Quotes About Relationships

Hetta, we are women. Being stupid about men is our job. If we weren't stupid, we wouldn't have anything to do with them.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.—Buddha

Thou canst not joke an Enemy into a Friend; but thou may'st a Friend into an Enemy.— Benjamin Franklin

Love is being happy making the loved ones smile.

We sit silently in our living room. He watches the mute television screen and I watch him. The planes and ridges of his face are more familiar to me than my own. I understand that he wishes even more than I do that he still loved me.

Wilma had twenty-one brothers and sisters. She was child number twenty.

Leah used me. She picked me because somehow she knew I would keep her secrets. Somehow she knew I would do whatever she wanted. She knew I wouldn't stop her. Somehow she knew… . She knew part of me would like it.

Grace's boyfriend's parties became more important than trying to find ourselves. Maybe it's because we became afraid of what we'd find.

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

And there's no sex, hardly any love stuff at all, in Middle Earth, which always made me think, yes, the world would be better off without it.

I'm not sure I ever want to get married. I'm neither messing around while waiting nor looking for some "real thing." What I want is much more complicated. I want somebody I can talk to about books, who would be my friend, and why couldn't we have sex as well if we wanted to? (And used contraception.) I'm not looking for romance. Lord Peter and Harriet would seem a pretty good model to me.

You don't want anything from them except for them to exist and you to see them sometimes and talk to them, and maybe for them to like you back.

What I want is much more complicated. I want somebody I can talk to about books, who would be my friend, and why couldn't we have sex as well if we wanted to? (And used contraception.)

Piero is only twenty years old, but is married already to a Roman aristocrat, an Orsini like his mother. People say he thought himself too good for Florence. When you think you are too good to marry your neighbors, you start expecting them to be your servants.

Maybe he [Plato] really couldn't imagine agape between men and women, and he thought agape between men wouldn't be affected by them going off to women at the festivals. Sokrates was married, and Aristotle, but never Plato.

It's nonsense for it to be illegal," Patty said briskly. "It may be immoral and unclean because it's outside marriage, but it shouldn't be illegal. That's nonsense.

Solo è possibile vivere vicino a un altro, e conoscere un'altra persona, senza pericolo di odio, se si ha amore. Qualsiasi amore già è un poco salute, un riposo nella pazzia.

sempre a essas do mel eu dei louvor de meu agradecimento. Renego não, o que me é de doces usos: graças a Deus toda a vida tive estima a toda meretriz, mulheres que são as mais nossas irmãs, a gente precisa melhor delas, dessas belas bondades.

O Mumbungo queria à sua mulher, a Mula-Marmela, e, contudo, incertamente, ela o amedrontava. Do temor que não se sabe. Talvez pressentisse que só ela seria capaz de destruí-lo, de cortar, com um ato de 'não', sua existência doidamente celerada. Talvez adivinhasse que em suas mãos, dela, estivesse já decretado e pronto o seu fim

Reconhecer que somos irmãos é sempre suspeito, quando esse reconhecer envolve, de nossa parte, a aceitação de condições duras e, da outra parte, não envolve nada além de palavras

You may think it odd that there were three men to look after one tiny station, but the people who ran the railway knew that if you left two men together in a lonely place they would quarrel, but if you left three men, two of them could always grumble to each other about the third, and then they would be quite happy.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men — bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

and you know the first thing Dylan did when they started talking about how much money he could make? He went over in a corner by himself, and started scribbling down a list of who his friends were, because if he was gonna be rich, he'd have to know.