Quotes about Relationships

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.

I don't know how many marriage breakups are caused by these movie-and television-addicted women expecting some bouquets and kissing and hugging and being swept out like Cinderella for dinner and dancing -- then getting mad when a poor, scraggly husband comes in tired and sweaty from working like a dog all day, looking for some food.

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.