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

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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

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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

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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

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