Learn Through Quotations

“The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or ever touched, they must be felt with the heart. We should do everything within reason to save a good relationship. But if we are constantly trying to save it, it's probably not a good relationship.”

“Now, my good man,this is no time for making enemies.”

“Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.”

“Mother-in-law: a woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers.”

“In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again.... We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.”

“It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.”

“Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”

“Love is what you've been through with somebody.”

“A woman should soften but not weaken a man.”

“In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.”

“This better to be alone than in bad company.”

“It gives me a headache to think about that stuff. I'm just a kid. I don't need that kind of trouble.”

“I figure that the degree of difficulty in combining two lives ranks somewhere between rerouting a hurricane and finding a parking place in downtown Manhattan.”

“The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.”

“The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.”

“Women may be able to fake organisms, but men can fake whole relationships.”

“It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.”

“If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.”

“Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness has been removed.”

“You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.”

“The first time you buy a house you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.”

“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”

“Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding”

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”