Quotes About Relationships

In their bitter words and their even more bitter tears, I would sense both a deep love for the Church and a practically bottomless disillusionment with it.

His concern was not with programs to reach the multitudes, but with men whom the multitudes would follow.

You need to find a way to work together as parents. You have to find a way to love your kids more than you hate each other.

In divorce, children learn a painful lesson about love: Romantic love can end. But they also need to learn this: Parental love never ends.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one.

If you take the view that one of the chief objects in life is to remain in loving relationships with other people, straight-line power becomes useless.

The gluing together of a clutch of human beings into some semblance of a city has never been more than remotely possible. We are all sinners, and it's the people closest to us that see us at our worst. The family gets the lion's share of life's provocations, aggravations, and enervations. Nowhere is there so much fur quite so ready to be rubbed the wrong way.

The poor man may envy the rich their houses, their lands, and their cars; but given a good wife, he rarely envies them their table.

Well, fathers and sons… one way or the other, they always disappoint each other.

Cómo queréis que sea feliz con un hombre que no me entiende? ?¿Cómo esperáis que sea feliz con una mujer que no entiende que no pueda entenderla?

There's nothing like surrounding yourself with people who actually like you just the way you are–people who are not trying to improve you, change you, manipulate you, save you, etc. There is a line. On one side of the line are those who will give you the news–good, bad, and indifferent. They care about you and your success. On the other side of the line are those who do not actually care about you and have motives other than true support.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any.Join the United States and join the family—But not much in between unless a college.

Families break up when people take hints you don't intend and miss hints you do intend.

My apple trees will never get acrossAnd eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors."

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.