Reel Life Wisdom - 1954 | Reel Life Wisdom

“Modern marriage. Once it was ‘See somebody, get excited, get married’. Now it’s ‘Read a lot of books, fence with a lot of four syllable words and psychoanalyze each other until you can’t tell the difference between a petting party and a civil service exam.”

“Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.”

"We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change."

"Life, every now and then, behaves as though it had seen too many bad movies, when everything fits too well - the beginning, the middle, the end - from fade-in to fade-out."

“A captain’s job is a lonely one. He’s easily misunderstood.”

“You want to know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's love of a buck, the cushy job, more important than the love of man!”

“I have learnt how to live - how to be ‘in the world’ and ‘of the world’, and not just to stand aside and watch. I will never, never again run away from life.”

“A ship is like a family. We all have our own ideas of right and wrong but we have to pitch in for the good of the family.”

“A woman happily in love, she burns the souffle. A woman unhappily in love, she forgets to turn on the oven.”

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1954