Corrupt and incompetent police officers have a long history of being protected by their colleagues, police internal affairs and the government.

— Steven Magee

Do not keep control over household affairs. The one who keeps control has to wander around. The unusable money [torn notes, ruined coins] are offered as homage in prayer rituals! ‘Live’ as a ‘friend’ with the ‘wife’. You are her ‘friend’ and she is your ‘friend’.

— Dada Bhagwan

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later he may be with his real girlfriend.

— Amy Sedaris

Extra-marital affairs become things of legend… and often the undoing of legends… and mere mortals.

— Cathy Burnham Martin

Getting even… Why do we want it in the first place? Is it a question of honor, nothing but an attempt to teach other people not to mess with us, or something else? Or… maybe it is just our way to make everything right when the Universe fails to do so. Our way to make the world right itself.

— Gina Wings

He should in humility have asked her why it was that he was naturally a cuckold, why two women of different temperaments and characters had been inspired to have lovers at his expense. He should be telling her, with the warmth of her body warming his, that his second wife had confessed to greater sexual pleasure when she remembered that she was deceiving him.

— William Trevor

He wasn't yours to get hurt by. He was someone else's, and you knew that, so why are you offended? What right do you have to be hurt when you were a part of the deception (lying by omission)?

— Donna Lynn Hope

How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything, and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you, it was only an episode.

— W. Somerset Maugham

If it seems perfect, you're being played with.

— Gina Wings

If two people truly have feelings for one another then they don’t have an affair. They get a divorce, and they sort out their feelings. You are accountable for the people you hold hostage in a marriage when your mind and heart refuse to fully commit to them.

— Shannon L. Alder