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| Den som inte tycker om någon är olyckligare än den som ingen tycker om. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Du dånar fram på vägarna med dunder och med brak | Stefan Demert |
| Ett transatlantiskt förhållande kan aldrig vara något annat än ett transatlantiskt förhållande. | Ulf Lundell |
| Jag har haft otur med båda mina fruar. Den ena lämnade mig och den andra stannade kvar. | Patrick Murray |
| Jag är en del av alla jag mött. | Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) |
| Människorna är till för varandras skull. | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| Varför gifta mig och göra en man olycklig när jag kan förbli singel och göra tusentals män olyckliga? | Carrie P. Snow |
| The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism. | A. R. Orage |
| The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. | Alexander Haig (1924-) |
| I don't just want to be the girl boys get excited about, I have no desire for people to see me in a sexy way. I won't do nudity ever. | Alicia Silverstone (1976-) |
| The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. | Amelia Earhart (1898-1937) |
| You made your bed, now lie in it | African-American Proverb |
| Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way. | Antoine Rivarol |
| The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there | Betty Grable (1916-1973) |
| The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it. | Bill Clayton |
| Relationships are hard. It's like a full time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two week's notice. There should be severance pay, and before they leave you, they should have | Bob Ettinger |
| Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. | Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) |
| We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human place as simply 'inside myself'. Nor is any person, creed, ideology, or movement entirely 'outside myself'. | Carter Heyward |
| And the alcoholic bastard waved his finger at me, His voice was filled with evangelical glee, Sipping down his gin and tonics, While preaching about the evils of narcotics, And the evils of sex, and the wages of sin, While he mentally fondles his nex | Danny Elfman (1953-) |
| Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand-the one doing the important job-unnoticed. | David K Shipler |
| I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex | David Lodge (1935-) |
| Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves | E. Joseph Cossman |
| Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality. | Edward Albee (1928-) |
| There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who's committed to her own development | Eleanor Holmes Norton (1937-) |
| I hate a macho sort who doesn't cry. They have to be a bit sensitive, don't they? One guy even said to me at a pub, "Do you come here often?" Thats an awful line. | Emma Bunton (1976-) |
| No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by. | Franz Schubert (1797-1828) |
| No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck | Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) |
| We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. | Fydor Dostoevsky |
| Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you. | George Harrison (1943-2001) |
| Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly. | George MacDonald (1824-) |
| And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me. | George Villiers (1628-) |
| Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with | Gillian Anderson (1968-) |
| One of the greatest titles we can have is "old friend". We never appreciate how important old | Grant Fairley |
| The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy. | Harry A. Blackmun (1908-1999) |
| Helping others is like helping yourself. | Henry Flagler |
| The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a mo | Hugh Walpole, Sr. (1884-1941) |
| Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. | Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) |
| I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. | J. D. Salinger (1919-) |
| The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it | James Agate (1877-1947) |
| We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could. | James Cromwell (1942-) |
| I've always been very bonded to animals - more so than most people. (laughs) I don't think that they can defend themselves, so we have to help them. | Jennie Garth (1972-) |
| When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street. | Jessica Tandy (1909-1994) |
| When you're around people who look for the best in others, who get their thrills from bringing out the best in themselves - rather than people looking for the meanness in others - it brings out the best in you | Karen Trusdale |
| I'm not the one who was elected." Although she disagreed with her husband on a lot of issues," she emphasized, "I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view. | Laura Bush (1946-) |
| I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend [Billy Bob Thorton] got married, and I've never heard from him again. | Laura Dern (1967-) |
| Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship | Laura Schlessinger (1947-) |
| A woman with a woman's viewpoint is of more value when she forgets she's a woman and begins to act like a man | Leonor Kretzer Sullivan (1902-1988) |
| The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be good at taking orders | Linda Festa |
| The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told. | Louis Kronenberger (1904-1980) |
| I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. | Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) |
| We have provided for the survival of man against all enemies except his fellow man | Lyman Lloyd Bryson |
| We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. | Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) |
| If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr. | Martin Delany |
| I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her. | Matthew Perry (1969-) |
| Coexistence... what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving. | Mike Connolly |
| What is important to a relationship is a harmony of emotional roles and not too great a disparity in the general level of intelligence | Mira Komarovsky |
| This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT! | Mitchell Kapor |
| Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it. | Morton Hunt |
| It has always seemed to me that in dealing with foreign countries we do not give ourselves a chance of success unless we try to understand their mentality, which is not always the same as our own, and it really is astonishing to contemplate how the i | Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) |
| I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for my extravagance | Oscar II of Sweden |
| The advantage of being celibate is that when one sees a pretty girl one does not need to grieve over having an ugly one back home | Paul Léautaud (1872-1956) |
| Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others. | Peter Farquharson |
| The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster | Quentin Crisp (1908-1999) |
| I am having more trouble with myself than any other man I have ever met | Raymond Dale |
| If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own | Richard Cecil |
| Death ends a life, not a relationship. | Robert Benchley (1889-1945) |
| I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet. | Rodney Dangerfield (1921-2004) |
| [There is a] curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines. | Ronald Steel |
| The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul. | Rona Barrett (1936-) |
| There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do. | Sandy Koufax (1935-) |
| When a relationship dies do we ever really give up the ghost or are we forever haunted by the spirits of relationships past. | Sarah Jessica Parker (1965-) |
| When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression | Sheila Jeffrys |
| I like when a guy makes me feel like a woman and a little girl at the same time. | Tara Reid (1975-) |
| Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men | Theodore Reik |
| Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth | Theodore Reik |
| If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart.Then in living - I have made my mark. | Thomas L. Odem, Jr |
| In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality. | Tom C. Clark |
| If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us. | Tony Blair (1953-) |
| Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person. | Wilfred Peterson |
| When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. | William Arthur Ward |
| The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state | William Scranton |
| We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too. | Will Smith (1968-) |
| Our Union: It must be preserved | Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) |
| As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy. | Babe Ruth (1895-1948) |
| Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know. | Charles Lamb (1775-1834) |
| Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you. | Claude M. Bristol |
| The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president. | Dean Acheson (1893-1971) |
| Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes. | Donald Rumsfeld (1932-) |
| What people say behind your back is your standing in the community. | Edgard Watson Howe |
| When man to man shall be friend and brother. | Edwin Markham (1852-1940) |
| I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim? | Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) |
| Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves | Francis Schaeffer |
| The relationships we have with the world are largely determined by the relationships we have with ourselves | Greg Anderson (1964-) |
| A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) |
| I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are. | Joan Rivers (1933-) |
| We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs. | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up, they just taught me to be me. | Kate Winslet (1975-) |
| Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible | Margaret Mead (1901-1978) |
| Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. | Margaret Mead (1901-1978) |
| Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats | Marge Piercy (1936-) |
| I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me. | Martin Buber (1878-1965) |
| One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others | Molière (1622-1673) |
| I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single. | Penelope Cruz (1974-) |
| It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough. | Quentin Crisp (1908-1999) |
| I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. | Rodney Dangerfield (1921-2004) |
| Those who go along get along. | Sam Snead (1912-2002) |
| How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart. | William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
| It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. Like Gladstone speaking to Victoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons. It was superb. | William Manchester (1922-2004) |
| No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again. But you do. | Gillian Anderson (1968-) |
| There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love. | Gillian Anderson (1968-) |
| A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go. | Gillian Anderson (1968-) |
| No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry | Gillian Anderson (1968-) |
| Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with | Gillian Anderson (1968-) |
| A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart. | Leo F. Buscaglia |
| The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender. | Emil Ludwig (1881-1948) |
| If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart.Then in living - I have made my mark. | Thomas L. Odem, Jr |
| Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too. | Will Smith (1968-) |
| We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. | Fydor Dostoevsky |
| Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. | William James (1842-1910) |
| I love you smile at me, I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near....I believe this is heaven to no one else but me. | Sarah McLachlan (1968-) |
| Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| Love lasts when the relationship comes first. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Relationships-of all kinds-are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Nobody can hurt me without my permission. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it. | Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965) |
| It is better to be loved than feared | African Proverb |
| What is true for one relationship, for one painting, is not true for another... each possesses its own strange inevitability that resists us and we can never finally know what it is we are doing until the work is finished... It is as if the picture paints itself through us, the story tells itself through us, has a larger existence of which we know nothing. | Alex Miller |
| The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. | Alexander Haig (1924-) |
| A medal is a small metal disk given as a reward for virtues, attainments or services more or less authentic. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. | Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) |
| Not everyone thinks the way you think, knows the things you know, believesthe things you believe, nor acts the way you would act. Remember this and you will go a long way in getting along with people. | Arthur Forman |
| Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family. | Barbara Bush (1925-) |
| Never contradict anybody. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Love, children, and work are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:120]. | Bible |
| As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another | Bible |
| If a man loudly blesses his neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse | Bible |
| Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person. | Brian Tracy |
| I don't want people kissing my butt. If I had a bad show and I know it, don't tell me I had a good show. I hate that. I guess because I'm 17, people think I don't see stuff like that. | Britney Spears (1981-) |
| The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss. | Casey Stengel (1891-1975) |
| Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them. | Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) |
| I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings. | Dan Quayle (1947-1947) |
| Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine. | David Ogilvy (1911-1999) |
| The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account. | David Ogilvy (1911-1999) |
| Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual. | Dennis Prager (1948-) |
| When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. | Edgar Watson Howe (1853-1937) |
| When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion | Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) |
| When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Men and women, women and men, It will never work. | Erica Jong (1942-) |
| The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| The reason why lovers are never weary of one another is this: they are always talking of themselves | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by. | Franz Schubert (1797-1828) |
| Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. | Fydor Dostoevsky |
| It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| People are never against you! They are against what you stand for. | Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt |
| People never hate you! They just don’t like themselves in your presence. | Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt |
| I have never met you but if I do, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and a supporter below | Harry S Truman (1884-1972) |
| Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. | Henry Fielding (1707-1754) |
| All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) |
| Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. | James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) |
| Don't stay long when the husband is not at home | Japanese Proverb |
| If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else. | Jennifer Lopez (1970-) |
| Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills, One man gathers what another man spills | Jerry Garcia (1942-1995) |
| Some people claim that there's a woman to blame, but I know, it's my own damn fault. | Jimmy Buffet (1946-) |
| When you're around people who look for the best in others, who get their thrills from bringing out the best in themselves - rather than people looking for the meanness in others - it brings out the best in you | Karen Trusdale |
| Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity. | Laurence Olivier, Sir (1907-1989) |
| This is my first long-term relationship... and I can't wait to see her at the end of the day. She's the cutest girl in the world. | Leonardo DiCaprio (1974-) |
| I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. | Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) |
| You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles. | Mae West (1892-1980) |
| Dogs never bite me. Just humans. | Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) |
| Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive. | Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) |
| A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for my extravagance | Oscar II of Sweden |
| Lewis Morris: "It is a conspiracy of silence against me - a conspiracy of silence! What should I do?" Oscar Wilde: "Join it | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them. | Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) |
| He begs at them that borrowed at him | Proverb |
| Three know it, all know it | Proverb |
| For it is not simply because of mere sluggishness alone that human relationships repeat themselves from case to case in such unspeakable monotonous and unrefreshed ways; there is also a certain shyness for unforseeable experiences generally because one doesn't feel up for them. But only for the one that is on the lookout for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatic, will the relationship to another become something alive and to speak to the whole potential of one's existence. | Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) |
| Every man I meet is in some way my superior. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out. | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves: how often we alter our minds, we do not always remark; because the change is sometimes made imperceptibly and | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| However degraded or wretched a fellow mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility | Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) |
| The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, "What are you going through?" | Simone Weil (1909-1943) |
| It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important. | Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) |
| I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator. | Stephen Wright (1955-) |
| I like when a guy makes me feel like a woman and a little girl at the same time. | Tara Reid (1975-) |
| I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| I have supposed the black man, in his present state, might not be in body and mind equal to the white man; but it would be hazardous to affirm that, equally cultivated for a few generations, he would not become so | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| The animosities of soverigns are temporary, and may be allayed; but those which seize the whole body of people, and of a people too, dictate their own measures, produce calamities of long duration | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Be polite to all, but intimate with few. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| The word 'Intellectual' suggests straight away - A man who's untrue to his wife | W. H. Auden (1907-1973) |
| Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. | W. H. Auden (1907-1973) |
| I have no use for people who throw there weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous. | Walt Disney (1901-1966) |
| In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people | Wayne Dyer (1940-1940) |
| The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state | William Scranton |
| 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |