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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Jim Backus1913–1989
- Marriage
- Men
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon1561–1626Essays (1625)
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths,
And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
Philip James Bailey1816–1902Festus (1839), Scene XVI, The Hesperian Sphere
- Poetry
If the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.
James Baldwin1924–1987The Fire Next Time (1963)
- Race
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball1911–1989By Lucille Ball quoted in
It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day, than to say bright things from time to time.
Honoré de Balzac1799–1850Physiology of Marriage (1829)
- Marriage
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
Honoré de Balzac1799–1850A Woman of Thirty (1842), Ch. III: At Thirty Years
True love is eternal, infinite, always like unto itself; it is equable, pure, without violent demonstration; white hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.
Honoré de Balzac1799–1850The Lily of the Valley (1835), Part II: First Love, as translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
- Age
Honeymoon: a short period of doting between dating and debating.
RBRay Bandy
- Marriage
I’m not upset about my divorce. I’m only upset I’m not a widow.
Roseanne Barrborn 1952
- Marriage
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
John Barrymore1882–1942How to Be a Perennial Juvenile (1941)
- Women
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
Joseph Barth
- Marriage
“All the same,” said the Scarecrow, “I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.”
“I shall take the heart,” returned the Tin Woodman; “for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.”
L. Frank Baum1856–1919The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), Chapter VIn context
- Happiness
- Intelligence
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir1908–1986Conclusion, p. 541
- Friendship
- Life & Death
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength, each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.
Simone de Beauvoir1908–1986The Second Sex (1949), Bk. 2, Pt.. 5, Ch. 2: The Mother, p. 522
- Marriage