Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Rostand

Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.

Jim Backus

Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.

Jill Bennett

Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.

Jill McCorkle

I think that marriage vows should include an escape clause that says the contract is broken if one party ups and makes a big switch in religion or politics or aesthetic taste. I mean, these shifts just aren't fair, and we need an easier way out.

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.

Jean M. Auel

No, my publisher has always done the marketing.

Jean Giraudoux

A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.

Jean Giraudoux

An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

James C. Collins

Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great.

James C. Collins

Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.

Jackie Mason

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

Jack Wild

I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

Christopher Guest

I'm married to the person I fell in love with.

Christopher Hitchens

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Marketing just got hard.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Now, if you truly understand how marketing works today, you know there is no individual six-month campaign; there's only the 365-day campaign, during which you produce new content daily.

Gary Vaynerchuk

For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods.

Gary Vaynerchuk

The best marketing strategy ever: CARE

Gary Becker

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

Gareth Gates

I've had lots of offers of marriage and from women wanting to have my kids.

Fulton J. Sheen

At Cana, [Mary] gave Him as a Savior to sinners; on the Cross He gave her as a refuge to sinners.

Fulton J. Sheen

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

Franz Grillparzer

The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.

Franz Grillparzer

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

Frank Zappa

I'm not going to be Bill Clinton and say I never inhaled. I did inhale. I liked tobacco a lot better.

Jeff Lindsay

Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers. -Dexter

Jeanette Winterson

Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.

Jim Caviezel

I married a woman who is much better than me, I'm very fortunate to be with her and I know I'll be happy with her the rest of my life.

Jello Biafra

What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

Jeb Bush

We now have a lack of readiness that is quite scary. We have planes that were - that Harry Truman inaugurated, the B-52. We have - the Navy has been gutted and decimated. The readiness of the Marines is way down.