Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

Jimmy Carter

I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.

Jimmy Carter

The importation and sale of marijuana is condemned and punished as a serious crime, but we accept as legitimate the manufacture and sale of an infinitely more addictive and deadly drug: the nicotine in cigarettes that cost the lives of 390,000 American citizens last year.

George Clooney

There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage...In the movies.

Lynda Resnick

Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans.

Clearly, there is something the market is responding to. But there is nothing specific that I've heard.

Steve Smith

Clearly, we want the technology to be adopted, ... we think it's superior. We're not getting royalties from the technology... We're not doing this to make money with the technology. We're doing it to get this market standardized and going.

Warren G. Bennis

Cicero talks, and people marvel; Ceasar talks and people march

Being quiet hasn't done much, so let me start talking and see what that does. Why not go all out and go all you can and try to get (to the post-season) like all those other teams. We want to be playing in March and April, too.

Tom McClintock

Can't you see that marriage is a fundamentally different institution? ... Marriage is the institution by which we propagate our species and inculcate our young." ()

Tom McClintock

Can't you see that marriage is a fundamentally different institution?" ()

Eugene Delacroix

A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.

Erma Bombeck

Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to get married.

Erma Bombeck

It would have been a wonderful wedding - had it not been mine.

Florynce Kennedy

prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married ...

Florence King

The American woman's concept of marriage is a clearly etched picture of something uninflated on the floor. A sleeping-bag withoutair, a beanbag without beans, a padded bra without pads. To work on it, you start pumping--what the magazines call "breathing life into your marriage." Do enough of this and the marriage becomes a kind of Banquo's ghost, a quasi-living entity.

Henny Youngman

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

Henny Youngman

Are you married? What do you do for agravation?

Henny Youngman

Most marriage failures are caused by failures marrying.

Henny Youngman

We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Freema Agyeman

I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing.

Franz Kafka

That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one's hand.

Erica Durance

I'm happily married but it's absolutely heavenly.

Erich Fromm

If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but the relationship is not one of love.

Erica Jong

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

Erica Jong

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

Erica Jong

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

Happy relationships depend not on finding the right person, but on being the right person.

I'm opposed to legalizing marijuana because it acts as a gateway drug.

Elsa Maxwell

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.