cute quotes on relationships

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ~Jean Cocteau



Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. ~Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines, 1960



Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise. ~Kathleen Turner



A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life. ~Irish Saying



Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. ~Gertrude Stein



Good things, when short, are twice as good. ~Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom



Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes! ~Paul MacCready, Jr.



Fuck Martha Stewart. Martha's polishing the brass on the Titanic; it's all going down, man. ~Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher, novel by Chuck Palahniuk



Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. ~Mark Twain



There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. ~Alexis de Tocqeville, 1856



Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson



A hair in the head is worth two in the brush. ~Oliver Herford



There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises." Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. ~Orrin Hatch



When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting. ~Benjamin Franklin



Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. ~Alice Walker



We have a choice every day - to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Hunger makes a thief of any man. ~Pearl S. Buck, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, edited by Ronald D. Fuchs



Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. ~James M. Barrie