Relationship Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Relationship
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
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A Great Relationship is the Dance of Two Great Lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard 
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
- Martin Buber
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals
relating to each other, but not tied in any relationship.
They will be loving to each other,
but not being possessive of each other.
They will be sharing with each other
all their joys and all their blessings,
but never even in their dreams thinking of dominating,
thinking of enslaving the other person.
- Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
The girl of my dreams is my mother's shadow,
cast upon the distant movie screen of my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A divorce is like an amputation:
you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest roadblock to a great relationship
is trying to force a partner to change through bribes or threats.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No partner in a love relationship...
should feel that he has to give up
an essential part of himself to make it viable.
- May Sarton
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
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.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
From wine what sudden friendship springs.
- John Gay
Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Anonymous
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles
I want a girl just like good old mom,
who is different in every way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
- George Jean Nathan
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring,
close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
When we find someone whose weirdness
is compatible with ours,
we join up with them and fall into
mutually satisfying weirdness -
and call it love - true love.
- Robert Fulghum.
Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell
In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
- Mike Murdock
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you live to be a hundred,
I want to live to be a hundred minus one day,
so I never have to live without you.
- Winnie the Pooh
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France
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