Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.

Henry David Thoreau

If it is the result of a pure love, there can be nothing sensual in marriage. Chastity is something positive, not negative. It isthe virtue of the married especially. All lusts or base pleasures must give place to loftier delights. They who meet as superior beings cannot perform the deeds of inferior ones.

Henry David Thoreau

In a pure society, the subject of marriage would not be so often avoided,--from shame and not from reverence, winked out of sight,and hinted at only; but treated naturally and simply,--perhaps simply avoided like the kindred mysteries. If it cannot be spoken of for shame, how can it be acted of? But, doubtless, there is far more purity, as well as more impurity, than is apparent.

Henry David Thoreau

If common sense had been consulted, how many marriages would never have taken place; if uncommon or divine sense, how few marriages such as we witness would ever have taken place!

Henry David Thoreau

Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believesin its inconceivable purity.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation

Jilly Cooper

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

Jerry Della Femina

Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising.

Jeff Vandermeer

If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something.

Jeff Sessions

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.

Fay Weldon

Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.

Fanny Kemble

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.

Fannie Hurst

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.

Ezra Pound

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Ezra Taft Benson

Fidelity to one's marriage vows is absolutely essential for love, trust and peace

Ezra Taft Benson

The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other.

Ezra Taft Benson

If we would truly seek to be more like our Savior and Master, learning to love as He loves should be our highest goal

Euripides

A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

Francis Bacon

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

Francis Bacon

Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

Francis Bacon

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

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.

George Will

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Jim Harrison

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.

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.