Relationships and Family

In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship—only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship—only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses.

A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there’s less of you.

A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there’s less of you.

It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

The hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

A child’s nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another human being.

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.

Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance.

Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied.

My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning— nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons.

Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Parentage is a very important profession; but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.