Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jessica Savitch

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

Dennis Rodman

I don't need to sink the ball, I just need to do things that got me where I was. At 44, it is difficult. If it happens, it will be a mark in history.

Gray Davis

I am mandating that by March 15th every retail establishment in this state substantially reduce their outdoor lighting,

Hunter S. Thompson

Bill Clinton does not inhale marijuana, right? You bet. Like I chew on LSD but I don't swallow it.'

Howard Stern

I'm for legalizing marijuana. Why pick on those drugs? Valium is legal. You just go to a doctor and get it and overdose on it - what's the difference? Prozac, all that stuff, so why not marijuana? Who cares? It's something that grows out of the ground - why not? Go smoke a head of cabbage. I don't care what you smoke.

Honore de Balzac

When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

Honore de Balzac

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Honore de Balzac

A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

Honore de Balzac

To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

Honore de Balzac

Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

Honore de Balzac

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

Honore de Balzac

A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

Honore de Balzac

The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

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.

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.

I don't want to speak for how brokers do their business, ... Sometimes, in a market like this, a broker might get overzealous.

Michael Eisner

I don't worry about the stock price, ... I worry about what we do and how we do it, and if we do it well and if people like what we do, they'll come to our properties. If they come to our properties, we'll do well financially and the stock market reflects that.

I don't think the market is pricing in a big risk of a surprise.

I don't think the fiber-optic sector is dead. I wouldn't take it that far. The IPO market is just comatose.