Joyce Brothers (Joyce Diane Brothers) Quotes

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • Travel
  • Connection
  • Gift

• The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Food
  • Language
  • Dead

• A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.

  

  Ferdinand Buisson
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Justice

• To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • Men
  • True
  • Morality

• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Bad
  • College

• I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Time
  • Home
  • House

• You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Remember
  • Simple
  • Office

• I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Thought
  • Loved
  • Stubborn

• I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• I love Austin for vintage shopping, and there are some really good places in L.A., too.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Good
  • Shopping
  • Vintage

• That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Respect
  • Football
  • Reason

• If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Fashion
  • Choose
  • Ballerina

• Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper.

  

  James Gleick
  • Believe

• The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

  

  James A. Forbes
  • Freedom
  • Light
  • Justice

• Like tens of millions of Americans, I will not vote for Hillary Clinton and desire to vote for a bold, conservative leader.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Desire
  • Bold

• I think that there's something really powerful about the sun and its effect on the human psyche. I lived in a place with no windows for twelve years.

  

  Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction
  • Powerful
  • Sun

• I write about stuff that happens to me, so I try to live as interesting a life as possible.

  

  Kesha
  • Life
  • Live
  • Interesting

• The payoff of a customer-centric approach to software and digital product design is substantial and long-lasting for both companies and their customers.

  

  Alan Cooper
  • Long
  • Design

• Wait for the fruit to fall into your hand.

  

  Pam Muñoz Ryan
  • Hand
  • Fall

• A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life

• People who grew up on my books are now able to get the point across to others that they're worth reading.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • People
  • Up
  • Reading

• I'm 58 years old. I got married for the first time - it's about time, right? Growing up as a gay woman, you just don't ever think about that, and then I thought, about 10 years ago, 'You know, I think within 10 years gay marriage will be legal.' And here we are, 10 years later, making it legal.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.

  

  Joyce Brothers
  • Marriage
  • Meals
  • Trash