I do not want people to be agreeable as it saves me that trouble of liking them.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy, it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other and seven days are more than enough for others.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

My being charming, Harriet, is not quite enough to induce me to marry, I must find other people charming - one other person at least.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

They do not love that do not show their love.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.