Quotes about Relationships

It seems that some women love to be exploited. when they are not exploited, they exploit the man.

In our relationships with others we must work for their collective good, while treating them justly and fairly as individuals.

There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship.

From Alexander the Platonist, not to say to anyone often or without necessity, nor write in a letter, I am too busy, nor in this fashion constantly plead urgent affairs as an excuse for evading the obligations entailed upon us by our relations towards those around us.

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

As for you, my young friends, I urge you to strive for virtue, for without it friendship cannot exist. And friendship, aside from virtue, is the greatest thing we can find in life.

This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.

Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.

We have begun to slam doors, and to throw things. I throw my purse, an ashtray, a package of chocolate chips, which breaks on impact. We are picking up chocolate chips for days. Jon throws a glass of milk, the milk, not the glass: he knows his own strength, as I do not. He throws a box of Cheerios, unopened. The things I throw miss, although they are worse things. The things he throws hit, but are harmless. I begin to see how the line is crossed, between histrionics and murder.

She said love was useless, because it led you into dumb exchanges in which you gave too much away, and then you got bitter and mean.