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marriage wedding divorce
Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china. Rebecca West
marriage funny-love best-love
In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker. Woody Allen
marriage race half
Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry. Walter Bagehot
marriage long disputes
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. Robert Louis Stevenson
marriage laughter philosophical
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. Robert Louis Stevenson
marriage husband latin
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. Sarah Fielding
marriage men together
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
marriage wedding men
I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding. Samuel Johnson
marriage funny-love hope
The triumph of hope over experience. Samuel Johnson
women reeds tempest
Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest. Richard Whately
women self crash
See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them. Woody Allen
women school people
Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school. Vanessa Bayer
women intelligent talent
A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon. Robin Hobb
women age strive
Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five. Samuel Johnson
women wrestling kind
Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with. Warren Beatty
women army blessing
Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse? Virginia Woolf
women diversity poetry
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. Virginia Woolf
women writing words-of-wisdom
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf
writing play important
Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say. Robert Creeley
writing people trying
Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you. Richard Paul Evans
writing suffering littles
A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer... Richard Baxter
writing emotional rocks
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks! Rex Reed
writing thinking hands
I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing. Rebecca West
writing known knows
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something. Rebecca West
writing editing edited
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. Russell Lynes
writing intelligent honest
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life. Russell Banks
writing paint draws
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing. Russell Banks