Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Wood Krutch

The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.

Joseph Heller

I couldn't see tying myself down with a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.

Joseph Campbell

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

Minnie Pearl

Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

Paula Radcliffe

In the marathon anything can happen

Peter Tosh

Legalize it, and I will advertise it.

Peter Ustinov

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

Peter Biskind

Warren Beatty once quipped that the best time for a wedding was noon, because if the marriage didn't work, you hadn't screwed up the entire day.

Penelope Cruz

I never grew up dreaming about a wedding - I don't think about things like that. I don't know how to explain it. All I care about is to be happy.

Peter Sagal

Ben & Jerry's ice cream will try to make some marijuana ice cream, resulting in thousands of people simultaneously getting and curing ice cream headaches.

Peter Pace

Marines are very good at fighting... And if Gen. Franks wants fighters on the ground and he puts Marines in, he'll have what he wants.

Pearl Bailey

The deed of love is stronger than words

Phyllis McGinley

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Phyllis McGinley

Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because that implies equal gain. And every right-thinking woman knows the profit in matrimony is by all odds hers.

Phyllis McGinley

In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path.

Phyllis Diller

The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.

Harlan Coben

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

Gustave Flaubert

Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.

Gray Davis

We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.

John M. McHugh

We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.

John Leguizamo

Bryan Cranston is generous, he's funny. When we did a wedding scene [in The Infiltrator ], at the end of the movie with a big set piece, he put the veil off the bride, he put it on, he pretended like we were getting married, he's just a goof.

Jimmy Carr

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

Justin Vernon

My favorite idea is doing an all-night tent show starring my friend's band Marijuana Deathsquads, where everyone would wear super-loud headphones, and there would be tons of subs and lights. It'd be really dope.

Justin Timberlake

We have a couple of rules in our relationship. The first rule is that I make her feel like she's getting everything. The second rule is that I actually do let her have her way in everything. And, so far, it's working.

Katherine Anne Porter

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

Katharine Whitehorn

A good marriage is like Dr Who's Tardis: small and banal from the outside but spacious and interesting from within.

Katharine Hepburn

I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract.

Katharine Hepburn

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Katharine Hepburn

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Judith Viorst

Not listening is probably the commonest unkindness of married life, and one that creates - more devastatingly than an eternity of forgotten birthdays and misguided Christmas gifts - an atmosphere of not loving and not caring.

Josh Mandel

When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with.

Josh Mandel

I served two tours in Iraq, in the Marine Corps.

Josh McDowell

What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any negative character trait will be intensified in a marriage relationship, because you will feel free to let your guard down -- that person has committed himself to you and you no longer have to worry about scaring him off.