Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Villains are usually the worst casuists, and rush into crimes to avoid less. Henry VIII. committed murder to avoid the imputation of adultery; and in our times, those who commit the latter crime attempt to wash off the stain of seducing the wife by signifying their readiness to shoot the husband.

Charles Dickens

I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both.

Charles Spurgeon

But you are not under a system similar to that by which the Jews were obliged to pay tithes to the priests. If there were any such rule laid down in the Gospel, it would destroy the beauty of spontaneous giving and take away all the bloom from the fruit of your liberality! There is no law to tell me what I should give my father on his birthday. There is no rule laid down in any law book to decide what present a husband should give to his wife, nor what token of affection we should bestow upon others whom we love. No, the gift must be a free one, or it has lost all its sweetness.

Alan Bradley

My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.

Alan Bennett

Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.

Akshay Kumar

I have finally become a husband and I am genuinely enjoying every moment of it.

Chris Cleave

On our honeymoon we talked and talked. We stayed in a beachfront villa, and we drank rum and lemonade and talked so much that I never even noticed what color the sea was. Whenever I need to stop and remind myself how much I once loved Andrew, I only need to think about this. That the ocean covers seven tenths of the earth's surface, and yet my husband could make me not notice it.

David McCullough

When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

Byron Katie

When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Dave Chappelle

I have a very good life, a high quality of life. I have both money and time. No one has that.

Catherine Deneuve

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

Carl Icahn

I enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Alan Sillitoe

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

Charlie Munger

This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.

David Hoffman

The only problem with getting married is that we can't fornicate anymore.

Elizabeth Moon

I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

Charlotte Bronte

Reader, I literally married him.

Bipasha Basu

My wedding won't be a hush-hush affair. When I get married, everyone will get to know about it... there'll be nothing speculative about my wedding.

Nia Peeples

When I was younger, before I was married and had children, I really was nit-picky, a perfectionist. I was very much into different people's approval. I had too much time on my hands, I think.

Bar Refaeli

Justin Bieber and I are going to get married some day. I also like Tom Cruise. He's very classy.

Ariel Gore

Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

I got married because it was the right time and the right thing to do.