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.

Bob Hill

Ray looks awful. Ray is not good. You could just look at him and tell he's sick without asking. We've got to get him to Miami and get him to bed and see if we can't get him ready to play (today).

Mal Peet

I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.

Robert Evan

So she can have us both by her bedside at night.

Ellen Hollman

I actually play piano and violin, but I don't have a passion for it. It didn't make me wake up in the morning wanting to do it, or go to bed thinking about it.

Kaley Cuoco

When I moved in, I said, 'I don't care how this makes me look or sound: I am converting one of these bedrooms into a shoe closet.' It's become more of a dressing room, but one wall is shoes in their perfect cubbies.

Nicollette Sheridan

When I was 11, I had to be in bed by 7 p.m. That wasn't fair.

Dom DeLuise

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.

David Owens

As soon as she pulled up the picture, I knew it was Sommer. I went into my bedroom and kind of cried and Brittany and Sommer, they both talked to each other until about 2 in the morning on instant messages.

Tonight, when we were eating dinner, Marta said something that really knocked me for a loop. She said, ""I love carrots."" ""Good,"" I said as I gritted my teeth real hard. ""Then maybe you and carrots would like to go into the bedroom and have sex!"" They didn't, but maybe they will sometime, and I can watch.

Brandon Sanderson

I am what the universe made me to be, my dear.

Billy Carter

The press made me something I really wasn't and I tried to live up to what they made me.

Shalom Harlow

Nobody responds to being made to feel judged.

George R. R. Martin

You were made to be kissed, often and well.

Franz Kafka

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

Bede Griffiths

I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

C. S. Lewis

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

George Herbert

Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made.

Henry David Thoreau

The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses.