Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary MacLane

When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if the man and woman live together without the love, no ceremony in the world can make it a marriage.

Mary MacLane

I've never made plans for more than a day ahead.

Mary-Louise Parker

I don’t think it’s that controversial. I’m really in favor of legalizing marijuana. I thought people would be more offended by [this series] than they are. I’m surprised they weren’t.

Mary McCarthy

Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.

Marvin J. Ashton

It is up to each of us to search for and build upon the gifts which God has given. We must remember that each of us is made in the image of God, that there are no unimportant persons. Everyone matters to God and to his fellowmen.

Mark Twain

Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.

Mark Twain

Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

Nicholas Stern

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

Nicholas Stoller

It's all in L.A. There might be some location shooting as well. I think it's pretty short. I heard it was like six to eight weeks, which is pretty short. But you don't have to do makeup or anything. There's no hair, there's no makeup, there's like one trailer for Jason and one for the actors who do cameos. It's quick. So that's what they're saying. I don't know if that will change.

Nicholas Negroponte

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?

Nicholas Sparks

Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.

Nicholas Sparks

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.

Nicholas Sparks

There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard.

Nicholas Sparks

I tend to be pretty efficient with my time. I work on a novel for four to five hours a day, and then the rest of my day is spent doing other things, whether it's spending time with my family, or going through and making notes on the script, or working on the marketing. It's just a matter of scheduling.

Nicholas Sparks

Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.

Nicholas Sparks

It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems.

Nawal El Saadawi

I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

Neal A. Maxwell

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

Neal A. Maxwell

If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second.

Natalie Wood

When I get married it will be for keeps.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Manuscripts do not burn.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Manuscripts don't burn.

Oscar Wilde

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

Oscar Wilde

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Oscar Wilde

Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

Oscar Wilde

Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

Oscar Wilde

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

Oscar Wilde

Bad manners make a journalist.

Oscar Wilde

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

Oscar Wilde

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

Maeve Binchy

I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

Mae West

I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.

Mae West

Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.