To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
- Aristotle
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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
- Lauren Bacall
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Francis Bacon
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It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot
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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
- Alan Bleasdale
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A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
- Pearl S. Buck
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
- George Burns
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To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
- John Burroughs
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Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
- Martin Buxbaum
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
- Albert Camus
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
- Truman Capote
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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
- Cato
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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
- Maurice Chevalier
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
- Agatha Christie
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
- Frank A. Clark
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Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
- Harold Coffin
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The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
- Joan Collins
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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
- Confucius
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When you become senile, you won't know it.
- Bill Cosby
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Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
- Bill Cosby
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The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
- Hume Cronyn
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Old age is no place for sissies.
- Bette Davis
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The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
- Doris Day
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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
- Doris Day
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
- Emily Dickinson
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The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
- Leon Edel
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
- T. S. Eliot
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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All diseases run into one, old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
- Euripides
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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
- Sam Ewing
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Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
- Jules Feiffer
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At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?
- Jules Feiffer
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Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
- Jim Fiebig
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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
- Calista Flockhart
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
- Henry Ford
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
- Harrison Ford
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He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
- Gene Fowler
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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.
- Anatole France
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
- Robert Frost
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Old age is a shipwreck.
- Charles De Gaulle
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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
- Ira Gershwin
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There is still no cure for the common birthday.
- John Glenn
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In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
- Knut Hamsun
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I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
- William Ernest Hocking
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Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
- Bob Hope
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You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
- Bob Hope
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I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
- Bob Hope
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
- Victor Hugo
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
- Victor Hugo
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No man is ever old enough to know better.
- Holbrook Jackson
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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
- Louis Kronenberger
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The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
- Doug Larson
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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
- Stanislaw Lec
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
- Doris Lessing
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Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
- Sinclair Lewis
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
- C. S. Lewis
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
- Don Marquis
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Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
- Don Marquis
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
- Andre Maurois
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There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
- Mignon McLaughlin
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As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
- Golda Meir
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
- Bette Midler
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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
- Dwight L. Moody
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
- Satchel Paige
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It takes a long time to become young.
- Pablo Picasso
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
- J. B. Priestley
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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.
- John B. Priestly
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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!
- Leo Rosten
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Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
- Mary Schmich
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Youth is wasted on the young.
- George Bernard Shaw
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
- Beverly Sills
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
- Muriel Spark
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
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Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
- Tom Stoppard
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Age considers; youth ventures.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
- James Thurber
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The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
- Paul Tillich
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Mark Twain
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
- Mark Twain
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I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
- Liv Tyler
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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
- Samuel Ullman
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Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
- Bill Vaughn
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An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
- Bill Vaughn
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The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
- Bill Vaughn
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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
- Bill Vaughn
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People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.
- Bill Vaughn
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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
- Bill Vaughn
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
- Bill Vaughn
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If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
- Bill Vaughn
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It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
- Bill Vaughn
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The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
- Bill Vaughn
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Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
- Bill Vaughn
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It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.
- Bill Vaughn
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The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
- Bill Vaughn
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The tax collector must love poor people - he's creating so many of them.
- Bill Vaughn
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Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
- Bill Vaughn
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I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
- Bill Vaughn
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Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
- Bill Vaughn
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Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
- Bill Vaughn
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Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
- Bill Vaughn
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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
- Pope Paul VI
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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
- Judith Viorst
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- Voltaire
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
- Kurt Vonnegut
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
- Fay Weldon
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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
- Bob Wells
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A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
- Joey Adams
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In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
- Robert Anderson
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
- Honore de Balzac
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
- Honore de Balzac
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
- Brendan Behan
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
- Josh Billings
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Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
- Countess of Blessington
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A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
- James H. Boren
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The husband who doesn't tell his wife everything probably reasons that what she doesn't know won't hurt him.
- Leo J. Burke
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
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Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
- Billy Connolly
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Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
- Irwin Corey
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I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
- Bette Davis
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It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
- Isadora Duncan
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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
- Robert Frost
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A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
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On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
- Emma Goldman
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I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.
- Lee Grant
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
- Robert Graves
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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
- Sacha Guitry
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A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.
- Grace Hansen
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Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
- Sydney J. Harris
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The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine
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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
- Katharine Hepburn
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
- Katharine Hepburn
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The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
- A. P. Herbert
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Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.
- Paul Hornung
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Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
- Elbert Hubbard
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All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
- Raymond Hull
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
- St. Jerome
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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
- George Jessel
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The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
- George Jessel
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There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
- Adela Rogers St. Johns
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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
- Joseph Joubert
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Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
- Jean Kerr
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If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
- Alan King
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Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
- Alan King
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
- Alan King
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Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
- Alan King
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More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
- Doug Larson
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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
- Stephen B. Leacock
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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
- Groucho Marx
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
- William Somerset Maugham
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
- Mignon McLaughlin
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If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
- Mignon McLaughlin
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Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
- H. L. Mencken
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
- H. L. Mencken
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
- H. L. Mencken
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If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.
- H. L. Mencken
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
- H. L. Mencken
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
- H. L. Mencken
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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
- Harlan Miller
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Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
- Marilyn Monroe
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
- Michel de Montaigne
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
- Michel de Montaigne
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Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
- Beverley Nichols
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When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
- Prince Philip
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Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
- Jean Rostand
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It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.
- Helen Rowland
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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
- Helen Rowland
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Before marriage, a man will lay down his life for you; after marriage he won't even lay down his newspaper.
- Helen Rowland
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A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland
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In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
- Helen Rowland
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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
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Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
- George Bernard Shaw
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
- Herbert Spencer
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Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
- Gloria Steinem
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
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A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
- Paul Sweeney
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One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
- Judith Viorst
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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
- Peter De Vries
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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
- Peter De Vries
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
- Mae West
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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
- Mae West
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
- Oscar Wilde
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Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
- Thornton Wilder
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Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
- Henry Youngman
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The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
- Henry Youngman
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