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Quotations
 | Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 17 likes |
 | Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. — Thucydides, 460-394 BC, Ancient Greek historian 13 likes |
 | Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014, Colombian writer 9 likes |
| If you love something, let it go. If it is yours, it will come back. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014, Colombian writer 8 likes |
 | Invisible threads are the strongest ties. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 7 likes |
 | Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time. — Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Argentine writer 7 likes |
 | I will help you to approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 6 likes |
 | I was bored. That's how it began. She bored me, that's how it ended. — Alexandre Dumas, fils, 1824-1895, French writer 6 likes |
 | I flee who chases me and chase who flees me. — Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet 5 likes |
| I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 5 likes |
 | Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 5 likes |
 | We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 5 likes |
 | We are interested in others, when they are interested in us. — Publilius Syrus, 1st cent. AD, Roman author of maxims 5 likes |
 | You are only an extra in everyone else's play. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 4 likes |
 | To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. — Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer 4 likes |
| When you made me into another, I left you with me. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 4 likes |
| If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 4 likes |
 | Breaking up is like knocking over a Coke machine. You can’t do it in one push. You gotta rock it back and forth a few times, and then it goes over. — Jerry Seinfeld, 1954-, American comedian 4 likes |
 | For there is but one problem: the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 4 likes |
 | There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 3 likes |
 | You will understand that if you make things easier for others you will earn their liking. — Aristotle Onassis, 1900-1975, Greek tycoon 3 likes |
 | A fiancé is neither this nor that: he’s left one shore, but not yet reached the other. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 3 likes |
 | To have twenty lovers in one year is easy. To have one lover for twenty years is difficult. — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 3 likes |
 | Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 3 likes |
 | Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 3 likes |
 | How we need another soul to cling to. — Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, American poet & writer 2 likes |
 | Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me! — Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Irish writer, Nobel 1969 2 likes |
 | The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 2 likes |
 | Everyone in life is gonna hurt you, you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 2 likes |
 | Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and at times—and this is the worst of all—before we have new ones. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 2 likes |
 | One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. — E. M. Forster, 1879-1970, British writer 2 likes |
 | Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 2 likes |
 | I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellect. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 2 likes |
 | When the wrong people leave your life, the right things start to happen. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes |
| Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other. — Thucydides, 460-394 BC, Ancient Greek historian 2 likes |
 | Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called “right” person always comes to soon or too late. — Lawrence Durrell, 1912-1990, British writer 2 likes |
 | My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist 1 likes |
 | I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work. |
| The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. |
 | Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. |
 | One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. |
| We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. |
 | In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. |
| We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us. |
 | The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor. |
 | The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points. |
 | We give each other memories when we leave each other. |
 | You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart. |
| Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. |
 | Long live who abandons me! He returns me to myself. |
 | Maybe marriages are best in middle age. When all the nonsense falls away and you realize you have to love one another because you ’re going to die anyway. |
 | “It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!” she said. |
| It's easier to be good for everyone than for someone. |
| Love is physics, marriage is chemistry. |
 | Learn to live with self and you will learn to live with others. |
 | The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them. — José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998] (Blindness, 1995) |
 | People aren't interested in you. They're interested in themselves. |
 | Between human beings there are only two alternatives, either brotherhood or crime. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 |
 | The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. |
Latin Quotes
| So I can't live either without you or with you. Sic ego nec sine te nec tecum vivere possum. — Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet 47 likes |
Quotes in Verse
| I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here. — Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, American poet & writer 4 likes |
 | We wished our two souls might return like gulls to the rock. In the end, the water was too cold for us. |
Funny Quotes
 | I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that. — Mitch Hedberg, 1968-2005, American comedian 4 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Men exist for the sake of one another. Guide them then or bear with them. Οι άνθρωποι γεγόνασιν αλλήλων ένεκα. Ή δίδασκε ούν ή φέρε. — Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor ‐ Meditations VIII, 59 6 likes |
 | The duties count in addition to relations. Τα καθήκοντα ταις σχέσεσι προσμετρείται. — Epictetus, 50-120 AD, Ancient Greek Stoic philosopher (for the things a philosopher should not neglect) 3 likes |
Proverbs
 | Where people love you, go rarely; where you are hated, go not at all. 4 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. — from the film A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 6 likes |
