Quotes by Authors - Page 139

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry no longer' 'I'm sorry not yet.'
W.H. Auden
Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.
Doris Lessing
Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.
Tobias Wolff
Men marry because they are tired women because they are curious: both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
Oscar Wilde
The immature mind hops from one thing to another the mature mind seeks to follow through.
Harry A. Overstreet
Remember it is as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
William Thackeray
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.
Thomas Fuller
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
Sir Francis Bacon
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.
Sir Francis Bacon
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
Anonymous
A good husband should always bore his wife.
Fred Jacob
Marriage n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master a mistress and two slaves making in all two.
Ambrose Bierce
Any marriage happy or unhappy is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance however passionate.
W.H. Auden
I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning a parrot that swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.
Marie Corelli
Seldom or perhaps never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Carl Jung
A husband always prefers his wife's mother-in-law to his own.
Anonymous
What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
Finley Peter Dunne
No labourer in the world is expected to work for room board and love -except the housewife.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.
Richard J. Needham
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
Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way and the other to let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
If thee marries for money thee surely will earn it.
Ezra Bowen
There is a radicalism in all getting and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical while marriage is conservative.
Eric Hoffer
Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant of a teacher and a learner.
John Updike
A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to exercise her own.
Russell Green
Marriage: a job. Happiness or unhappiness has nothing to do with it.
Kathleen Norris
Pains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That's what makes a marriage last - more than passion or even sex.
Simone Signoret
As a general thing people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age when they do not really know what their own kind is.
Robertson Davies
There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
Adela Rogers St. John
There is nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
Isaac Disraeli
Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.
Erica Jong
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.
Jonathan Swift
Politeness goes far yet costs nothing.
Samuel Smiles
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.
Lord Chesterfield
Make ye no truce with Adam-zad - the Bear that walks like a man.
Rudyard Kipling
Though I've belted you and flayed you By the livin' Gawd that made you You're a better man than I am Gunga Din.
Rudyard Kipling
Man passes away his name perishes from record and recollection his history is as a tale that is told and his very monument becomes a ruin.
Washington Irving
God give us men. A time like this demands Strong minds great hearts true faith and ready hands! Men whom the lust of office does not kill Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy Men who possess opinions and a will Men who love honor men who cannot lie.
J.G. Holland
I decline to accept the end of men... I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
William Faulkner
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it And - which is more - you'll be a man my son!
Rudyard Kipling
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Thomas Jefferson
The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Men have become the tools of their tools.
Henry David Thoreau
Terminological inexactitude
Winston Churchill
Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
As ill-luck would have it.
Miguel de Cervantes
Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.
Anonymous
I find I'm luckier when I work harder.
Dr. Denton Cooley
Some folk want their luck buttered.
Thomas Hardy
Chance favors those in motion.
Dr. James H. Austin
Pennies do not come from heaven- they have to be earned here on earth.
Margaret Thatcher
Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.
L.M. Montgomery
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone it has to be made like bread remade all the time made new.
Ursula K. LeGuin
The more you invest in a marriage the more valuable it becomes.
Amy Grant
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Dianne Feinstein
I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled have persevered when others gave up in despair have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial industry and singleness of purpose. As a result they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Grenville Kleiser