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Quotes About Relationship

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?
~ Budd Schulberg
They looked at each other until they weren't acquaintances any longer.
~ Budd Schulberg
The fact is that happily married men don't sleep around.
~ burchill julie ii
Hast thou given the first kiss to a maiden? Write her speedily on the morrow before she giveth thee fierce words; assure her and comfort her woe; let her remorse be abated, give unto her an excuse for her conduct.
~ burgess gelett ii
Erskine was on the other side; and he then supported it by saying, that though the gentleman had originally harpooned the lady, and had once had her fast, and only by reason of the great stress of her plunging viciousness, had at last abandoned her; yet abandon her he did, so that she became a loose-fish; and therefore when a subsequent gentleman re-harpooned her, the lady then became that subsequent gentleman's property, along with whatever
~ Herman Melville
a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man;
~ Herman Melville
wife?—rather a widow with her husband alive! Aye, I widowed that poor girl when I married her
~ Herman Melville
your heart beat in my ribs and mine in yours, and both in God's
~ Herman Melville
he will have no one near him but Nature herself; and her he takes to wife in the wilderness of waters, and the best of wives she is, though she keeps so many moody secrets.
~ Herman Melville
to you, I have never known anything like it. But I have brains enough to know that a bed takes up a very small space in a house, and that you don't spend a marriage sleeping with a person but waking with her. It's the waking part with you that I will no longer endure, come hell or high water. I will not be driven on and on to that looming goal, a love nest in the suburbs. I WANT NO PART OF IT OR OF YOU, do you understand? If I had
~ Herman Wouk
The girl you marry, and the woman you must make a life with, are two different people.
~ Herman Wouk
Marjorie, my sweet, we've fallen in love with each other, that's all. You love me. I love you. Don't lose any sleep over it." Electric stings ran through her arms and legs. She put
~ Herman Wouk
Rose, you're good, you're like a sister." The mother expelled a long sigh, puffing out her cheeks. She looked from the girl to the old man. "I keep trying to fix everything. Why? It's God's world." She kissed them both. "Take care of yourselves. And…
~ Herman Wouk
on having dinner with us.
~ Herman Wouk
Now it happened that this Candaules was in love with his own wife; and not only so, but thought her the fairest woman in the whole world. This fancy had strange consequences.
~ Herodotus
He told me yesterday that weddings should be individual celebrations of a couple's relationship, ideally with just the bride and groom and a humanist minister. Everything else is merely social pressure to eat tiny cakes.
~ Hester Browne
Timeo hominem unius mulieris. (''A man who keeps to one woman is formidable.'')
~ Hilaire Belloc
Honesty, trust, and friendship in a relationship are crucial, and no relationship can survive without them.
~ Hill Harper
Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.
~ Homer
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
~ Homer
No finer, greater gift in the world than that...when man and woman possess their home, two minds, two hearts that work as one.
~ Homer
for there is nothing better in this world than that man and wife should be of one mind in a house. It discomfits their enemies, makes the hearts of their friends glad, and they themselves know more about it than any one.
~ Homer
let's go to bed together, mount my bed and mix in the magic work of love — we'll breed deep trust between us.
~ Homer
For nothing is better than this more steadfast than when two people, a man and his wife, keep a harmonious household; a thing that brings much distress to the people who hate them and pleasure to their will-wishers, and for them the best reputation.
~ Homer