Ma Bailey: First Harry, now George. Annie, we're just two old maids now. Annie: You speak for yourself, Miss B.
Clarence: I'm Clarence Oddbody, AS2. George Bailey: Oddbody... Hey, what's an AS2? Clarence: Angel, Second Class. [the bridgekeeper, overhearing it, falls backwards in his chair completely spooked]
George Bailey: Well, just come back here, Mister. I'll give her a kiss that'll put hair back on your head!
George Bailey: I can see through you [Ma Bailey] George Bailey: all the way to your back collar button.
Violet Bick: [seeing George across the street] Excuse me. I think I got a date. But er... stick around fellas just in case, huh?
Cousin Tilly: Mrs Bailey is on the phone. George Bailey: I don't want Mrs Bailey I want my wife... Mrs Bailey? Oh, that's my wife.
I often wonder when I make a film - I'm thinking of making a film of the Buddha - and I often wonder: If Buddha had all the elements that are given to a director - if he had music, if he had visuals, if he had a video camera - would we get Buddhism b...
The thing I find about the movie industry is that 99 percent of the people are absolute scum. They're horrible people, they really are. Very nasty killer rabbits who hate movies. But the other 1 percent are really the greatest, most wonderful people ...
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.
The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.
ABC of a wonderful life: A man of the right ATTITUDE is GOOD; A man of the right ATTITUDE+the correct BEHAVIOR is BETTER; But, a man of the right ATTITUDE+the correct BEHAVIOR +an upright CHARACTER is THE BEST human.
I built my marriage brick by brick. And I destroyed it blanket by blanket.
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Being laughed at is excellent preparation for marriage.
The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce.
Marriage is a legal contract -- it's not a sacred thing.
I’m a combat specialist and marriage counselor.
John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.
Marriage can be expensive, and if I lose millions then it'll be the best millions I've spent.
I don't like being a voyeur, looking into other people's marriages.
Marriage is not difficult...It's dealing with the other person that makes it difficult....