Quotes Tagged "companionship"

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

If you want to read about love and marriage you've got to buy two separate books.

When you are in love with someone you want to be near him all the time, except when you are out buying things and charging them to him.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

The first duty of love is to listen.

You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without.

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman!

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

Love: Two minds without a single thought.

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union.

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.