In married life three is company and two none.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

I never fall in love.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

I don’t like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won’t hurt you. They’ll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

My friends are my estate.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.