Faina Ranevskaya Quotes

If a patient wants to live, doctors are impotent.

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?

Optimism is lack of information.

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

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.

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

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

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

Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor.

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

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.

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!

You cannot cure sclerosis, but you can forget it.

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

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

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

I had enough brain to live a stupid life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Women critics are amazons in climax.