Relationships 2
• I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. -Robert Brault
• When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -Edgar Watson Howe
• Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with. – Mark Twain
• It’s tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won’t drink from my glass. -Rodney Dangerfield
• Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others. -Sidonie Gruenberg
• Making the decision to have a child – it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body. -Elizabeth Stone
• Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.
• Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough. -Dinah Shore
• Don’t settle for the one you can live with, wait for the one you can’t live without. – Anon
• No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? -Lee Iacocca
• You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job. -Laurence J. Peter
• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. -C. S. Lewis
• A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. -Arnold H. Glasow
• There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. -Martin Luther
• The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be good at taking orders. -Linda Festa
• How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. -From the movie Annie
• Assumptions are the termites of relationships. -Henry Winkler
• There’s a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It’s called marriage. -Donald H. Mcgannon
• It is a woman’s business to get married as soon as possible, and a man’s to keep unmarried as long as he can. -George Bernard Shaw
• Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he’ll go to sleep before you finish saying it. -Helen Rowland
• I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married. -Lewis Grizzard
• The only time my wife and I had a simultaneous orgasm was when the judge signed the divorce papers. – Woody Allen
• Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal. -Louis K. Anspacher
• The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly. -Peter De Vries
• Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’. -Herbert Spencer
• It isn’t tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it’s separating himself from all the others. -Helen Rowland
• Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him. -Marilyn Monroe
• What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. -Mother Theresa
• My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass,” my dad would reply, “we’re raising boys.” -Harmon Killebrew
• Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. We make discoveries about ourselves. -Gail Lumet Buckley
• The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank accounts, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the “love account.” -Zig Ziglar
• Never explain yourself. Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe it. -Belgicia Howell
• I’m very loyal in relationships. Even when I go out with my mom I don’t look at other moms. -Garry Shandling
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