Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Joubert

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

King James I

Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.

King Edward VIII

When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else.

Moliere

Better to be married than dead!

Moliere

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

Moliere

A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.

Moliere

Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.

Milton Berle

My wife and I have a perfect understanding. I don't try to run her life, and I don't try to run mine.

Milton Berle

Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases.

Milton Friedman

The major basis for my opposition to marijuana prohibition has not been how badly it's worked, the fact that it's produced much more harm than good - it has been primarily a moral reason: I don't think the state has any more right to tell me what to put into my mouth than it has to tell me what can come out of my mouth.

Milton Friedman

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.

Milton Friedman

Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I think it's absolutely disgraceful that our government, supposed to be our government, should be in the position of converting people who are not harming others into criminals, of destroying their lives, putting them in jail. That's the issue to me. The economic issue comes in only for explaining why it has those effects. But the economic reasons are not the reasons

Milton Friedman

There is no logical basis for the prohibition of marijuana. $7.7 billion is a lot of money, but that is one of the lesser evils. Our failure to successfully enforce these laws is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people in Colombia. I haven't even included the harm to young people. It's absolutely disgraceful to think of picking up a 22-year-old for smoking pot. More disgraceful is the denial of marijuana for medical purposes.

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.