Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honore de Balzac

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Harville Hendrix

Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union.

James E. Faust

In the enriching of marriage, the big things are the little things. There must be constant appreciation for each other and thoughtful demonstration of gratitude. A couple must encourage and help each other grow. Marriage is a joint quest for the good, the beautiful, and the divine

James E. Faust

A husband should always try to treat his wife with the greatest courtesy and respect, holding her in the highest esteem. He should speak to her in a kind and a soft manner, showing his love by word and deed. As she feels this love and tenderness she will mirror it and return it tenfold.

James Brolin

I feel like we were married from the moment we sat down there.

James Branch Cabell

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

James Brady

There was always talk of espirit de corps, of being gung ho, and that must have been a part of it. Better, tougher training, more marksmanship on the firing range, the instant obedience to orders seared into men in boot camp.

James Garner

I did a little bit of cocaine in the Eighties, courtesy of John Belushi, but fortunately I didn’t like it. But I smoked marijuana for 50 years and I don’t know where I’d be without it. It opened my mind and now it eases my arthritis. After decades of research I’ve concluded that marijuana should be legal and alcohol illegal.

J. R. R. Tolkien

He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

A Marxist has never written a good novel.

Isaac Asimov

Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

Irving Azoff

Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.

Before one-to-one marketing was in vogue, Doc was doing it. He's always done it.

Certainly, the market is going to be pretty rocky for a while. We're going to see severe volatility in the near-term.

Kenneth Bacon

By far, the Navy and the Marines have been the most successful at public affairs.

Nancy Pelosi

But I would say, you know, if you're getting married - why are you getting married? Why would you get married? Why would anybody get married?

Morgan Freeman

Marketing only really works with word of mouth.

Morgan Freeman

Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible....Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor.

Milan Kundera

Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's.

Mike Mason

It is something that is just there, and it is huge, and everything has been built around it, and wherever one happens to be going to the fridge, to bed, to the bathroom, or out the front door - the tree has to be taken into account. It cannot be gone through; it must respectfully be gone around... it is beautiful, unique, exotic: but also. Let's face it, it is at times an enormous inconvenience.

Joseph Addison

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Joseph Addison

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Joseph Addison

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

Joseph Addison

Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.

Jose Saramago

No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

Jonathan Winters

I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

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.