What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

I was adored once too.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it’s absolutely true.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

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

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

Like associates with like.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

I can’t very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

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

It’s important to love in hip hop.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

If you wished to be loved, love.