Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orson Welles

My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the rule of law was corrupted at that moment. Then came Vietnam, and marijuana, which clearly shouldn't be illegal, but is. If you go to jail for ten years in Texas when you light up a joint, who are you? You're a lawbreaker. It's just like Prohibition was. When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society, you see?

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.

O. Henry

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

Ellen Key

A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.

Eric Schlosser

Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a single joint to life imprisonment without parole but sets a murderer free after perhaps six years is in the grips of a deep psychosis.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.

Henrik Ibsen

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Hattie McDaniel

I am loathe to get married again. I've been married enough; I just prefer to forget it.

Henry Ford

Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.

Helen Rowland

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Helen Rowland

Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain.

Helen Rowland

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Helen Rowland

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

Helen Rowland

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

Helen Rowland

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

Helen Mirren

It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it.

Heinrich Heine

No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

Heinrich Heine

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

Heather Locklear

From an early age I was aware of what America meant, and how the Marines at Camp Pendleton were ready to defend us at a moment's notice. I also remember what fabulous bodies those troops had.

Hilary Duff

When the darkness rolls in, I'll be there through thick and thin.

Henry Ward Beecher

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Henry Ward Beecher

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

Henry L. Stimson

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Henry Kravis

But once you buy a company, you are married. You are married to that company.

Henry Fielding

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

Helen Clark

Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.