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.

Moliere

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

Jimmy Cannon

I judge how much a man cares for a woman by the space he allots her under a jointly shared umbrella.

Bob Phillips

Love is a state of mind which has nothing to do with the mind.

Aristotle Onassis

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Curtis Jackson

I love you like a fat kid love cake.

Anna Nicole Smith

I don't have a boyfriend right now. I'm looking for anyone with a job that I don't have to support.

Remy de Gourmont

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

Tony Curtis

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

Tom Arnold

My wife's nagging is like living near the airport. After a while you don't notice it any more.

Rick Yancey

The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.

Kevin Harrington

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.

Marshall McLuhan

Language is a form of organized stutter.

Marc Bloch

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

Peter McWilliams

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

Quentin Tarantino

I've never used High Definition video, never, ever, ever, ever, ever. And I never will. I can't stand that crap.

Selma Blair

I played teen roles until high definition came out.

Lilith Saintcrow

Oh God, Oh God we’re all gonna die doesn’t really fit the definition of banter, now does it?

Joseph Campbell

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.