Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Congreve

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

William Congreve

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

Van Jones

Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal.

Wilfrid Sheed

Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.

Stephenie Meyer

No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever.

Stephen Colbert

Marijuana is a gateway drug that can lead to awful things, like Phish getting back together.

Tim Berners-Lee

AI is not just heading for our industry, it will radically change the machinery we use in marketing.

Thomas Lennon

Before any movie of yours gets made, it will be vetted by the studio's marketing department. So, you do have to answer the question: Who is your movie for?

Thomas Friedman

The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.

Victoria Principal

It used to be you wanted to marry up.

Hal Holbrook

Mark Twain cannot be defined.

Gordon B. Hinckley

This will be the most important decision of your life, the individual whom you marry...

Gordon B. Hinckley

Mutual respect, the soft answer, financial honesty with the Lord, prayer. "I do not hesitate to promise that if you will go to your homes and cultivate and nurture it among these four cornerstones, your lives will be happy."

Gordon B. Hinckley

The most important step you have made or will make in your life is marriage. Its consequences are many, so important and so everlasting.. No other decision will have such tremendous consequences for the future.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Marriage in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.

Gordon B. Hinckley

There cannot be peace where there is not trust; there cannot be freedom where there is not loyalty

Gordon B. Hinckley

If you will make your first concern the comfort, the well-being, and the happiness of your companion, sublimating any personal concern to that loftier goal, you will be happy, and your marriage will go on through eternity

Gerrit Smith

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

Herbert Spencer

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Herbert Spencer

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

Herbert Spencer

If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened by artificial aid, to ensure permanence of union; and if they would have more faith in this all would go well. To tie together by human law what God has tied together by passion, is about as wise as it would be to chain the moon to the earth lest the natural attraction existing between them should not be sufficient to prevent them flying asunder.

Herbert Spencer

The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more than a remnant of the old leaven of slavery. It is necessarily destructive of refined love; for how can a man continue to regard as his type of the ideal a being whom he has, be denying an equality of privilege with himself, degraded to something below himself?

Herman Melville

He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me around my waist, and said henceforth we were married.

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.