“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin
Quotes For Wife
A collection of quotes on the topic of for boyfriend, for wife, love, love.
Best quotes for wife
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
Hermann Hesse book Narcissus and Goldmund
Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)
“You will always love, and you will always be loved.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Variant: The only remedy for love is to love more.
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Lysander, Act I, scene i.
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
“My best friend is one who brings out the best in me”
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist
Actually due to Harris Weinstock: "My best friend is the man who can bring out of me my best, and your best friend is the one who tends to bring out the best in you" (May 1914) Attributed to Henry Ford as early as 1948.
Misattributed
Quotes For Wife
“Love the life you live.
Live the life you love.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Variant: Love the life you live. Live the life you love.
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Variant: You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
Variant: Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
“Love is not what you do. Love is what you are.”
Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian
“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
“Life is not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.”
George Strait (1952) American country music singer, actor and music producer
Variant: Life is not the breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away.
“Love is the greatest refreshment in life”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
“There is another world, but it is in this one.”
Paul Éluard (1895–1952) French poet
Il y a assurément un autre monde, mais il est dans celui-ci...
Œuvres complètes, vol. 1, Gallimard, 1968.
“To love is to will the good of the other.”
Thomas Aquinas book Summa Theologica
II-II, q. 26, art. 6
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author
“If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eyes”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
“You have only one life, make the most of it.”
Louis Sachar book Holes
Source: Holes, page 57.
Context: "You don't know that," said Mr. Pendanski. "I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it."
“Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
“Without love, there's nothing without love.”
Jon Bon Jovi (1962) American singer and musician
Without Love
Music, Slippery When Wet (1986)
“Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.”
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
"Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" in a letter to Arabelle Porter (28 May 1955); published in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956 (1995). Sometimes misquoted as "Be in love with your life every minute of it."
Variant: Be in love with your life every detail of it
“I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.”
Borís Pasternak book Doctor Zhivago
Variant: I love you madly, irrationally, infinitely.
Source: Doctor Zhivago (1957)
“I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.”
Eric Rücker Eddison book A Fish Dinner in Memison
A Fish Dinner in Memison (1941)
Context: The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.
“Love life more than the meaning of it.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book Los hermanos Karamazov
Source: The Brothers Karamazov (Bratři Karamazovi)
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Variant: nobody hαs ever meαsured, not even poets, how much the heαrt cαn hold.
“To know and not to do is really not to know.”
Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker
“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Variant: A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
“Love is the strongest force in the world.”
Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer
Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
“My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
“Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
“A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.”
Milton Berle (1908–2002) American comedian and actor
“Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.”
Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) American general and politician, 7th president of the United States
Statement shortly before his death, as quoted in Life of Andrew Jackson (1860) by James Parton, p. 679.
“That's not my love; that's just your life.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Isso não é o meu amor; é apenas a sua vida.
“When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.”
Sacha Guitry (1885–1957) French dramatist and playwright
Book of Humorous Quotations, ed. Connie Robertson (1998), page 83
Helen Schucman (1909–1981) Clinical Psychologist
Jesus' Course in Miracles (2000) by Helen Schucman and William Thetford, Ch. 16 The Forgiveness of Illusions, p. 162
“I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.”
Henny Youngman (1906–1998) American comedian
"The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America" (2001)
“The important thing is to be nothing.”
Bram van Velde (1895–1981) Dutch painter
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“Because I loved myself, I was loved.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
Source: Oedipus at Colonus, Line 1616–18
“And may the last voice you hear be mine!”
Frank Sinatra (1915–1998) American singer and film actor
http://www.slideshare.net/hazman/frank-sinatra-2436159
“I like the saying "The world is as you are."”
David Lynch book Catching the Big Fish
The Circle, p. 21
Catching the Big Fish (2006)
Context: I like the saying "The world is as you are." And I think films are as you are. That's why, although the frames of a film are always the same — the same number, in the same sequence, with the same sounds — every screening is different. The difference is sometimes subtle but it's there. It depends on the audience. There is a circle that goes from the audience to the film and back. Each person is looking and thinking and feeling and coming up with his or her own sense of things. And it's probably different from what I fell in love with.
So you don’t know how it's going to hit people. But if you thought about how it's going to hit people, or if it's going to hurt someone, or if it's going to do this or do that, then you would have to stop making films. You just do these things that you fall in love with, and you never know what's going to happen.
“None of it is important or all of it is.”
John Steinbeck book The Log from the Sea of Cortez
Introduction
The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951)
Context: "... Let us go," we said, "into the Sea of Cortez, realizing that we become forever a part of it; that our rubber boots slogging through a flat of eel-grass, that the rocks we turn over in a tide pool, make us truly and permanently a factor in the ecology of the region. We shall take something away from it, but we shall leave something too." And if we seem a small factor in a huge pattern, nevertheless it is of relative importance. We take a tiny colony of soft corals from a rock in a little water world. And that isn't terribly important to the tide pool. Fifty miles away the Japanese shrimp boats are dredging with overlapping scoops, bringing up tons of shrimps, rapidly destroying the species so that it may never come back, and with the species destroying the ecological balance of the whole region. That isn't very important in the world. And thousands of miles away the great bombs are falling and the stars are not moved thereby. None of it is important or all of it is.
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) French writer and aviator
“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author
Variant: The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.
Source: The Way of Chuang Tzu
“You are my sun,
my moon, and
all my stars.”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
Variant: Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
“I have too many fantasies to be a housewife…. I guess I am a fantasy.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Variant: I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
Lois Wyse (1926–2007) American advertising executive
“A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
“I like you very much. Just as you are.”
Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary
Source: Bridget Jones's Diary
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Variant: It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
“The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
“In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“If love is great, then it is worth fighting for.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel
Source: Clockwork Angel
“If there are no books. There is no civilization.”
Thomas Cahill (1940) American scholar and writer
“Love is anterior to life,
Posterior to death,
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of breath.”
Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Love, p. 167
Collected Poems (1993)
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Long-term relationships--the ones that matter--are all about weathering the peaks and valleys.”
Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven
Jo, Chapter 33, p. 259
Source: 2009, Safe Haven (2010)
“All I think of ever is that I love you.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“We turn not older with years but newer every day.”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
Source: http://archive.emilydickinson.org/correspondence/norcross/l379.html Letter
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Book III, Ch. 5
Attributed
“Each time you happen to me all over again.”
Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Source: The Age of Innocence
“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet