49 Anniversary Quotes & Sayings

A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it. — Luc De Clapiers

If you can't do what you want, do what you can. — Lois McMaster Bujold

My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit. — Dorothy Height

Is easy, particularly if home has been a place of abuse or neglect. But oftentimes leaving home is difficult, especially if home has been a good place. Of course that is what home is meant to be: a good place, a place — Austin Fischer

I was stunned. Fernando looked out, still screaming horrible threats at his daughter. He had thrown her like a thing. — Elena Ferrante

No matter how much it takes in, this hunger never goes away ... Because it desires nothing else. — Kaori Yuki

It's not Utopian to believe that we can create a global registry of financial assets so we know who owns what in different countries. — Thomas Piketty

I count myself lucky to be fairly anonymous but occasionally have people tell me nice things. — Julie Bowen

And such is your definition of matrimony and dancing. Taken in that light, certainly their resemblance is not striking; but I think I could place them in such a view. You will allow that in both man has the advantage of choice, woman only the power of refusal; that in both it is an engagement between man and woman, formed for the advantage of each; and that when once entered into, they belong exclusively to each other till the moment of its dissolution; that it is their duty each to endeavor to give the other no cause for wishing that he or she had bestowed themselves elsewhere, and their best interest to keep their own imaginations from wandering towards the perfections of their neighbors, or fancying that they should have been better off with any one else. — Jane Austen

There is NOBODY like you, and once you realize that your entire future changes." - Peter Voogd — Peter Voogd

In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career. — Edward Albert

In Mencken's view, "religion belongs to a very early stage of human development, and ... its rapid decay in the world since the Reformation is evidence of genuine progress" ("The Ascent of Man"). — H.L. Mencken

It's about how whenever I fall in love, I have these expectations of the experience being a perfect dream, which, of course, ruins it. I imagine cradling my lover's head in my lap in a cab in the middle of the night, and drinking champagne in an elegant hotel suite. But life's rarely like that, and I usually end up walking home by myself in the rain. — Rufus Wainwright