When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they “don’t understand” one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

Helen Rowland Quotes

Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract. Someone is thinking of self comforts, conveniences, freedoms, luxuries, or ease. Sometimes the ceaseless pin pricking of an unhappy, discontented, and selfish spouse can finally add up to serious physical violence. Sometimes people are goaded to the point where they erringly feel justified in doing the things that are so wrong. Nothing of course justifies sin.

Spencer W. Kimball Quotes

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, “Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?” holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. “Yet,” added he, “none of you can tell where it pinches me.

Plutarch Quotes

You can’t stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.

Mike Tyson Quotes

Show us a man
Who never makes a mistake
And we will show you a man
Who never makes anything
The capacity for occasional blundering
Is inseparable from the capacity
To bring things to pass
The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes
Are the men who sleep at Greenwood

H. L. Wayland Quotes

I have found that
I always learn more from my mistakes
Than from my successes
If you aren’t making some mistakes
You aren’t taking enough chances

John Sculley Quotes

I believe in recovery
And I believe that
As a role model
I have the responsibility
To let young people know that
You can make a mistake
And come back from it

Ann Richards Quotes

Understand that
Most problems are a good sign
Problems indicate that progress is being made
Wheels are turning
You are moving toward your goals
Beware when you have no problems
Then you’ve really got a problem….
Problems are like landmarks of progress

Scott Alexander Quotes

Problems are the price of progress
Don’t bring me anything but trouble
Good news weakens me

Charles F. Kettering Quotes

Such a wife as I want…
Must be young
Handsome
I lay most stress upon a good shape
Sensible a little learning will do
Well-bread, chaste, and tender.
As to religion
A moderate stock will satisfy me
She must believe in God
And hate a saint

Alexander Hamilton Quotes

The majority of persons
Choose their wives with
As little prudence as they eat
They see a troll
With nothing else to recommend her
But a pair of thighs
And choice hunkers
And so smart to void their seed
That they marry her at once
They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment
With handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks
Most men are accredited fools
Shortly after they leave the womb

Edward Dahlberg Quotes

David Viscott Quotes

Failure should be our teacher
Not our undertaker
Failure is delay
Not defeat
It is a temporary detour

Not a dead end
Failure is something we can avoid
Only by saying nothing
Doing nothing
And being nothing

Denis Waitley Quotes

Every person
Who has become successful
Has simply formed the habit
Of doing things
That failures dislike doing
And will not do

Everything in life
That we really accept
Undergoes a change
So suffering must become Love
That is the mystery

Katherine Mansfield Quotes

Suffering is
The ancient law of love
There is no quest without pain
There is no lover
Who is not also a martyr

Heinrich Suso Quotes

The universe appears to me like an immense
Inexorable torture-garden.
Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion
These are its monstrous flowers
And its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering

Octave Mirbeau Quotes

If you commit a big crime
Then you are crazy
And the more heinous the crime
The crazier you must be
Therefore you are not responsible
And nothing is your fault

Peggy Noonan Quotes

I doubt if a single individual
Could be found from the whole of mankind
Free from some form of insanity
The only difference is one of degree
A man who sees a gourd
And takes it for his wife
Is called insane
Because this happens to very few people

Desiderius Erasmus Quotes

Man disavows
And Deity disowns me
Hell might afford my miseries a shelter
Therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths
All bolted against me

William Cowper Quotes

It is not the critic who counts
Not the man who points out
How the strong man stumbled
Or where the doer of deeds
Could have done better
The credit belongs to those
Who are actually in the arena
Who strive valiantly
Who know the great enthusiasm
The great devotions
And spend themselves in a worthy cause
Who at the best
Know the triumph of high achievement
And who, at the worst, if they fail
Fail while daring greatly
So that their place
Shall never be with those cold and timid souls
Who know neither victory nor defeat

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Far better is it
To dare mighty things
To win glorious triumphs
Even though checkered by failure
Than to rank with those poor spirits
Who neither enjoy much
Nor suffer much
Because they live in a gray twilight
That knows not victory
Nor defeat

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Having once
Decided to achieve a certain task
Achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste
The gain in self confidence
Of having accomplished
A tiresome labor is immense

Thomas A. Bennett Quotes

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly
Do not look at small advantages
Desire to have things done quickly
Prevents their being done thoroughly
Looking at small advantages
Prevents great affairs
From being accomplished

Confucius Quotes

Finish each day
And be done with it
You have done what you could
Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in
Forget them as soon as you can
Tomorrow is a new day
Begin it well and serenely
And with too high a spirit
To be encumbered with your old nonsense

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Ninety-nine percent
Of the world’s lovers
Are not with their first choice
That’s what makes the jukebox play

Willie Nelson Quotes

On this narrow planet
we have only the choice between two unknown worlds
One of them tempts us –ah!
What a dream
To live in that!
The other stifles us
At the first breath.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes

Were it offered to my choice
I should have no objection
To a repetition of the same life
From its beginning
Only asking the advantages
Authors have in a second edition
To correct some faults in the first

Benjamin Franklin Quotes