Famous Quotes & Sayings

Germaine Greer

A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.

Germaine Greer

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

Gertrude Stein

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

Gertrude Stein

A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

Gertrude Stein

More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.

Gerard Way

I'm the master of the wicket!

Havelock Ellis

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

Havelock Ellis

Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.

Havelock Ellis

Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which is a more or less necessary condition for sexual intercourse. The play of courtship cannot, therefore, be considered to be definitely brought to an end by the ceremony of marriage; it may more properly be regarded as the natural preliminary to every act of coitus.

Harry Kemp

And wilt thou sing the shadowy hosts that never march again?

Harry Dean Stanton

Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.

Harry Houdini

Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

Harry Houdini

Some say I do it this way, others say I do it that way, but I say I do it the other way.

Harry Houdini

Keep up your enthusiasm! There is nothing more contagious than exuberant enthusiasm.

Harry Houdini

Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.

Harry Houdini

Never tell the auidience how good you are, they will soon find out for themselves.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.

Frances Wright

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

Francesca Lia Block

I was staring to learn how to forget the things that made me sad. It was like a charm you followed step-by-step, collecting and blending the ingredients, placing everything in its proper place, reciting the incantation. It was the magic of forgetting.

Francesca Lia Block

It seems impossible that you can love one person so much, no matter what happens, no matter what they do.

Francesca Lia Block

Magic can be found in stolen moments.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

Fran Lebowitz

Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

George W. S. Trow

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

George Washington

I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St. foin seed, and that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills. . . Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St. loin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where.

George Washington

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.

George Washington

A woman ... all beautiful and accomplished will, while her hand and heart are undisposed of, turn the heads and set the circle in which she moves on fire. Let her marry, and what is the consequence? The madness ceases and all is quiet again. Why? Not because there is any diminution in the charms of the lady, but because there is an end of hope.

George Washington

I never did, nor do I believe I ever shall, give advice to a woman who is setting out on a matrimonial voyage; first, because I never could advise one to marry without her own consent; and, secondly, I know it is to no purpose to advise her to refrain when she has obtained it. A woman very rarely asks an opinion or requires advice on such an occasion, till her resolution is formed; and then it is with the hope and expectation of obtaining a sanction, not that she means to be governed by your disapprobation, that she applies.

George Washington

When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.

George Washington

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.

George W. Bush

Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.

George Santayana

At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may find themselves in the same boat.

George Santayana

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.