Relationships Sayings

220 sayings found from 220 authors

Whoever enters into marriage, enters a cloister full of struggles.

— Martin Luther Undated
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It is always better to be diligent, for he who toils with honor dies content, while he who is lazy sleeps with the diligent man's wife.

— Benjamin Franklin Unknown, likely 18th century
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I love treason but hate a traitor.

— Julius Caesar Not specified
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Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.

— Benito Mussolini 1932
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We view them like donkeys. They don't care. They accept it with love.

— David Ben-Gurion Undated, but likely 1950s-1960s.
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The bed was so big that I couldn't find my wife in it.

— Lech Walesa 1991
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The more I see of people, the more I love my dog.

— Frederick the Great Approx. 18th Century
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

— Socrates c. 399 BCE (approximate)
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...the gods too love a joke.

— Plato c. 360 BCE
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

— Friedrich Nietzsche 1883-1885
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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

— Karl Marx Undated, widely attributed
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

— Simone de Beauvoir Undated, but widely attributed.
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Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means.

— Georg Simmel Unknown
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If you have reasons to love someone, you don't love them.

— Slavoj Zizek 2000s-2010s (approximate)
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At our best. Now, I'm not romanticizing black people, because we've got gangsters like everybody else. [laughs] But oh, Lord, we got some great ones.

— Cornel West 2014
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Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb circa 2010
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I do wish thou wert a dog, that I might love thee something.

— William Shakespeare c. 1605-1608
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Hera, do not hope to know all my thoughts; they will be hard for you, although you are my wife.

— Homer c. 8th-7th century BC
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To be good, a double entendre should be at least good English when viewed on either side. Now we may lay by a piece of money — but we lie by a wife.

— Edgar Allan Poe 1840s (attributed in 1943 by Clarence Brigham)
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

— Sappho c. 630-570 BC (original composition)
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