On Love & Friendship



All quotes and poems posted on this site are taken from various sources. I do not, in any way, claim them to be my own (that is, if they're not mine). By putting them up, I hope to share the inspiration, observation and humour that I personally enjoy when I read them. Where possible, the authors' names are cited. In cases where the authors' names are left out, it means that the authors are unknown. I would welcome and appreciate any mail to inform me of the origins of any of these verses. And if any of your verses are posted here, and you object to it, please mail me immediately. I do not wish to violate your copyright. However, if you'd like to contribute some of your own favourite verses to this site, feel free to mail me anytime.



Here are several catch phrases that reflect the modern perception of Romantic Love.
I'm not advocating such views here but I really feel they are so reflective of modern living.



For the man ...

  1. If a man has a girl who loves him and will do anything for him, he has the most important thing in life.
  2. If two people love each other, nothing else matters.
  3. To marry for any reason but love is immoral.
  4. Love prevents even adulterous sex from being really immoral.
  5. Anybody who can tell the reasons for his love is not in love.
  6. Love between a man and a woman which does not culminate eventually in sexual expression is unnatural, but the great thing is to tell true love from mere sexuality.
  7. A man who loses everything for a love, even an illicit love, is to be both pitied and envied; but a man who loses everything for sex should be locked up.
  8. True love is very rare and few are capable of it.
  9. The only really unthinkable catastrophe that could befall a man is to prove to be not man enough.
  10. Once war, moral ties, and temptation threatening the immortal soul were the tests of manhood; now the supreme test is the ability to satisfy a woman.


For the woman, on the other hand, ...

  1. It is immoral to neglect her appearance and not do everything in her power to make men have erotic desires whenever they look at her.
  2. If she does not have at least one man at any given time who adores her, her life is pointless.
  3. But she must remain chaste, individual, and must never quite surrender even in the sexual act.



The natural expectation of every boy and girl is that each will fall in love, once, in the bloom of youth, suddenly, intensely, and at first unhappily, desiring infinitely more than sexual fulfillment but desiring that as well; that each will fall in love with a person of the opposite sex, also young and beautiful, who is unattached and falls just as much in love in return; that they will marry and experience a bliss which cannot even be talked about; that their sexual pleasures will quietly cool, in six months to six years, but that they will then love each other for what they really are - a far more satisfying thing than their youthful passion,. The man, of course, will have his fling nor and then, but if the woman does she cheapens herself beyond repair. 

- From Platonic Love by Thomas Gould



Despite the faults that partners have,
Their marriage still can thrive;
When both will give their hearts to God
He’ll keep their love alive.

Love will endure when you keep it pure.

Humans were made to run on love, and they do not function well on anything else.

True love gives and forgives.

Duty may make us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

An adult may come to love another because of the other’s characteristics; but it is the other person,
and not the characteristics, that is loved. The love is not transferable to someone else with the same characteristics,
even to one who "scores" higher for these characteristics. And the love endures through changes
of the characteristics that gave rise to it. One loves the particular person one actually encountered. Why love is historical,
attaching to persons in this way and not to characteristics, is an interesting and puzzling question. 

- Robert Nozick (in Anarchy, State, and Utopia)

Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. 

- G. K. Chesterton

Whatever a man is before marriage, he will be more of after marriage. 

- Edwin Louis Cole

If you are not happy single, you will not be happy married. 

- Nancy Corbett Cole

Men feel threatened, women feel guilty.
Thus, women tend to give ultimatums,
while men make accusations. 

- Edwin Louis Cole

One of the hardest things for a man to do is to admit he is wrong.
One of the hardest things for a woman to do is to allow her man to fail. 

- Edwin Louis Cole

The old adage "behind every successful man is a woman" is often true.
However, that does not mean she ran his life to make him successful.
More realistically, it implies that she supported him in his failures. 

- Edwin Louis Cole

Wanting God to change your husband is a valid desire, but a woman must want to change herself
to the same extent she wants change in her husband. Women can help change a man's habits.
Only God can change a man's nature. When a woman tries to change a man's nature, she takes the place of God.
Roadblock and stumbling block : wives are capable of being both. 

- Edwin Louis Cole

Love (n):
A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

Spouse (n):
Someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single.

Before you met any handsome prince, you have to kiss a lot of toads.

Friendship

Friendship is a Priceless Gift
that cannot be bought or sold,
But its value is far greater
than a mountain made of gold -
For gold is cold and lifeless,
it can neither see nor hear,
And in the time of trouble
it is powerless to cheer -
It has no ears to listen,
no heart to understand,
It cannot bring you comfort
or reach out a helping hand -
So when you ask God for a Gift,
be thankful if He sends
Not diamonds, pearls or riches,
but the love of real true friends. 

- Helen Steiner Rice

True friends have hearts that beat as one.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.




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