My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.
Matthew McConaugheyMisfortune shows those who are not really friends.
AristotleThe beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George EliotIf you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.
Lou HoltzThe problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.
Adam SandlerLove does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James BaldwinThough lovers be lost, love shall not.
Dylan ThomasMarriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
H. L. MenckenI’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.
Lando NorrisI think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.
Taylor SwiftRemember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.
RihannaKnow your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.
Kanye WestLove is only one of many passions.
Samuel JohnsonI love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.
Alice WalkerAny artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.
Matthew McConaugheyWithout deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert EinsteinWithin one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.
Margaret AtwoodThe question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
James BaldwinReally, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.
Mark ZuckerbergI do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.
Dolly PartonEvery man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
Albert CamusLove is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.
Ariana GrandeWe do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
EpicurusListen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.
Kamala HarrisMen exist for the sake of one another.
Marcus AureliusLook deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert EinsteinI’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.
Jerry Seinfeld‚The Story of Us‘ is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, ‚Is this killing you? Because it’s killing me.‘ But I didn’t. Because I couldn’t. Because we both had these silent shields up.
Taylor SwiftWhen we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
Blaise PascalThe capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
H. L. MenckenI 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 WildeThe true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
Albert SchweitzerHouse guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.
Erma BombeckTaylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.
The WeekndBlessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George EliotYou don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.
Robert FrostOne of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘
Douglas AdamsLet the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Martin LutherConsult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaLove matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Friedrich NietzscheThe correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
Francis BaconI definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.
George BestIt’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Robert FrostThe one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar WildeYour friend is your needs answered.
Khalil GibranI think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.
Tom BradyI don’t like being alone.
Cristiano RonaldoFriendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
VoltaireChildren begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar WildeNever go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Ernest HemingwayOne friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry AdamsMy favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.
Taylor SwiftI make friends faster and easier than journalists.
Anthony BourdainSince it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
Niccolo MachiavelliLove is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Lao TzuLogically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.
Dalai LamaI should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
George EliotOf all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand RussellA friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
Erma Bombeck