Relationships
• Don’t tell a woman she’s pretty; tell her there’s no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you. -Jules Renard
• Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. -Margaret Fuller
• When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. -Joseph Campbell
• Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. -Buddha
• The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship. -Barbara De Angelis
• However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them. -Francesca Annis
• A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together. -James H. Boren
• A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. -Mignon McLaughlin
• Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. -Barnett R. Brickner
• Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. -Simone Signoret
• Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond. -Thomas Love Peacock
• Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married? -Barbara Streisand
• To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up. -Ogden Nash
• I’ve had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn’t. -Patrick Murray
• All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage. -Lord Byron
• Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. -Elie Wiesel
• A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. -Arnold H. Glasow
• Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. -Abraham Lincoln
• We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations–we’re doing everything we can to keep our marriage together. -Rodney Dangerfield
• Women are confusing. They hate it when you ask how old they are, then they turn around and bite your head off if you forget their birthday. -Scott E. Roeben
• Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. -Reinhold Niebuhr
• Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual and the obligation reciprocal. -Louis K. Anspacher
• Never trust a husband too far or a bachelor too near. -Helen Rowland
• Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring. -Charles Churchill
• There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. -Anatole Broyard
• Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. -Albert Einstein
• I think a relationship is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies. -Woody Allen
• That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked. -Bill Cosby
• If you’re in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times. -Montel Williams
• In terms of the formation of long-term relationships, it’s far better to get false negatives than false positives. -Eric Pepke
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