gregge.

In fact Cleopatra was indebted to Fulvia for teaching Antony to obey a wife's authority, for by the time he met her he had already been quite broken in and schooled to accept the way of women.

For they either believe their colleagues to be their equals and so they fight against them; or they believe them to be superior and so they envy them; or they believe them inferior and so they despise them. We must, however, pay court to the colleague who is superior, make the inferior better, and honor the equal.

Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Children's emotional well-being and security are more affected by the relationship between the parents than by the direct relationship between the parent and child.

You can't replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that's not to say you shouldn't get more dogs and people in your life.

We can affect people around us so much with our moods. A depressed person can make a room gloomy and a sweet nature can cause the lion to lie down with the lamb.