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Quotes For Life
Marriage The Quotations PageThe conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. Alan Patrick Herbert A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967) All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership. Ann Landers (1918 - 2002) A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. Anne Morrow Lindbergh I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more. Candice Bergen (1946 - ) All marriages are mixed marriages. Chantal Saperstein There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. Clint Eastwood (1930 - ) A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. Dave Meurer, "Daze of Our Wives" Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Our Wedding, 1992 Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Antigone Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain. Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Alcestis, 438 B.C. One man's folly is another man's wife. Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950) Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to. J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941 I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person. Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state. Kathleen Norris Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. Mae West (1892 - 1980) Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day. Mickey Rooney (1920 - ) A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin My toughest fight was with my first wife. Muhammad Ali (1942 - ) We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. Nick Faldo If you would marry suitably, marry your equal. Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD) That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life. Paul Tournier A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973) I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Rita Rudner In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. Rita Rudner When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?' Rita Rudner Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Rasselas There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Rambler #18
Music The other arts persuade us, but music takes us by surprise. -Edward Hanslick If the musician could say it in words, he wouldn't need to write the music, would he? -Stanley Kramer A musical instrument is a mysterious thing, inhabiting a complex sort of space: it is both an ordinary three-dimensional object and a portal to another world; it exists as a physical entity solely so that it can be transcended. -Joyce Carol Oates Mathematics is the music of the mind. Music is the mathematics of the soul. -Unknown Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul. -Shneur Zalman
Pain The cure for anything is salt water- sweat, tears, or the sea. -Isak Dimesen The wonder of emotional pain is that when it is executed with sufficient elegance, it is exquisite beyond all other sensation. -Jenny Rice
Paradoxes Murder is a crime. Describing it is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing it is. -Gershon Legman
Philosophy I once dreamed that I was a butterfly. I flew here and there in the breeze, taking delight in everything around me. Soon I awoke, and I was myself again. Now, I don't know if I was a philosopher dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I am now a butterfly dreaming that I am a philosopher. -Chinese Philosopher In life there are only two things to worry about, whether you are sick or you are well. If you are well you have nothing to worry about; if you are sick you have only two things to worry about, whether you live or die. If you live you have nothing to worry about; if you die, you have only two things to worry about, whether you go to Heaven or Hell. If you go to Heaven you have nothing to worry about; if you go to Hell you'll be too busy shaking hands with your old friends to worry. So why worry? -Irish Philosophy It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. -James Thurber Being a philosopher, I have a question for every answer. -Robert Zend Writing The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.- Inigo DeLeon I am not young enough to know everything.-Oscar Wilde
Music Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde
Passion The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892) My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962 He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930) Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784) The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless. Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), O Magazine, September 2003 Judgement, not passion should prevail. Epicharmus Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee. Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD) Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. Georg Wilhelm, O Magazine, September 2003
Friendship The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. Sir Francis Bacon It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives to us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil, spring up into deathless friendships, big deeds of worth, and a memory that will not soon fade. . . . George Matthew Adams A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Proverb I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) Italian poet
Wisdom "The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." -Jean Paul "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." -Socrates War"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die." -Salvador Dali
Women My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures. -- Michael Caine (Alfie, 1966) My wife is going to kill me. But you look like my wife, so that's Ok! -- Jay Leno (as he had his arms around Curvaceous cook Nigella Lawson) Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both. -- Samuel Butler Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton (quoted in Canada Monthly, Jun 1963) Women are like Elephants. I like to watch them, but I wouldn't want to own one. -- W.C. Fields (Mississippi, 1935) I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine. -- Mel Gibson There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse. -- Laurence Sterne I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against. -- David Niven (The Moon is Blue, 1953) Guys are like dogs. They keep coming back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time...they're gone. -- Lenny Bruce One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money. -- Edgar Watson Howe
Love
 "You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her." -Anon. "Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up." -James Baldwin "Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never." -Charles Caleb Colton "For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." -Judy Garland "The only abnormality is the incapacity to love." -Anais Nin "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." -Ingrid Bergman Other sources If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -Lily Tomlin Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired-Robert Frost Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. -Jules Renard If I love you, what business is it of yours? -Goethe
Death I spend money with reckless abandon. Last month I blew $5000 at a reincarnation. I got to thinking, what the hell, you only live once! -- Ronnie Shakes I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists. -- Billy Bob Thornton I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. -- Woody Allen The report of my death was an exaggeration. -- Mark Twain (New York Journal, June 1897) The man that runs away lives to die another day. -- A. E. Housman (A Shropshire Lad, 1896) If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. -- Sam Levenson I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too. -- Jack Benny Death was Nature's way of telling you to slow down. -- Terry Pratchett (Strata, 1981) It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you're dead, you're made for life. -- Jimi Hendrix Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. -- Somerset Maugham
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