Quotes for anniversaries and events (page 9)

“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”

Mark Twain book Following the Equator

Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XLVIII
Following the Equator (1897)
Variant: To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant, I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Not found in Twain's works, this was attributed to him in Reader's Digest (September 1939): no prior attribution known. Mark Twain’s father died when Twain was eleven years old.
Disputed
Variant: When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Variant: Never let your schooling interfere with your education.

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

No published occurrence of such an attribution has yet been located prior to one in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre — Band 3 http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2411/pg2411.html by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Disputed
Variant: Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”

Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Lady Bracknell, Act III
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

“You are Beautiful when you are happy”

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Source: An Ideal Husband

“The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.”

Oscar Wilde book Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young

Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Variant: The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Already Taken.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Anonymous advertising copywriter for Menards chain of hardware stores (2000), according to Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/20/be-yourself
Misattributed

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Lord Goring, Act III
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet