Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Jessica Parker

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

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.

Sanjay Gupta

[Marijuana] doesn't have a high potential for abuse, and there are very legitimate medical applications. In fact, sometimes marijuana is the only thing that works... [I]t is irresponsible not to provide the best care we can as a medical community, care that could involve marijuana. We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that.

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.

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.

Samuel Richardson

If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all women love, would last longer in the Husband than it generally does.

Samuel Richardson

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

Wanda Sykes

Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.

Wanda Sykes

As soon as you say 'I do,' you'll discover that marriage is like a car. Both of you might be sitting in the front seat, but only one of you is driving. And most marriages are more like a motorcycle than a car. Somebody has to sit in the back, and you have to yell just to be heard.

W. H. Auden

To make one, there must be two.

W. H. Auden

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

William Congreve

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.