Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

True friends stab you in the front.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Fear is real, but so is love.

Within 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.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

No one can say, ‚I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.‘ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

I always wanted to be loved.

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.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

I absolutely adore Christmas.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Marriage is the death of hope.

My wife and I love each other very much.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.