Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Congreve

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

Van Jones

Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal.

Richard Bach

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

Richard Bach

I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.

Robert Fulghum

The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage is a maze into which we wander - a maze that is best got through with a great companion.

Robert Fulghum

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Robert Frost

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Robert Benchley

Consider the number of young people all over the world who are getting married, day in and day out, for no other reason than thatsomeone of the opposite sex looks well in a green jersey or sings baritone, and then tell me that divorce has reached menacing proportions. The surface of divorce has not even been scratched yet.

Rita Rudner

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

Rita Rudner

The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.

Renee O'Connor

I always thought I would be a marine biologist because I love the sea - but considering the fact that I've always loved acting and the theater, I don't think I ever gave anything else much of a chance.

Thornton Wilder

I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.

Thomas More

Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.

Timbaland

It's probably hard to be married to me. It's not easy.

Timothy Leary

They've outlawed the number one vegetable on the planet.

Thomas Sprat

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

Thomas S. Monson

[The Lord] has indicated that the greatest work we parents can do is performed in our homes, and our homes can be heaven, particularly when our marriages are sealed in the house of God.

Robert Mitchum

The only effect that I ever noticed from smoking marijuana was a sort of mild sedative, a release of tension when I was overworking. It never made me boisterous of quarrelsome. If anything, it calmed me and reduced my activity.

Robert H. Schuller

Marriage may restrict your activity, but it increases your pleasure. It permits sex without shame, fear, or guilt.

Robert Greene

Compelling spectacles are not to reach a niche market, it could be for reaching a niche marketing but on a grand scale. This is for grand marketing.

Robert Anton Wilson

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

Robert Anton Wilson

[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara.

Richard M. Nixon

Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact... These young people have jumped the fence and found no cliff. And the disrespect for the possession laws fosters a disrespect for laws and the system in general... On top of this is the distinct impression among the youth that some police may use the marihuana laws to arrest people they don't like for other reasons, whether it be their politics, their hair style or their ethnic background.

Richard Gere

The idea that you're completing someone else in a marriage to me is death. That to me is a false start and most of us are usually taught that ... you've got to stand on your own. Then you can build something extraordinary.

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.

Valerie June

I dont marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.

Ugo Betti

A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.

Richard Dawkins

Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty dolphin-lengths in diameter! Yet we take a spider web for granted, as a nuisance in the house rather than as one of the wonders of the world. And think of the furore if Jane Goodall returned from Gombe stream with photographs of wild chimpanzees building their own houses, well roofed and insulated, of painstakingly selected stones neatly bonded and mortared! Yet caddis larvae, who do precisely that, command only passing interest.

Robert E. Lee

Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.

Robert Creeley

My wife and I lived all alone, contention was our only bone. I fought with her, she fought with me, and things went on right merrily. But now I live here by myself with hardly a damn thing on the shelf, and pass my days with little cheer since I have parted from my dear.

Rob Kampia

Public opinion has been evolving nationwide when it comes to marijuana policy, and Californians have always been ahead of the curve.

Rob Halford

Their brilliant audio expert, who is a marine biologist, should really be looking after Flipper