cute quotes on relationships

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. ~Voltaire



We are asleep with compasses in our hands. ~W.S. Merwin



I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me. ~Mark Twain



When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him. ~Henry Wheeler Shaw, a.k.a. Josh Billings



We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



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If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. ~Nicholas de Chamfort



If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. ~Scott Adams



In the nineteenth century men lost their fear of God and acquired a fear of microbes. ~Author Unknown



It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines. ~Virginia Wade



You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun. ~Antonio Porchia



If you are still talking about what you did yesterday, you haven't done much today. ~Author Unknown



There are several ways in which to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory. ~Robert Benchley



We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women.... When we arise in the morning, we go into the bathroom where we reach for a sponge provided for us by a Pacific Islander. We reach for soap that is created for us by a Frenchman. The towel is provided by a Turk. Then at the table we drink coffee which is provided for us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African. Before we leave for our jobs, we are beholden to more than half the world. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



Retirement has been a discovery of beauty for me. I never had the time before to notice the beauty of my grandkids, my wife, the tree outside my very own front door. And, the beauty of time itself. ~Hartman Jule



The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens. ~Author Unknown



The American is a gentle guy; but don't pressure him; if you do he turns toad and squirts poison. ~Martin H. Fischer



Diamonds are a girl's best friend and a man's worst enemy. ~Author Unknown



If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today. ~Author Unknown



People ask why I skip and I give the incomparable reason of "why not?" ~Author unknown, as posted on iskip.com