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.

Juanita Johnson

I was just blessing God. As a mother, I was terrified. But now, instead of weeping and thinking that could have been my daughter, now I'm weeping to thank God she's with me and praying for the others.

A. Johnson

I thought something like this wouldn't happen until maybe next season, ... I know how hard it is for offensive linemen to break in on this level. Getting back to my natural position has really been a blessing for me. I'm much more comfortable now.

Joe Mesi

I think that, as crazy as it sounds, the two-year layoff might be a blessing in this situation.

Marvin Oliver's

I think it was a real blessing for all of us. It's not always going to be sunshine. Even in a rainy situation, you can still prevail. Sometimes, you just have to see what modifications you can make.

Jim Wilkes

He had to be hungry. And I look over, and he's saying the blessing before he eats.

Trai Byers

Live, laugh, and love!! Blessings!!

William Weld

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

William Wordsworth

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.

William Wordsworth

It is the 1st mild day of March. Each minute sweeter than before... there is a blessing in the air.

William Wycherley

I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.

Rodney Dangerfield

My wife she's fat. Why, if she lost a few pounds, she'd be perfectly round.

Rodney Dangerfield

I went to look for a used car and found my wife's dress in the back seat.

Rodney Dangerfield

Never tell your wife she's bad in bed. She'll go out and get a second opinion.

Rodney Dangerfield

Never guess your wife's size. Just buy anything marked petite and hold on to the receipt.

Ronnie Wood

I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd.

Rod Stewart

You know my wife, she's 6 ft 1 she can beat anyone up.

Rod Stewart

She was the first woman who left me. (on his former wife, Rachel Hunter, shortly after their break-up)

Warren Jeffs

So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God.