Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mae West

Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.

Michael Herr

What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.

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.

Theodore Roosevelt

...let men express the intense admiration, which I share with all other Americans, of the record made by the Marines.

Theodore Roosevelt

We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.

Theodor Reik

In our civilization men are afraid they will not be man enough, and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Margaret Mead

No matter how free divorce, how frequently marriages break up, in most societies there is the assumption of permanent mating, of the idea that the marriage should last as long as both live. . . . No known society has ever invented a form of marriage strong enough to stick that did not contain the 'till death us do part' assumption.

Margaret Mead

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

King Vidor

Take it from me, marriage isn't a word - it's a sentence.

Kin Hubbard

Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband.