Mutual Quotes

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. (Samuel Richardson)
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. View quote
W. H. Auden
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. View quote
Octavio Paz
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition. View quote
Jean Piaget
It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. View quote
Ann Landers
Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys. View quote
Dick Cheney
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth. (Havelock Ellis)
Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries. View quote
Maimonides
That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger--not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose. View quote
George Eliot
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. View quote
Cicero
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding. View quote
Henry James
Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion. View quote
Livy
That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats. View quote
Timothy Garton Ash
Nothing brings people together more, then mutual hatred. (Henry Rollins)
Five coordinating mechanisms seem to explain the fundamental ways in which organizations coordinate their work: mutual adjustment, direct supervision, standardization of work processes, standardization of work outputs, and standardization of worker skills. View quote
Henry Mintzberg
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides they are not keeping anything back there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth. View quote
George Sand
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love. View quote
Robin Morgan