quotes about relationships ending

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. ~John Updike



The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Life is like a dog sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. ~Lewis Grizzard



Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. ~Edna Ferber



All know the way; few actually walk it. ~Bodhidharma



Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore



Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. ~Barnett R. Brickner



Congratulations: Babies Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees. ~Boris Marshalov



Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. ~Mason Cooley



Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown



My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it. ~Koos Brandt



When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect. ~Ted Turner



It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ~Colette



Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember. ~Author Unknown



No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. ~Garrett Hardin, The Ecologist, February 1974



My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. ~Cary Grant



To know the hight sic of a mountain, one must climb it. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa. ~Bob Veale, 1966



We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. ~Jean Guitton