Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Howard

A lot of husbands want their wives out there with them. Until we start outshooting them.

Lynn Caine

Our society is set up so that most women lose their identities when their husbands die.

Samantha Harvey

We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?

Maya Angelou

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

John Gay

One wife is too much for most husbands to hear, / But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.

Julie Jameson

None of us walked into it blindly. Our husbands sat us down and told us what to expect.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.

Terry Cooper

It's nice to know that our husbands and sons won't be forgotten.

Rita Rudner

My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping.

William Shakespeare

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die.

Benjamin Franklin

Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.

Julie Gerberding

You may see the mortality rate go up -- but that's not necessarily because SARS per se is getting worse,

Craig Johnson

Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.

Bodhidharma

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

Elizabeth Edwards

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

Mitch Albom

I'm being made aware of my mortality all the time.

Mason Cooley

Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.

Menander

Conscience is a God to all mortals.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.

Alan Jackson

I've been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I'm more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel. Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I'm making.

Akshay Kumar

Why bother with Google when I have a wife who knows everything about everything!

Chris Black

My wife will tell you that I'm very particular and it's annoying for other people. I eat the same thing every day. I go to the gym at the same time every day. I go to L.A. all the time, so I take that same 9:30 flight. I will not take another one.

Chick Corea

My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.

Edith Wharton

As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep

Edith Wharton

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

David Riesman

The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward "culture" and away from his "materialistic" preoccupations.

David Brainerd

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.