Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Pryor

I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.

Richard Pryor

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

Sarah Fielding

There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled The Language Contradictory.... In the former, however plain the object of satire may be exhibited to the whole company, yet there always remains some little covering.... But in this last method, the defiance becomes more open and the impetuosity with which these contradictions are uttered (although the subjects of them are often of the most indifferent nature) evidently prove that they arise from passion.

Sarah Fielding

I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.

Sarah Fielding

I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any man's power for life only from a present capricious inclination.

Sarah Fielding

I often used to think myself in the case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the chase as if some unheard-of blessing was to crown his success, finds at last all he has got by his labor is a stinking nauseous animal. But my condition was yet worse than his; for he leaves the loathsome wretch to be torn by his hounds, whilst I was obliged to fondle mine, and meanly pretend him to be the object of my love.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I don't feel that my life, my professional life, is married to a reliance upon Instagram.

Roseanne Barr

My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.

Roseanne Barr

Legalize hemp and allow women to grow it and make food, clothing and housing for pennies from it and legalize marijuana too. Let women integrate their divided consciousness with a natural herb instead of doctors' pills that kill the liver.

Roseanne Barr

Oh, hi. I been married thirteen years, and lemme tell you, it's a thrill to be out of the house. I never get out of the house. I stay home all the time. I never do anything fun 'cause I'm a housewife. I hate the word "housewife." I prefer to be called "domestic goddess.

Roseanne Barr

The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.

Roger Wicker

Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.

Rod Laver

I often surprise myself. You can't plan some shots that go in, not unless you're on marijuana, and the only grass I'm partial to is Wimbledon's.

Rod Parsley

It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.

Rod Steiger

Is this a proposal? I'm married now, you know.

Robin Thicke

I'd like to collaborate with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige.

Robert Smith

I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.

Robert Lowell

Life begins to happen. My hoppped up husband drops his home disputes, and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes

Sara Shepard

You hear about those stories where a person is married to someone and they have another family - that's pretty much unforgivable!

Sanjay Gupta

I am not backing down on medical marijuana; I am doubling down.

Sandra Postel

Water is the basis of life and the blue arteries of the earth! Everything in the non-marine environment depends on freshwater to survive.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

Samuel Johnson

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Samuel Johnson

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Washington Irving

No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.

Voltaire

To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

Voltaire

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

William Feather

A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.

William Butler Yeats

Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there....

William Butler Yeats

... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.

Walter Savage Landor

You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.

Winston Churchill

I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.

Willie Aames

I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.