Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca West

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

Woody Allen

Marriage? That's for life! It's like cement!

Woody Allen

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Will Ferrell

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.

Richard Pryor

I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.

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.

Richelle Mead

For every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.

William Moseley

That's a very important thing in life, to be really looked upon for the qualities which you hold in yourself and not all of superficiality.

Zac Posen

Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.

Rick Warren

The greatest things in life are not things.

Khaled Hosseini

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

Mahatma Gandhi

True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.

Peter Stormare

To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

Joni Mitchell

But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day

Dalai Lama

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].

Sinclair Lewis

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

Barry Manilow

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.