Famous Quotes & Sayings

William S. Burroughs

I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness... When I speak of drug addiction I do not refer to keif, marijuana or any preparation of hashish, mescaline, Banisteriopsis caapi, LSD6, Sacred Mushrooms or any other drugs of the hallucinogen group... There is no evidence that the use of any hallucinogen results in physical dependence.

William S. Burroughs

For instance, they [The Federal Narcotics Bureau ] give out that marijuana is a harmful and habit-forming drug, and it simply isn't. They claim that you can get addicted to opiates with one shot, and you can't. They over-estimate the physical bad effects, and so forth.

William Lyon Phelps

The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.

William Lyon Phelps

Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.

William Lyon Phelps

The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.

Woodrow Wilson

...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.

Wilson Mizner

The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.

Will Rogers

What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis?

Will Rogers

I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain't.

Will Rogers

Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.

W. C. Fields

It was a marriage of convenience, as my father had a blister on his big toe and couldn't travel far to find a girl.

W. C. Fields

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

I've been married most of my life. And when you're married, you don't have sex.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

Zac Efron

I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.

Ziggy Marley

I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.

Yvonne Strahovski

Marriage is a very complicated machine. When it breaks down, you can't fix it with one screw.

William Drummond

What sweet delight a quiet life affords.

Will Smith

Marriage is the hardest thing you will ever do. The secret is removing divorce as an option. Anybody who gives themselves that option will get a divorce.

Warren Buffett

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.

Walter Bagehot

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

Walter Bagehot

A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.

Virginia Woolf

Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today -- that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

William Blake

She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.

William Blake

Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.

Wallis Simpson

A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.

Wallis Simpson

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

Wallis Simpson

The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.

Wallace Stegner

You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.

Samuel Richardson

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Samuel Richardson

The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it, sometimes without either fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and sometimes rejoice, sometimes repent, that she has gained that summit sola.

Samuel Richardson

Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.