Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Barbara Mertz

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

Jane Hamilton

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

Susan B. Anthony

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

Susan B. Anthony

I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!

Tracy McMillan

Yes, I have 'failed' at marriage - a lot.

Brigham Young

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Dennis Rodman

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.

Brad Pitt

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

Ricky Gervais

Atheism is a belief system”, is like saying “not going skiing, is a hobby.

Charles Spurgeon

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.

Thomas Hobbes

I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Do not make gods in your own images.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

Rumi

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

Jasper Carrott

Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.

Michael Chertoff

It is going to be an unhappy number,

Robert Sheckley

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

Chris Richards

I'm unhappy because we just lost. We thought we had it in our hands, but we just didn't execute.

Pat Conroy

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

George MacDonald

But it is not the rich person only who is under the domination of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.

Helen McCrory

If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?