Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wilberforce

The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint

Richard J. Needham

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

Richard Baxter

Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.

Richard Baxter

Prayer is the breath of the new creature.

Tryon Edwards

Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

Truman Capote

all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.

Woody Harrelson

A moment of realization is worth a thousand prayers.

William McKinley

Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth

William James

We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should not pray. Others give reasons why we should pray. Very little is said of the reason we do pray. The reason is simple: We pray because we cannot help praying.

William Wycherley

I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.

Rodney Dangerfield

My wife she's fat. Why, if she lost a few pounds, she'd be perfectly round.

Rodney Dangerfield

I went to look for a used car and found my wife's dress in the back seat.

Rodney Dangerfield

Never tell your wife she's bad in bed. She'll go out and get a second opinion.

Rodney Dangerfield

Never guess your wife's size. Just buy anything marked petite and hold on to the receipt.

Ronnie Wood

I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd.

Rod Stewart

You know my wife, she's 6 ft 1 she can beat anyone up.

Rod Stewart

She was the first woman who left me. (on his former wife, Rachel Hunter, shortly after their break-up)

Warren Jeffs

So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God.

Ryan Stiles

When it comes to making love, I may not be the best, but I'm damn gouda.

Rowan Williams

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It's as though I went on and on about a woman I adored instead of making love to her.

Diana Gabaldon

A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded. No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. "Very carefully," I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how old that one is, I thought.

Rupert Holmes

If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape, you're the love that I've looked for, come with me and escape.

Tom Robbins

There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.

Tom Robbins

Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end. Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm. There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.

Spike Milligan

We were making love in the back of a truck and we got carried away.

Isabel Allende

When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.