Quotes For Wife
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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Source: Minority Report
“We are in love and meant to be together.”
Source: Something Borrowed
Source: The Truth About Forever
“To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Part 9, LIV
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)
“Where there is great love there are always miracles.”
Book I, Ch. 4
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
“The business of business is business.”
Widely attributed to Milton Friedman, and sometimes cited as being in his work Capitalism and Freedom (1962) this is also attributed to Alfred P. Sloan, sometimes with citation of a statement of 1964, but sometimes with attestations to his use of it as a motto as early as 1923.
Disputed
Helen Schucman in A Course in Miracles (1976) by Helen Schucman and William Thetford, Ch. 16 The Forgiveness of Illusions, p. 338,#6.
Misattributed
“The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.”
Part II: Te Palinure Petens (p. 64)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
“There was content, but no container.”
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Four, The Self, p. 135
“We need not think alike to love alike.”
This attribution seems to have begun in the 1960s, and has been debunked at "Who really said that?" by Peter Hughes at UU World (15 August 2012) http://www.uuworld.org/ideas/articles/229844.shtml; previously misattributed in A Chosen Faith (1991) by John A. Buehrens; also in Unitarian Universalist Origins: Our Historic Faith by Mark W. Harris https://web.archive.org/web/20060101061859/www.uua.org/info/origins.html
Misattributed
“There is no part of me that is not of the gods!”
VIII : Of the Mystic Marriage and Consummation of the Elements.
Liber XV : The Gnostic Mass (1913)
“People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.”
Quoted in "Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures" - Page 74 - by Yann-Brice Dherbier, Pierre-Henri Verlhac - 2006
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Attributed
“I love you for making the difference in my life.”
Oprah Winfrey Surprise Spectacular
“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.”
On marriage, as quoted in "48 of Prince Philip's greatest gaffes and funny moments" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/04/48-prince-philips-greatest-gaffes-funny-moments/, The Telegraph (2 August 2017)
“The world's become a little too mean.”
Saturday as Usual
A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 (1998)
“The end of the world. This is not the end of the world.”
"Unguided Tour", in The New Yorker (31 October 1977), final lines; also in I, Etcetera (1977)
Context: A curious word, wanderlust. I'm ready to go.
I've already gone. Regretfully, exultantly. A prouder lyricism. It's not Paradise that's lost.
Advice. Move along, let's get cracking, don’t hold me down, he travels fastest who travels alone. Let's get the show on the road. Get up, slugabed. I'm clearing out of here. Get your ass in gear. Sleep faster, we need the pillow.
She's racing, he's stalling.
If I go this fast, I won't see anything. If I slow down —
Everything. — then I won't have seen everything before it disappears.
Everywhere. I've been everywhere. I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
Land's end. But there's water, O my heart. And salt on my tongue.
The end of the world. This is not the end of the world.
