Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel de Montaigne

Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

Michel de Montaigne

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Michel de Montaigne

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Michel de Montaigne

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

Michel de Montaigne

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

Michel de Montaigne

We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.

Michael Schudson

Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.

Michael Schenker

I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.

Michael Scheuer

Well, the next attack in the United States will be larger than 9/11. And there's no doubt that if they have a weapon of mass destruction, they'll use it.

Michael Novak

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

Michael K. Simpson

Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent.

Michael Kinsley

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.

Mark Twain

If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base

Mark Twain

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

Mark Twain

It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.

Mark Twain

History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

Mark Twain

The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.

Mark Twain

When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

Marianne Williamson

The more mature we are, the more receptive we are.

Marianne Williamson

Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.

Marianne Williamson

A relationship is not meant to be the joining at the hip of two emotional invalids. The purpose of a relationship is not for two incomplete people to become one, but rather, for two complete people to join together for the greater glory of God.

Marianne Williamson

There is a collective force rising up on the earth today, an energy of the reborn feminine... This is a time of monumental shift, from the male dominance of human consciousness back to a balanced relationship between masculine and feminine.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.

Marilyn Monroe

A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.

Maria Bamford

Here's the Middle East. Here's the mosque, here's the church, open the temple, everybody's MAD!

Margot Asquith

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Margot Fonteyn

Genius is another word for magic.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Don't let anybody take your manhood.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

Mark Victor Hansen

Ninety percent of the success of any product or service is its promotion and marketing.