Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

relationship

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. 32 thoughts from Martin Luther

The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more. 3 wisdom & wit from Cyril Cusack

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship. 9 quotes from Rainer Maria Rilke

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told. 3 thoughts from Louis Kronenberger

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom. 5 quotes from Gianni Versace

God gives us relatives thank God, we can choose our friends. 3 wisdom & wit from Addison Mizner

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. 7 sayings from Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain. 2 views from Wendell Willkie

The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex. 9 other sayings from Alfred Adler

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best. 14 other wisdom & wit from Jessica Savitch

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. 18 sayings from Joseph Campbell

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it. 3 quotes from Georg Simmel

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president. 4 sayings from Dean Acheson

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas. 2 wisdom & wit from Norman McLaren

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends. 6 more wisdom & wit from B. R. Ambedkar

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship. 20 more quotes from Herbert Spencer

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. 2 quotes from Pietro Aretino

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable. 3 other quotes from May Sarton

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. 24 more thoughts from James A. Baldwin

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women. 18 more quotes from Pearl S. Buck

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men. 53 views from Marilyn Monroe

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author. 6 other views from Jerzy Kosinski

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading. 5 more views from Igor Stravinsky

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. 3 quotes from Luigi Pirandello

Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship. 27 quotes from Dave Barry

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. 2 wisdom & wit from Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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. 10 other quotes from Hermann Hesse

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. 9 other wisdom & wit from Iris Murdoch

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships. 18 more sayings from Andy Warhol

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. 3 quotes from James Baldwin

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. 60 wisdom & wit from H. L. Mencken

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul. 100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy. 29 more sayings from Groucho Marx

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. 11 more quotes from Graham Greene

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know. 2 quotes from Robert Fitzgerald