Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force.

Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.

If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate.

A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.

Orson Welles

My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the rule of law was corrupted at that moment. Then came Vietnam, and marijuana, which clearly shouldn't be illegal, but is. If you go to jail for ten years in Texas when you light up a joint, who are you? You're a lawbreaker. It's just like Prohibition was. When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society, you see?

Olive Schreiner

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

O. Henry

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

Michael Caine

I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others properties.

Merle Shain

Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.

Merle Shain

We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night.

Merle Shain

I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well as commitment for all time. The kind that is essential for loving marriages - and love affairs, as well - is a commitment to preserving the essential quality of your partner's soul, adding to them as a person rather than taking away.

Merle Haggard

'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is.

Merle Haggard

We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee, we don't take trips on LSD. We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street, we like living right and free.

Melina Mercouri

There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.

Mason Cooley

Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single.

Mason Cooley

Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages.

Mason Cooley

The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.

Mason Cooley

Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.

Mason Cooley

Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer.

Mary Archer

I think we explored the further reaches of 'for better or for worse' than some other married couples.

Mary Augusta Ward

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

Mary Augusta Ward

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

Mary Astell

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

Michael Freeman

As good marketers, we like to tinker with things and make them better.

Menander

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.

Martin Sorrell

It doesn't make much sense and it's nil premium. They're going to have co-CEOs...which is a very uncomfortable structure.

Martin Sorrell

Marketing is an investment, not a cost.

Marie Dressler

I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them.

Ted Olson

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

Theodore Parker

Marriages are best made of dissimilar material.

Theodore Parker

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

Henry Ford

The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford.