Relationships and Family

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.

in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Don't come crawlin' to a man for love--he likes to get a run for his money.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him.

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.

Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.

I see when men love women they give but a little of their lives, but women, when they love, give everything.

It is not enough to conquer; one must also know how to seduce.

Blood's not thicker than money.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity.

Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.