Quotes about Relationships

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Love has been defined, analyzed, explained and excused. It has been the cause of wars, feuds, heroism, martyrdom, inordinate passion, and beautiful friendships. It pulls two people of opposite temperaments together into a married state and permits them to live happily. It makes friends understand each other without the necessity of words.

Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.

You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

True love is something seen and known by others.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence, is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage.