Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. L. Mencken

The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.

H. L. Mencken

He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.

H. L. Mencken

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

H. L. Mencken

Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

H. L. Mencken

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

H. L. Mencken

The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all other men are just as easy to fool.

H. L. Mencken

I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.

H. L. Mencken

The longest sentence you can form with two words is: I do.

H. L. Mencken

Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.

H. L. Mencken

The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.

H. L. Mencken

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

George Herbert

The March sunne raises but dissolves not.

Gene Hackman

I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.

Gary Johnson

Having a debate right now over whether or not to legalize marijuana is kind of like having a debate over whether the sun will come up tomorrow.

Gary Johnson

Let's end the unworkable marijuana prohibition and put our money where our mouth is. Let's solve the problems like border crime. We can do it with pot legalization.

Gary Johnson

I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in spite of being a handicap, it shouldn't be criminal.

Gary Johnson

90% of the problem with marijuana is prohibition related, not use related.

Friedrich Nietzsche

For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Gloria Allred

Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.

Francis Quarles

Death aims with fouler spiteAt fairer marks.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.

Horace

Brighter than Parian marble.

Richard Ford

If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.

Chris Evans

If I'm acting at all, it's going to be under Marvel contract, or I'm going to be directing. I can't see myself pursuing acting strictly outside of what I'm contractually obligated to do.

I don't think there is anything to be freaking out about. The markets will come back and they will move upward again.

Paul Tagliabue

I don't think the negotiations are going well. I'm not optimistic. I characterize it as one step forward, several steps back. I don't know if it will be resolved by the end of the March meetings at this point.

I don't think that Qualcomm has the third-generation cellular market or the CDMA market that the analysts were expecting.

I do think there is room at the very top for marginal tax changes.