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

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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

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

This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the House - and for the good of all, he should step aside and address those things that should be most important - his and his family's well-being.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.
William Dean Howells

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.
Freddy Fender

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

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.
Joycelyn Elders

What a day-to-day affair life is.
Jules Laforgue

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
Alfred Kazin

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.
Judith Viorst

When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street.
Jessica Tandy

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

When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.
Rose Tremain

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

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
Toni Morrison

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld