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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

-- Agnes Repplier

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky.

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.

-- Miriam Robbins

The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

-- Tom Robbins

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else.

-- Rogers

I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.

-- Will Rogers

Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

-- Helen Roland

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

-- Jean Jacques Rousseau

A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.

-- Helen Rowland

In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.

-- Helen Rowland

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

-- Helen Rowland

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

-- Helen Rowland

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

-- Rita Rudner

Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

-- Rita Rudner