How Men Think

Death ends a life, not a relationship. - Jack Lemmon

Life is a relationship between molecules. - Linus Pauling

Adversity tests a man's true character. - Unknown

Dreams are the touchstones of our character. - Henry David Thoreau

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. - Emily Dickinson

Character, not circumstances, makes the man. - Booker T. Washington

Sports do not build character; they reveal it. - John Wooden

Appropriate rules cultivate a disciplined character. - Bill Welker

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. - Oscar Wilde

Public behavior is merely private character writ large. - Stephen Covey

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed. - C.H. Parkhurst

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Do what you know and perception is converted into character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice. - Benjamin Disraeli

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock. - Charles Simmons

A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game. - Unknown

Marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever. - Quentin Crisp

Marriage is like mushrooms: we notice too late if they are good or bad. - Woody Allen

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. - John Wooden

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. - G K Chesterton

Sometimes the best communication happens when you're on separate bikes. - Unknown

In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person. - Wilbert Donald Gough

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. - Henry David Thoreau

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard

No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there. - Elizabeth Clarke Dunn

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. - Unknown

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge. - Bill Cosby

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. - Oscar Wilde

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying until I get it right. - Richard Pryor

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. - Mark Twain

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw. - Harvey Mackay

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. - Abraham Lincoln

Relationships are about give and take; not tit-for-tat. If you're keeping score, you'll lose at your own game. - Faydra D. Fields

Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming: 1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it; 2. Whenever you're right, shut up. - Patrick Murra

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together. - Sacha Guitry

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. - Andre Maurois

I used to live an isolated existence, even in relationships, but now my family knows me for who I really am. Mostly, that's a good thing. - Tim Allen