Famous Quotes & Sayings

August Strindberg

It's terribly hard to be married ... harder than anything else. I think you have to be an angel.

Arthur Rubinstein

When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.

Arne Jacobsen

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

Arnold Bennett

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, I have noticed that marriage is the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Edwin Land

Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union--a union of immortal affections, of undying faculties, of an imperishable destiny.

Edward Johnson

I can never again see a UNITED STATES MARINE without experiencing a feeling of reverence.

Edward Kennedy

It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.

Edmund Wilson

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Edna Ferber

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt.

Benjamin Franklin

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Benjamin Franklin

If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.

Benjamin Franklin

The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.

Benjamin Franklin

Marry above thy match and you will get a master.

Ben Affleck

There are two things for a marriage to be good. One is to work hard on it. The other one is to marry above you. And I succeeded at both of those.

Barbara Walters

I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!

Anton Chekhov

If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.

Anton Chekhov

I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.

Anton Chekhov

A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.

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.

Arianna Huffington

It's not just the over $8 billion that we would be saving in law enforcement; it's also the over $8 billion that we would be making by taxing marijuana... We are filling our jails with nonviolent drug offenders - predominantly young, predominantly African American... It's a great beyond left and right issue. It has support across the political spectrum and also the support of the majority of the American people.

Anthony Trollope

That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.

Anthony Trollope

But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball-room, and is hardly master of his tongue at any time, is the most eloquent of beings, and especially eloquent among beautiful women.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life’s journey…

Diane Ackerman

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Derrick Jensen

a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves

Dean Koontz

I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef, it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies stacked on one another. And in my case, that's thousands of minutes I go through to get from one scene to the next and build it that way.

Craig Ferguson

Justin Bieber's tour bus was stopped by Canadian border patrol agents. And they found marijuana. The agents said Bieber was a disgrace to Canada and should never come back. Then they found the marijuana.

Craig Ferguson

The first ads for medical marijuana have started airing on television in California. The ads are quite expensive. It costs a lot of money to buy 30 seconds during 'Spongebob Squarepants.'

Craig Ferguson

My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-aged Asian lady who hadn't noticed he was with his family. He was certainly pleased about it.

Connie Sellecca

I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.