Relationships Quotes

"We cannot control who we fall in love with, but we can choose how we treat them."

- Beauty and the Beast

"I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word ‘diva’ and think of it as a negative. I see it as a positive. I want somebody who knows what they want out of life and isn’t afraid to show it."

- Nick Cannon

"As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same."

- Donald E. Westlake

"A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright."

- Lucille Ball

"It is useless to try to hold a person to anything he says while he’s madly in love, drunk, or running for office."

- Shirley MacLaine

"The man who says his wife can’t take a joke, forgets that she took him."

- Oscar Wilde

"The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they’re too old to do it."

- Shirley MacLaine

"Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours."

- Yogi Berra

"A true friend is someone that thinks you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."

- Bernard Meltzer

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one!"

- C.S. Lewis

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."

- Linda Grayson

"Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you’re in."

- Richard Jeni

"I would do anything for my friends, which I think is how everyone in the world feels. Which is why I finally understand war."

- Jeff Winger, Community

"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."

- William Somerset Maugham

"Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with."

- Robert Brault

"It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not."

- Mignon McLaughlin

"Be present. Be thoughtful. Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses. This is how to make a real and lasting difference in your relationships, new and old."

- Marc & Angel Chernoff

"Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people."

- Barbara Bush

"A relationship is like a rose. How long it lasts, no one knows."

- Rob Cella

"A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world."

- Leo Buscaglia

""Success is nothing if you don’t have the right people to share it with; you’re just going to end up lonely.""

- Selena Gomez

"True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway."

- Edna Buchanan

"When you’re in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, ‘Damn, that was fun.'"

- Groucho Marx

"There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."

- Sylvia Plath

"‘Best friend’ isn’t a person—it’s a tier."

- Mindy Kaling

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one!”"

- C.S. Lewis

"A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad."

- Arnold H. Glasgow

"It’s not what’s under the tree that matters, it’s who’s gathered around it."

"Surround yourself with people that lift you higher."

"True friendship is like a rose, we don’t realize its beauty until it fades."

- Anonymous