What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

Since 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.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

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

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

Disagreement is something normal.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

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

My 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.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives‘ mouths.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

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

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

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

My friends are my estate.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

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.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

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.