No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

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

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

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

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

As a kid, even I knew everything about my favourite cricketers. I used to know everything possible. Now I see kids knowing about me. It feels good.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

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

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

My friends are my estate.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

When I started out, I didn’t have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused – in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened – by the recurrence of Christmas.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Men want to make women happy.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.