Affair Quotes - Page 2

• We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Cities, Firsts, Literature

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.27, BookBaby

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• I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.

  Merle Haggard

  Littles, Love Affair

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• Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Funny, Death

  "What Happens When the Average Lifespan Hits 100?" by Megan Erickson, bigthink.com.

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• An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

  Bette Davis

  Funny Marriage, Add, Spices

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Rivers, Law, Guy

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• One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Relationship, One Love

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• If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.

  Erma Bombeck

  Tired, Literature, Paper

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

  James McGreevey

  Men, Adults, Engaged

  Resignation Address, delivered 12 August 2004

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• Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

  Walter Gropius

  Guiding Principles, Design, Intellectual

  "Form and Function", www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2009.

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• There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

  Norman Mailer

  Children, Divorce, Cynical

  News Summaries, December 31, 1969.

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• So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us.

  Dennis Bergkamp

  Sports, Player, Numbers

  Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

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• The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Mirrors, Practice

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• I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

  John Newcombe

  Wimbledon, Love Affair

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• There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Strange, Certain

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.216

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• It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair.

  Gloria Stuart

  Rain, Struggle, Alaska

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• Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

  Mel Torme

  Movie, Uncles, Dad

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• I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

  Kim Cattrall

  Life Is Hard, Sensual, Enough

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• Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

  Plautus

  Courage, Evil, Overcoming

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• The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love, Funny, Humor

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• Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

  Julie Christie

  America, Time Passing, Time Passes

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• Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

  Jackie Collins

  Book, Long, Interesting

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• Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Running, Jobs, Simple

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• When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

  Joseph Campbell

  Marriage, Spiritual, Disappointment

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.6, Anchor

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• Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November.

  James McGreevey

  Office, November

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