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.

Laura Bush

I think it is one of the most beautiful Christmas trees I've ever seen.

Gwen Harris

Here it's raining, but when we go north for a meet it's sunny and beautiful and we're running well and jumping well and throwing well.

Joe Taslim

Having kids has been a turning point in my life because when I was still single, all I wanted was to impress beautiful girls.

Diego Maradona

He's a leader and is offering classes in beautiful football. He has something different to any other player in the world.

Bruce Iglauer

His truly beautiful voice and melodic, understated guitar style contrasted dramatically with the more rough and raucous blues and blues-rock that came before him.

Russell Crowe

He's gonna travel with me, ... A Beautiful Mind.

Cillian Murphy

He's a wonderful, beautiful misfit, and he tends to trust and fall in love with people immediately.

Carolyn Miller

It is a beautiful sacrifice taking the time to do, when each of us surrenders everything to this one common cause.

Francois Doumen

It is a beautiful dream, but not one I would be expecting.

Robert Creeley

God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.

Richard Baxter

Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.

William Wordsworth

All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.

Richard Gere

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

Rebecca Wells

I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.

Roald Amundsen

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

Richard Rohr

Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.