Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

I know love is the answer.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.