Oxymoron Quotes – Page 2

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

Author: Sacha Guitry

The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Author: Quentin Crisp

No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul; it takes one that knows it well — parent, child, brother, sister, intimate.

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Harold and I didn’t get along badly for married people, but the problem was I didn’t misunderstand him. No marriage can be completely successful without a reasonable amount of misunderstanding.

Author: Lillian Day

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

Author: Elbert Hubbard

Our union has been blest with issues, I said.

Author: Peter De Vries

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

Author: W. R. Inge

A mother starts out as the most important person in her child’s world, and if she’s successful in her work, she will eventually become the stupidest.

Author: Mary Kay Blakely

The average child is an almost non-existent myth. To be normal one must be peculiar in some way or another.

Author: Heywood Broun

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Author: Samuel Butler

People marry for a variety of reasons, and with varying results; but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

Author: James Branch Cabell

Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible; they often flourish and grow strong together.

Author: Willa Cather

Bachelors’ wives and old maids’ children are always perfect.

Author: Nicolas Chamfort

Something you consider bad may bring out your child’s talents; something you consider good may stifle them.

Author: Francois Rene De Chateaubriand

Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men.

Author: Susan Cheever

I read about divorce, and I can’t see why two people can’t get along together in harmony, and I see two people and I can’t see how either of them can live with each other.

Author: Franklin P. Adams

I cannot bear the crying of children, but when my child cries, I don’t hear.

Author: Anton Chekhov

It is a great happiness to see our children rising round us, but from that good fortune spring the bitterest woes of man.

Author: Aeschylus (Fifth Century B.C.)

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

Author: G. K. Chesterton

Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

Author: G. K. Chesterton

Of course a platonic relationship is possible — but only between husband and wife.

Author: Anonymous, From Ladies’ Home Journal

Nobody knows how to manage a wife but a bachelor.

Author: George Colman The Elder

It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.

Author: Anonymous

Two important things to teach a child: to do and to do without.

Author: Marcelene Cox

After winning an argument with his wife, the wisest thing a man can do is apologize.

Author: Anonymous

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Author: Vicki Baum

Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

Author: Thomas Fuller

It is The fortune commonly of knavish children To have the loving’st mothers.

Author: Thomas Middleton

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

Author: Thomas Szasz

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.

Author: W. Somerset Maugham

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

Author: Gloria Steinem

Marriage is lonelier than solitude.

Author: Adrienne Rich

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

Author: Helen Rowland

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Author: Edgar Watson Howe

Matrimony and bachelorhood are both of them at once equally wise and equally foolish.

Author: Samuel Butler

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

Author: G. C. Lichtenberg

It doesn’t matter whether you decide to marry or stay single; either way you’ll be sorry.

Author: Socrates

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Author: George Bernard Shaw

I am about to be married — and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

Author: Lord Byron

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Author: Mark Twain

If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry.

Author: Anton Chekhov

It may be compared to a cage, the birds without try desperately to get in, and those within try desperately to get out.

Author: Montaigne

If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

Author: P.D. James

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Author: Peter De Vries

One was never married, and that’s his hell; Another is, and that’s his plague.

Author: Robert Burton

A spoiled child never loves his mother.

Author: Sir Henry Taylor

We all of us wanted babies — but did we want children?

Author: Eda J. Leshan

The ever-alert, the conscientiously wakeful — how many fine things they fail to see.

Author: Norman Douglas

We must always be on the lookout for perverse dynamic processes which carry even good things to excess. It is precisely these excesses which become the most evil things . . . . The devil, after all, is a fallen angel.

Author: Kenneth E. Boulding