Quotes about Relationships

In marriage, the certainty, 'She will never love me much,' is easier to bear than the fear, 'I shall love her no more.

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

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.

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.