Quotes by Subject: Love, romance & marriage
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. | |||
Experience shows us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. | |||
I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right. | |||
So many persons who think divorce a panacea for every ill find out, when they try it, that remedy is worse than the disease. | |||
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. | |||
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left. | |||
Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Lisa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. | |||
Marriage is the only war where you sleep with the enemy. | |||
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with. | |||
Sex without love is an empty gesture. But as empty gestures go, it is one of the best | |||
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. | |||
Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash. | |||
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. | |||
A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence. | |||
In real love you want the other persons good. In romantic love you want the other person. | |||
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. | |||
Two can live as cheaply as one - if they both have good jobs. | |||
Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too. | |||
Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another. | |||
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. | |||
Beauty: That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. | |||
Helpmate: A wife, or bitter half. | |||
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. | |||
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. | |||
Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three-meals-a-day and remembering to take out the trash. | |||
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. | |||
The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it. | |||
He that fall sin love with himself will have no rivals. | |||
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. | |||
It is never too late to be what you might have been. | |||
Every exit is an entry somewhere else. | |||
Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash. | |||
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment; pain of love lasts a lifetime. | |||
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. | |||
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to. | |||
We're here to ruin ourselves, and break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. (Moonstruck, 1987) | |||
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. | * | ||
As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't. | |||
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed. | |||
My toughest fight was with my first wife. | |||
The course of true love never did run smooth. (A Midsummer Night's Dream) | |||
Come, sit by my side, and let the world slip, We shall ne'er be younger. (The Taming of the Shrew) | |||
There is no love sincerer than the love of food. | |||
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. | |||
Men look at women the way men look at cars. Everyone looks at Ferraris. Now and then we like a pickup truck, and we all buy station wagons. | |||
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity... Women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What they like is to be a man's last romance. | |||
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. | |||
All mankind loves a lover. | |||
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. | |||
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. | |||
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. | |||
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. | |||
Loyalty isn't standing by someone when he's right. That's good judgement. Loyalty is standing by someone when he's wrong. | |||
To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty, still (Sonnet 104) | * | ||
Romance is built on illusion, and when we love someone, we love the illusion they have created for us. | |||
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. | |||
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. | |||
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. | * | ||
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. | |||
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species. | |||
What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds. | * | ||
Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk. | * | ||
Wives don't want to hear what husbands think. Wives want to hear what they themselves think, but in a deeper voice. | |||
Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house. | |||
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient. | |||
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient. | |||
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. | |||
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that! | * | ||
To keep the fire burning brightly, there's one easy rule: keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart -- about a finger's breadth -- for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule. | |||
Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled. | |||
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. | |||
Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself. | |||
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. | |||
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. | |||
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