Faina Ranevskaya Quotes

• A real man is one who remembers the lady's birthday, but never knows how old she is. A man who never remembers her birthday, but knows exactly how old she is, - is her husband.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Husband, Real, Men

  33 Copy quote

• If a woman walks with her head down - she has a lover! If a woman walks with her head proudly up - she has a lover! If a woman carries her head straight - she has a lover! And actually, if a woman has a head, she has a
  lover!

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Lovers, Walks, Carrie

  33 Copy quote

• Optimism is lack of information.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Optimism, Information

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• Aging is tedious, but it is the only way to live long.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Long, Way To Live, Aging

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• Women are, of course, more intelligent. Have you ever heard of a woman that would lose her head only because a man has pretty legs?

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Intelligent, Men, Legs

  33 Copy quote

• Family can replace everything. So, before starting a family, one should think what's more important: family or everything.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Thinking, Important, Starting

  24 Copy quote

• If a patient wants to live, doctors are impotent.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Doctors, Want, Patient

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• A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Princess, Reality, Vices

  20 Copy quote

• When you get married, you'll understand what happiness is. But then it will be too late.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Happiness, Too Late, Married

  28 Copy quote

• God created women beautiful - so that men can love them - and stupid - so that they can love men.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Beautiful, Stupid, Men

  21 Copy quote

• You cannot cure sclerosis, but you can forget it.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Forget, Cures, Forget It

  16 Copy quote

• Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Hockey, Ice, Two

  23 Copy quote

• Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Unforgivable Sin, Sin, Unforgivable

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• Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Cake, Age, Cost

  28 Copy quote

• It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  People, Poverty, Wealth

  19 Copy quote

• I had enough brain to live a stupid life.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Stupid, Brain, Had Enough

  18 Copy quote

• Health is when it hurts in a new place every day.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Hurt, It Hurts, New Places

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• I've been smart enough to have lived my life stupidly.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Life, Smart, Enough

  11 Copy quote

• My fortune is in the fact that I don't need it.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Needs, Facts, Fortune

  9 Copy quote

• All my life I've swam in the loo butterfly style.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Butterfly, Style

  12 Copy quote

• It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Men, Shame, Creatures

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• Like all people in love, I was obnoxious and stupid, threatened suicide...And the one I was supposed to make worry only giggled.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Suicide, Stupid, People

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• Old age is when you are not bothered with bad dreams, but with bad reality.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Dream, Reality, Age

  22 Copy quote

• Spelling mistakes in a letter is like a bug on a white shirt.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Mistake, White, Letters

  19 Copy quote

• Women critics are amazons in climax.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Critics, Climax

  9 Copy quote

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