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.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.

Virginia Woolf

Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.

William Wycherley

Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.

Rudolf Steiner

For human beings, love is the most important fruit of experience in the sense world.

Wayne Dyer

As you awaken you go beyond the need to perform and achieve when you go beyond it, you begin to develop an increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it. Love becomes what you are.

Tony Parker

I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Love is the true condition of human life.

Roberto Bolano

Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better

Sarah Dessen

The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.

Richard Owen

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.

William S. Burroughs

Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.

Woody Allen

The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts.

Richard Rohr

To give, and not demand that others receive . . . that is the crossover point to maturity. . .

Samuel Johnson

Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

W. Somerset Maugham

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

William O. Douglas

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

Joseph Addison

When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress