Quotes About Reflection

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe I see in you, a woman too perfect to be really true? Do I want you because you're wonderful, or are you wonderful because I want you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream, or are you really as beautiful as you seem?

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

I do not want a friend Who smiles when I smile Who weeps when I weep For my shadow in the pool Can do better than that.

I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends.

Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did.

Whoever keeps his mouth shut when he realizes that he is wrong is wise and he who holds the mouth even if he is right is married.

Marriage is the interview that never ends.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

Marriage is the best of all evils.

Before marriage a woman is pensive, after marriage, expensive

Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife

Marriage is the tomb of love

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

Marry in haste, and repent at leisure.

Husband and wife come to look alike at last

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.