marriage quotes & quotations

February 19, 2009

Marriage changes passion – suddenly you’re in bed with a relative.
~marriage quotes by Author Unknown

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.
~famous quotes about Marriage by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
~marriage sayings by Jean Rostand, Le Mariage, 1927

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
~marriage quotes by Sacha Guitry, Elles et toi, 1948

It takes a loose rein to keep a marriage tight.
~inspirational sayings about Marriage quotes by John Stevenson

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
~marriage quotes by Harlan Miller

Quotations about Happiness

January 12, 2009

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys.  If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.  ~Fyodor Dostoevsky


What a wonderful life I’ve had!  I only wish I’d realized it sooner.  ~Colette

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.  ~James Openheim

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.  ~John Barrymore

“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think.  Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called.  ~A.A. Milne

Quotations about Habits

December 12, 2008


Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.  ~Spanish Proverb

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.  ~Marcel Proust

The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.  ~Eng’s Principle

The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.  ~Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913

Habits are safer than rules; you don’t have to watch them.  And you don’t have to keep them, either.  They keep you.  ~Frank Crane

Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent.  It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.  ~William James, The Principles of Psychology

Quotations about Laughter

November 18, 2008

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.  ~Victor Borge


What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.  ~Yiddish Proverb

When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing each other.  ~Alan Alda

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion.  I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.  ~Kurt Vonnegut

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.  ~Irish Proverb

Laughter gives us distance.  It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.  ~Bob Newhart

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.  ~Puzant Kevork Thomajan

Random Quotes 2

September 15, 2008

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
~Author : Jane Austen Sayings

Ah Mozart He was happily married – but his wife wasn’t.
~Author : Victor Borge Quotes

Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.
~Author : Agesilaus the Second Sayings

If I was a cowboy in a lynch mob, I think I’d try to stay near the back. That way, if somebody shamed us into disbanding, I could sort of slip off to the side and pretend I was window-shopping or something.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Quotes

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.
~Author : George Washington Carver Sayings

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
~Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose.
~Author : Ayn Rand Capitalism the Unknown Ideal p 42 Sayings

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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
~Author : Democritus Quotes

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.
~Author : Richard Baxter Sayings

I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
~Author : Lawrence Peter Berra Quotes

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.
~Author : Denise Levertov Sayings

It’s an insane tragedy that 700,000 people get a diploma each year and can’t read the damned diploma.
~Author : William E Brock Quotes

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
~Author : John Muir Sayings

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.
~Author : Sir Winston Churchill Sayings

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
~Author : George Jean Nathan Quotes

A good friend can shield you from the storm.
~Author : Rhea Olsen Sayings

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure
~Author : Nicolas Boileau Quotes

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty
~Author : Jeseph Joubert Sayings

Joel That’s the movies, Ed. Try reality. Ed No thanks.
~Author : Ellen Herman Quotes

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Sayings

Success Quotations

September 8, 2008

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.  ~Booker T. Washington

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.  ~George Smith Patton

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.  ~Author Unknown

How can they say my life is not a success?  Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?  ~Logan Smith

Success and failure.  We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not.  They’re companions – the hero and the sidekick.  ~Laurence Shames

The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure.  ~B.C. Forbes

Quotes For Success

September 8, 2008

Smarts and action are on the same side of the equation where the sum is success.  ~Garrett Hazel

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it…. Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.  ~Tennessee Williams

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.  ~William Feather

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.  ~Christopher Morley

The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success.  ~Irving Berlin

Success is simply a matter of luck.  Ask any failure.  ~Earl Wilson

Success Sayings

September 8, 2008

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.  ~Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book

I dread success.  To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship.  I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.  ~George Bernard Shaw, 28 August 1896<!–, letter to Ellen Terry, Collected Letters, edited by Dan H. Laurence, vol. 1, 1965; CTO–>

Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves.  ~Larry King

Success has made failures of many men.  ~Cindy Adams<!–, Joey Adams, Cindi and I, 1957, MBT p67–>

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.  ~Donald A. Miller

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.  ~Author Unknown