Faina Ranevskaya famous quotes

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

#Happiness #Too Late #Married

I've been smart enough to have lived my life stupidly.
-- Faina Ranevskaya

#Life #Smart #Enough

Aging is tedious, but it is the only way to live long.
-- Faina Ranevskaya

#Long #Way #Aging

Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor.
-- Faina Ranevskaya

#Sin #Unforgivable #Neighbor

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

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

Optimism is lack of information.
-- Faina Ranevskaya

#Optimism #Information

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

#Beautiful #Stupid #Men

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

You cannot cure sclerosis, but you can forget it.
-- Faina Ranevskaya

#Forget #Cures #Forget It

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

#Thinking #Important #Starting

If a patient wants to live, doctors are impotent.
-- Faina Ranevskaya

#Doctors #Want #Patient

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

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

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

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

Health is when it hurts in a new place every day.
-- Faina Ranevskaya

#Hurt #It Hurts #New Places

I had enough brain to live a stupid life.
-- Faina Ranevskaya

#Stupid #Brain #Had Enough

All my life I've swam in the loo butterfly style.
-- Faina Ranevskaya

#Butterfly #Style

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

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

My fortune is in the fact that I don't need it.
-- Faina Ranevskaya

#Needs #Facts #Fortune

Old age is when you are not bothered with bad dreams, but with bad reality.
-- Faina Ranevskaya

#Dream #Reality #Age

Spelling mistakes in a letter is like a bug on a white shirt.
-- Faina Ranevskaya

#Mistake #White #Letters

Women critics are amazons in climax.
-- Faina Ranevskaya

#Critics #Climax