Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!

Olive Schreiner

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Olive Schreiner

A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.

O. J. Simpson

I've - all my life with Nicole [Brown], no matter what was going on, I handled it without being physical with her.

O. Henry

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

Octavia Butler

A victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of God. Or a victim of God may, Through shortsightedness and fear, Remain God's victim, God's plaything, God's prey.

Michael Buckley

By the way, you don't need the makeup." Puck said.

Michael Buckley

When did you suddenly become Mister Maturity?

Michael Cera

I find being on set very invigorating. I never have a problem with that component of it, no matter the situation.

Michael Caine

The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all.

Michael Caine

I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others properties.

Michael Caine

Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.

You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the business.

Merle Shain

Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.

Merle Shain

We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night.

Merle Shain

I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well as commitment for all time. The kind that is essential for loving marriages - and love affairs, as well - is a commitment to preserving the essential quality of your partner's soul, adding to them as a person rather than taking away.

Merle Haggard

'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is.

Merle Haggard

We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee, we don't take trips on LSD. We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street, we like living right and free.

Melina Mercouri

There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.

Mason Cooley

The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted.

Mason Cooley

Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single.

Mason Cooley

Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages.

Mason Cooley

Reason argues the case, but fact may determine the judgment.

Mason Cooley

The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.

Mason Cooley

Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.

Mason Cooley

I may forget my dignity, but you may not.

Mason Cooley

Aphorisms may equivocate, but they must not wobble.

Mason Cooley

Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer.

Mason Cooley

Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.

Mason Cooley

The poor live slow and hard; the rich, fast and easy. The rest of us shuffle along as we may.

Mason Cooley

Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.

Mary Kay Ash

Pathetic Earthlings... There's not enough makeup in the universe to cover those hideous, age-ravaged potato sacks that you call faces.

Mary Archer

I think we explored the further reaches of 'for better or for worse' than some other married couples.