Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca West

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

Woody Allen

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Walter Bagehot

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Sarah Fielding

There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled The Language Contradictory.... In the former, however plain the object of satire may be exhibited to the whole company, yet there always remains some little covering.... But in this last method, the defiance becomes more open and the impetuosity with which these contradictions are uttered (although the subjects of them are often of the most indifferent nature) evidently prove that they arise from passion.

Sarah Fielding

I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.

Samuel Johnson

It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.

Samuel Johnson

I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.

Nadine Gordimer

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

Seth MacFarlane

There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing.

Jessica Savitch

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

Sarah Silverman

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

William Blake

Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity.

Kristen Bell

I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.

Miguel de Unamuno

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

Publilius Syrus

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

Leigh Hunt

Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

Margaret Atwood

The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears.

Pierre Jean de Beranger

Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.