Quotes about Relationships

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress?

Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love — that's not so bad either.

Was I to have never parted from thy side? As good have grown there still a lifeless rib. Paradise Lost, Book IX, l. 1154

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible.

I'd long since learned that no difference in viewpoint should ever be allowed to cause the least break in love. Indeed, it cannot, if it's real love. ...But relationships can be kept intact without compromising one's own beliefs. And if we do not keep them intact, but give up and allow the chasm, we're breaking the second greatest commandment.

I was too old for my father to (be protective), too young to be flattered.

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Marriage has worked better for men than for women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

People before paper; stories before statistics.

Love is wanting what's best for the other person. Romance is wanting the other person.