Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

I think I have always had a little humor.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

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.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Sometimes I wish my first word was ‚quote,‘ so that on my death bed, my last words could be ‚end quote.‘

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

My friends, there are no friends.

I’m odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‚See if you can blow this out.‘

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

My goal is to make everyone and anyone a Kevin Hart fan.

Love is a serious mental disease.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

People are always asking me in interviews, ‚What do you think of foreign affairs?‘ I just say, ‚I’ve had a few.‘

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

Since the very beginning, Emeril’s had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.