Famous Quotes & Sayings

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!

Francois Rabelais

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

Germaine Greer

A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.

Francis Bacon

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Frances McDormand

I'm a recreational pot-smoker. There has never been enough of a distinction between marijuana and other drugs. It's a human rights issue, a censorship issue, and a choice issue.

George Washington

I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St. foin seed, and that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills. . . Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St. loin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where.

George Washington

A woman ... all beautiful and accomplished will, while her hand and heart are undisposed of, turn the heads and set the circle in which she moves on fire. Let her marry, and what is the consequence? The madness ceases and all is quiet again. Why? Not because there is any diminution in the charms of the lady, but because there is an end of hope.

George Washington

I never did, nor do I believe I ever shall, give advice to a woman who is setting out on a matrimonial voyage; first, because I never could advise one to marry without her own consent; and, secondly, I know it is to no purpose to advise her to refrain when she has obtained it. A woman very rarely asks an opinion or requires advice on such an occasion, till her resolution is formed; and then it is with the hope and expectation of obtaining a sanction, not that she means to be governed by your disapprobation, that she applies.

George Washington

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.

George Santayana

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

George Meredith

Heiresses are never jilted.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

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.

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.

Jeaniene Frost

All right, you got that out of your system. Can I get back in the boat without you striking me again? Or should I stay out here enjoying the marine life?" "Why don't you swim around until you find a shark? Then you can discuss how much the two of you have in common

George Eliot

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

George Eliot

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.

Geoffrey Chaucer

One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Frank Pittman

Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - it's supposed to make you married.

Frank Pittman

For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be there to know what we have done for those we love.

Frank Pittman

Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.