My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every time after that, they'll never get all the pennies out of the pot.
Interpretation
Intimacy and romance are often stronger in the early stages of a relationship.
This quote illustrates the idea that the passion and physical connection in a marriage tend to diminish over time. It humorously suggests that if a couple could quantify their intimate moments with pennies, their initial enthusiasm would far exceed any later encounters, highlighting the importance of maintaining that initial spark in a long-term relationship.
In practice
In a wedding speech, highlighting the importance of keeping the romance alive in marriage.
In her opinion, the parrots were annoying arrogant. You could buy the most beautiful one in town, she observed, but that won't make it love you. You could feed it, care for it and exclaim over its loveliness, but there was nothing to guarantee that it would stay home with you. There had to be a lesson in there somewhere.
But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
Oh, Mona, we're all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear! Don't be so afraid to cry . . . or laugh, for that matter. Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!
I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.
I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.
I understand lost love, and I think that can destroy a man more than anything if it was a deep love that is lost somehow.
At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.
Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
Everyone has to die. I'm not particularly scared about it. What really frightens me is that if I go before my wife, I will leave her alone, and vice versa. The ideal would be to die together.
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