Norman Douglas Quotes

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

There's the conforming 9-to-5-lifestyle thing. Then there's, like, settling down, trying to find a balance in a relationship sense, or having a dog and having a house. All these things, like, they're not really gonna make you happy.

We all want something else other than what we have and don't realize what you got works. It works. It does work. You gotta work. Marriage is work. Marriage is a career. It's not an adventure.

I'm not out running around all the time. I'm not partying constantly and constantly battling myself. I'm with someone, and we are very, very happy.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

I love being at home, having friends over.

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

I've been married 23 years now. Gone from spending all of my time on the road to being a husband and father.

At his heart, Gambit is a good man who believes in taking care of his friends, and his friends are what's most important to him. People are his home. He will do anything for those who matter to him.

When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

If I'm home, I'll be happy. And if I'm around family, and if I'm working on projects with friends, I don't know what else I'd want to be doing.

I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.

My friends love coming over because they get fed.

As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

I love being home. I have friends that come over.

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again.

I've got a great wife, a great life.

There is no guarantee what will give you happiness any which way. I know many married people who are unhappy.

There's no point for me to party. I have a girl that I love. I don't need that.

I like having a woman. I like having someone to come home to, to make all of the hard work feel worth it. I need someone with me. And I want someone.