The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it. -- Murray Kempton

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate,
Love sells the proud heart’s citadel to fate.
-- Rupert Brooke

What women say they want, what they think they want and what they actually respond to are not necessarily the same thing. -- Ross Jeffries?

Let's not complicate our relationship by trying to communicate with each other.

Some don't prefer the pursuit of happiness to the happiness of pursuit.

There's one consolation about matrimony. When you look around you can always see somebody who did worse. -- Warren H. Goldsmith

I think a relationship is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies. Well, what we have on our hands here is a dead shark. -- Woody Allen

Changing husbands/wives is only changing troubles. -- Kathleen Norris

If I love you, what business is it of yours? -- Johann van Goethe

Many people feel that if you won't let them make you happy, they'll make you suffer.

Falling in love is a lot like dying. You never get to do it enough to become good at it.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. -- Clint Eastwood

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. -- Vicki Baum

Once the trust goes out of a relationship, it's no fun lying to 'em any more. -- Norm, Cheers

There is a vast difference between the savage and civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast. -- Helen Rowland

Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred.

Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well. -- Charles Bukowski

One expresses well the love he does not feel. -- J.A. Karr

It's a cold bowl of chili, when love don't work out.

It's not easy to juggle a full-time job, a pregnant wife, and a troubled child; but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. -- Maurice Chevalier

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Do not permit a woman to ask forgiveness, for that is only the first step. The second is justification of herself by accusation of you. -- DeGourmont

Do not permit a man to ask forgiveness, for that is only the first step. The second is justification of himself by accusation of you. -- not DeGourmont

There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.

The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, `What does woman want?' -- Sigmund Freud

Love is a flower, friendship a sheltering tree.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

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Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery(1900—1944), a French writer and aviator.



The heart has reasons that the reason can't understand
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), a French mathematician and philosopher.



Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein ( 1879 – 1955), a German-born theoretical physicist


Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
Jerome K. Jerome (1859 – 1927,) an English writer and humorist


In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
Igor Stravinsky ( 1882 – 1971), a Russian-born composer


Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882), an American educator and poet



Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)


Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde(1854 – 1900), an Irish playwright, poet and author.


At the touch of love and heart, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato (428/427 BC – 348/347 BC), a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues.


If music be the food of love, play on
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616), an English poet and playwright, the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist.
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Where there is love, there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948), a political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path
Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976),an English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays.


But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love for ever.
Robert Burns (1759 – 1796), a Scottish poet and a lyricist