Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Marie Presley

I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.

John Updike

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

John Sununu

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.

John Stuart Mill

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

John Selden

Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.

John O'Hara

In every marriage the wife has to keep her mouth shut about at least one small thing her husband does that disgusts her.

James F. Amos

The Marine Corps has been, and will continue to be, America's Expeditionary Force in Readiness - ready to respond to today's crisis, with today's Marine forces, today.

Laurence Sterne

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

Larry Hagman

Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.

Kylie Bax

I started modeling because I thought it would be a good stepping stone for what I was studying (marketing), but since I started it I never had any intention to fail.

Gary Chapman

Many couples have never learned the tremendous power of verbally affirming each other.

Frederick W. Smith

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Tell that to the Marines!

George Friedman

A research division develops marketing material for its deal makers. We have no policy position. If you have a policy position you can't possibly forecast.

Jon Bon Jovi

Find an independent woman-who loves you for you and will be your best friend. I got it right the first time and was very, very lucky.

Jon Bon Jovi

As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."

Johnny Carson

Never marry a girl named 'Marie' who used to be known as 'Murray'.

Lynn Redgrave

I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.

Lu Xun

Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character; it is a combination of mother and daughter.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

Coral reefs represent some of the worlds most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the seas most exquisite species will not survive.

Nicolas Roeg

In marketing, the familiar is everything.

Nicolas Roeg

But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.

Nicolas Roeg

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.

Nicolas Roeg

Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.

Nicolas Chamfort

Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.

Nicolas Chamfort

Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.

Nick Vujicic

If you’re not happy single, your not gonna be happy married.

Nora Ephron

Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook!

Nora Roberts

Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].

Nikolai Gogol

We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

Nikola Tesla

Inventors don't have time for married life.

Nicole Kidman

I got married really fast and really young.