Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.

Robert M. Pirsig

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

Virginia Woolf

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

Rebecca Solnit

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

Nelson Eddy

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Nawal El Saadawi

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

Mitchell Baker

I'm excited about mobile; clearly that's important. Mobile devices are kind of at the opposite end of PCs, in that PCs are pretty open and you can do a fair amount with them, but many mobile devices aren't. We're excited at the idea that we can make the same kind of contribution in the mobile space. So that's one thing coming down the pike.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

Marguerite Duras

She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.

Diana Williams

his wife recalled. ''I used to say, 'Charlie's asleep.' He was always so calm.

Virchand Gandhi

…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi

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.

Tori Amos

Anything a wife should do, I'm terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I'll try.

William Blake

I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

Ryan Reynolds

I dragged my wife from our honeymoon in Africa and landed her in Ontario, Canada, when it was -40 degrees,

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Rodney Dangerfield

When I told my wife she was lousy in bed - she went out - she got a second opinion.

Nancy Sinatra

You keep lyin' when you ought to be truthin'.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Despair is infidelity and death.

Natalia Ginzburg

No adultery is bloodless.

Pope Francis

God’s faithfulness is stronger than our unfaithfulness and our infidelities.

Elvis Presley

I was almost always true to you.

David Allan Coe

Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray to God she'll never know.

Charles Caleb Colton

The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.

Carolyn Wells

The wages of sin is alimony.

Bryan Adams

She says that her love for me would never die, but that would change if she found out about you and I.