Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.

Charles Soule

Ive always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it.

Charles Stross

The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.

Charles Stanley

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

Charles Spurgeon

Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!

Alan Watts

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Alan Watts

The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.

Alan Watts

To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.

Alan Watts

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Bob Monkhouse

Marriage is an investment which pays dividends if you pay interest.

Bernard Malamud

One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

E. W. Howe

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

Bette Davis

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

John Mortimer

Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.

Lord Byron

All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.

Heather Locklear

Lust is the sin that gets me excited. Luckily, because I'm married, I also get really good jewelry out of it.

Henny Youngman

We were married for better or worse. I couldn't have done better, and she couldn't have done worse.

Chris Rock

Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.