Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hortense Odlum

... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,--if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.

Hank Aaron

Making the majors is not as hard as staying there, staying interested day after day. It's like being married. The hardest part is to stay married.

Harville Hendrix

Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union.

James E. Faust

In the enriching of marriage, the big things are the little things. There must be constant appreciation for each other and thoughtful demonstration of gratitude. A couple must encourage and help each other grow. Marriage is a joint quest for the good, the beautiful, and the divine

James E. Faust

A husband should always try to treat his wife with the greatest courtesy and respect, holding her in the highest esteem. He should speak to her in a kind and a soft manner, showing his love by word and deed. As she feels this love and tenderness she will mirror it and return it tenfold.

James Brolin

I feel like we were married from the moment we sat down there.

James Branch Cabell

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

James Brady

There was always talk of espirit de corps, of being gung ho, and that must have been a part of it. Better, tougher training, more marksmanship on the firing range, the instant obedience to orders seared into men in boot camp.

James Garner

I did a little bit of cocaine in the Eighties, courtesy of John Belushi, but fortunately I didn’t like it. But I smoked marijuana for 50 years and I don’t know where I’d be without it. It opened my mind and now it eases my arthritis. After decades of research I’ve concluded that marijuana should be legal and alcohol illegal.

J. R. R. Tolkien

He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.

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.

Frank Zappa

I'm not going to be Bill Clinton and say I never inhaled. I did inhale. I liked tobacco a lot better.

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

Jerry Lawler

If Mark Henry was the Titanic, the iceberg would've sank!

Jeff Bezos

The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies The right way to respond to this if you are a company is to put the vast majority of your energy, attention and dollars into building a great product or service and put a smaller amount into shouting about it, marketing it.

Georges Duhamel

The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that he possesses.

Georges Cuvier

Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.

Jack Wild

I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

Christopher Guest

I'm married to the person I fell in love with.

Christopher Hitchens

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Marketing just got hard.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Now, if you truly understand how marketing works today, you know there is no individual six-month campaign; there's only the 365-day campaign, during which you produce new content daily.