Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton Chekhov

If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.

Mary Wortley Montagu

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

Mohsin Hamid

Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.

Keegan-Michael Key

There Is Nothing More Dangerous On Planet Earth Than A Black Wife

Julian Barnes

As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.

Kevin Pietersen

She [my wife] has had a Caesarean, so she can't bend over. It's a good excuse [for not changing nappies], I suppose.

Nick Offerman

Let's just say I can never be cast again after Ron Swanson. Then I have a life of theater and woodworking and my wife to look forward to, and that doesn't make me anything but very happy.

Nick Hornby

I'd thought I'd live with my wife, but I couldn't find one.

John Milton

Black it stood as night, / Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, / And shook a dreadful dart.

Anne Rice

I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong I know what I do and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer do with it as you will.

Andrew Sullivan

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

D. H. Lawrence

Along the avenue of cypresses, All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices Of linen, go the chanting choristers, The priests in gold and black, the villagers. . . .

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.

Danny Glover

Democracy is about criticism. I didn't elect Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time. Period. The exceptionalism of a black U.S. President is not important to me. It's what he does. And who he has at the table. And what he does to change the world - that's what's important.

Curt Flood

I am pleased that God made my skin black - but I wish He had made it thicker.

Andre Leon Talley

The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

Alice Childress

And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.

Richard Fuller

Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts, and no instructions on how to operate the spaceship.

Brian Jacques

You love young ones and babes, I know this. The young will always befriend and admire you...all the young ones of the earth belong to you in friendship. Be good to them. —Breeze, to Sunflash the Mace

Margaret Mead

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

A letter is the most imperishable thing on earth.

Michele Bachmann

Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle.

Max Levchin

We're all put on Earth for a limited amount of time. Am I using in a way that is great, or good enough, or wasteful?

Maurice Strong

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

May Sarton

Unless the gentle inherit the earth, / There will be no earth.

Matthew Simpson

Wherever public worship has been established and regularly aintained, idolatry has vanished from the face of the earth. There is not now a temple to a heathen god where the word of God is read.