Socrates

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you’re with an individual who isn’t moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain’t going to work.

I never talk about my wife: we’re both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.

If I was your wife Sir, I’d poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I’d let you!

I probably didn’t handle things as diplomatically as I should.

Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.

Partnerships must have loyalty and integrity at their core.

A friend is a second self.

I don’t understand how in my parents’ age, it was ’til death do us part, and in mine it’s ’til cheating do us part, ’til lying do us part, ’til chemistry do us part, ’til disagreements do us part, ’til boredom do us part, ’til cowardice do us part. I just want what my parents have, that part.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you’re dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That’s a normal marriage.

Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears.

If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It’s as if I’m racist towards white girls!

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.