Relationships and Family

The first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses.

On this tenth day of June 1940 the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

Over this damp grave I speak the words of my love:

A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that is true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.

Je l’ai trop aimé pour ne le point haïr!

Je le vis, je rougis, je pâlis à sa vue .

[ On being told at a party that people were ducking for apples :] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life.

The kids, like all kids, loved the dog [Checkers], and I just want to say this, right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we are going to keep it.

The kids, like all kids, loved the dog [Checkers], and I just want to say this, right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we are going to keep it.

You are like nobody else since I love you.

On ne Badine pas avec l’Amour .

On ne Badine pas avec l’Amour .

124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom.

I would indeed that love were longer-lived,

Love is the most fun you can have without laughing.

Love is a joint experience between two persons—but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved. There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries. Often the beloved is only a stimulus for all the stored-up love which has lain quiet within the lover for a long time hitherto.

The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.

He knew only that the child was his warrant.

The tragedy of love is indifference.

[ Responding to a woman contestant who, explaining why she had twenty-two children, said “because I love children, and I think that’s our purpose here on earth, and I love my husband” :] I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.

Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.

What I want is to draw inspiration only from the truth. . . . My qualifications for this important role include a large head, an enormous nose, disappointment in love, and expectations of ill health.

What I want is to draw inspiration only from the truth. . . . My qualifications for this important role include a large head, an enormous nose, disappointment in love, and expectations of ill health.

Marcela loved me during fifteen months and three thousand dollars; nothing more.