Relations Quotes

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them that's the essence of inhumanity.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Each of us keeps battened down inside himself a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially but full-scale. It's the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality.

Human beings are very unpredictable in relations and there are no written agreements... Unlike in business transactions...

There is non who is unfriendly, even the person we may regard as unfriendly has a friend. Our mind is the only limitation and barrier to people

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not be endured with patient resignation.

The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.

...when women survive an awful marriage or love affair, and all that shit, they generally avoid another relationship for quite some time. With men, however, it is just the opposite; the moment they finish a catastrophe they start looking for another one. Men are incapable of being alone.

When you live next to the cemetery you cannot weep for everyone.

Let's accept it that we remember people only when we have some work and only our Mother‬ remembers us and calls us for no reason, just to know how we are doing!

The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance ' and I have found his words true.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Jimmy Murray, you are an ass,' said Aunt Ruth, angrily.'Well, we're cousins,' agreed Cousin Jimmy pleasantly.

Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Acquaintance n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to.

The only relationship where you’ll never have your heart broken is the relationship between you and Allah.

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.

I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be you do.