Everybody experiences and understands how love feels. Some experiences are positive, but most people have had their hearts broken at one time in their life, or have endured unsuccessful marriages! Here are a few funny words to the wise from famous actors, authors or thinkers on the subject of love and married life.
The famous essayist Michel de Montaigne lived and wrote in the 1500s and once said: "A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband." Shakespeare echoed these sentiments on marriage when he stated "many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage", proving that attitudes towards love and marriage have changed little over the centuries!
These feelings have since been echoed by many famous comedians and writers and actors looking on the cynical side of romance and love.
Practical but Funny Advice
Jim Carrey commented that "behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes", and Mickey Rooney famously gave this practical but funny advice to young lovers: "Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day." Additionally, not to be outdone by the men, the actress and comedienne Roseanne Barr once quipped that her "husband said he needed more space. So I locked him outside".
It appears that cynicism in love has always existed and and even within a funny quote, some truth can be uncovered. Aphra Behn was one of the first professional woman writers. She published novellas such as Oroonoko in the 1680s and also wrote plays and poetry. She was a forward-thinking and strong-minded woman who was at one point recruited as a political spy by Charles II. Perhaps this part of her working life also affected her views on love, as she once said that "love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret".
Additionally, even great philosphers such as Friedrich Nietzsche are also not immune to the pitfalls of love and have commented on the nature of love. Nietzsche neatly summarises the idea of love insightfully: "Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not." Ah, how true, just look at your ex wife/husband!
Famous and Funny Parenthood Quotes
Bill Cosby once neatly summarised parenthood when he quoted that "fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope". Oh, the joys of being a parent are vast! The strange, weird and wonderful world we plummet into when we become parents is one of universal wonder. Most of the time, we wonder "why didn't I just get a hamster?" "Where has my life gone?" and "is that what I look like now?" Dean Martin once quoted that as he had seven (!) kids, "the three words you hear most around my house are: "Hello, goodbye, and I'm pregnant." Scary.
Henry Fielding wrote in his novel Tom Jones that "when children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief". This appears to be an insightful look at children and their natural naughtiness when left alone. P. J. O'Rourke once commented on how "everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them", and this is most certainly a perceptive and insightful comment - simply ask your mother-in-law how best to raise your child; she is full of "advice". However, children often say the funniest things, and as Oliver Wendell Holmes once remarked: "Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."
Funny and Famous Work Quotes
Work. We all have to do it, some love it, most hate it and as Oscar Wilde once said: "Work is the curse of the drinking classes." Oh, the time we would have if we did not have to work. Steve Martin quoted that "all I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work". Which is fair enough. I think that is a good deal that most of us would be happy with.
Muhammad Ali remarked on his boxing career that "It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up." Well, each to their own! However, for most of us struggling to survive in the rat-race, "the trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat" - Lily Tomlin.
Famous and Funny Death Quotes
The only inevitable thing in life is death, as they say. I agree with Woody Allen who once stated: "I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." The remarkable fact about human beings is that we can find humour even in the most dire and depressing circumstances and situations. Therefore, when it comes to death, the more macabre and mysterious we find it, the funnier the quotes seem to be! Here are a few quotes that made me chuckle and think; regardless of age, colour, creed or occupation, we are all in this life together, and we all have to die sometime, so hey, we may as well have a laugh about it now!
- "Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours" - Yogi Berra
- "For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off" - Johnny Carson
- "At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I'm not there I carry on as usual" - Patrick Moore
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