Relationship Quotes

"Love is a friendship set to music."

Joseph Campbell

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

William James

"Happiness only real when shared."

Christopher McCandless

"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking."

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself."

André Breton

"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."

G. K. Chesterton

"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision... Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away."

Louis de Bernières

"Some people care too much. I think it's called love."

A. A. Milne

"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."

Jim Morrison

"Love is a serious mental disease."

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."

"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life – to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories."

George Eliot

"A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences."

Dave Meurer

"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."

"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."

Ambrose Bierce

"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."

Rita Rudner

"Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it."

Helen Rowland

"By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."

"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly."

Peter De Vries

"To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with."

Mark Twain

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

Ian Maclaren

"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary."

Margaret Cousins

"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."

Jean Baptiste Massieu

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

William Arthur Ward