What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

I’m a mama’s boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

In married life three is company and two none.

I was adored once too.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

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.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

We do not judge the people we love.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

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

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Morality is contraband in war.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

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

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Every 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.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.