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Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in my bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.
Woody Allenborn 1935Standup Comic (1999)
- Comedy
- Marriage
My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not you’ll become a philosopher.
Socrates470–399 BC
- Marriage
- Philosophy
Love is friendship set on fire.
Jeremy Taylor1613–1667
Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968The Drum Major Instinct (1968)
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
- Marriage
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778
- Writing
Not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius.
NJNikolaus Joseph von JacquinOften credited to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Genius
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948
- Courage
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish it’s source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Anaïs Nin1903–1977The Four-Chambered Heart (1950), p. 48
Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Zsa Zsa Gabor1917–2016
- Marriage
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
Life is but a brief moment. The years go by quickly and old age arrives suddenly before we have an inkling. People desire so many things and waste their days in vain. Some yearn for gold, others for power, yet others for glory and a higher station. But when death’s moment nears and they look back at their lives they’ve lived, they realise they’ve been happy only during those moments when they’ve loved.
BVBorje Vahamaki
- Life & Death
You are what you love. Not what loves you.
Charlie Kaufmanborn 1958“Donald Kaufman” (Nicolas Cage) in Adaptation (2001 film)
Absence is to love as wind is to fire; It extinguishes the small and kindles the great.
Roger de Bussy-Rabutin1618–1693
She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other.
Robin Williams1951–2014Good Will Hunting
- Marriage