How Men Think
Throughout the good times and the bad times
As she sat by him, he whispered, eyes full of tears, 'You know what? You have been with me all through the bad times.'
'When I got fired, you were there with me. When my business failed, you were there. When I got shot, you were by my side. When we lost the house, you stayed right here. When my health started failing, you were still by my side...'
'You know what Martha?'
'What dear?' she gently asked, smiling as her heart began to fill with warmth.
'I’m beginning to think you’re bad luck.'
QuotaBillsHire character. Train skill. - Peter Schutz
Marriage is heaven and hell. - German Proverb
Character is perfectly educated will. - Novalis
Character is much easier kept than recovered. - Thomas Paine
Happiness is not the end of life; character is. - Henry Ward Beecher
Reputation is for time; character is for eternity. - J.B. Gough
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. - Leo Rosten
Love is a fair garden, and marriage a field of nettles. - Finnish Proverb
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. - Oscar Wilde
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. - Oscar Wilde
Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them. - Leo Rosten
Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth. - Daniel Webster
There's one thing about a late marriage - it doesn't last long. - Unknown
Marriage is like mushrooms: we notice too late if they are good or bad. - Woody Allen
Sometimes the best communication happens when you're on separate bikes. - Unknown
Character and personal force are the only investments that are worth anything. - Walt Whitman
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. - Gloria Steinem
The result of bad communication is a disconnection between strategy and execution. - Chuck Martin
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard
Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases. - Milton Berle
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw
We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life. - Jacqueline Bisset
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. - Aeschylus
We learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion. - Andrea Thompson
Your reputation is what you’re perceived to be, Your character is what you really are. - John Wooden
Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest. - Thomas J. Barnardo
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. - Oscar Wilde
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. - Mark Twain
Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one. - Unknown
Don't be accusing me of taking a bribe. You know what they call that, "definition of character." - Archie Bunker
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. - Ernest Hemingway
A relationship without trust is like a car without gas. You can stay in it all you want, but it won't go anywhere. - Jay Shetty
The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. - Antonin Scalia
The greatest mistake we humans make in our relationships: we listen half, understand quarter, think zero, and react double. - Unknown
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. - Unknown
It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain. - Rick Baker
Imagining what a character will do in a given situation - it's like an equation, and working it out is a marathon rather than a sprint. - Callum Turner
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. - Charles De Gaulle
More people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting. - Stephen Covey
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. - Unknown