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

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.

Samuel Johnson

The triumph of hope over experience.

Simon Perry

It got to the point where there was panic over nothing. But don't panic, it's not going to smash anybody.

Rose Tremain

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

Liev Schreiber

I get panic attacks in big crowds.

Larry David

I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.

Tatiana Maslany

Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place.

Pema Chodron

What happens with you when you begin to feel uneasy, unsettled, queasy? Notice the panic, notice when you instantly grab for something. (51)

Leo Buscaglia

He who remains calm while those around him panic probably doesn't know what's going on.

John F. Kennedy

To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public.

Bobby Jones

We're still 12-2. It's not like we're pushing the panic button.